The place of grandpa FX8350 in a 2018 Universe.

[eidairaman1]

Asus Sabertooth 990FX R2.0

Good board, tool for 5.0OCs lol.

Get another matching module of ram. 2011/2012 tech is still worthy.

 

[GoldenX]

What about an undervolt experiment?

 

[Mac2580]

Sorry for necroing thread but just wanted to clarify gaming performance. I have a 7700k (1060 6gb) as well as a FX 8300 (1050 ti 4gb) 8gb ram(4x2). I built the pc for lanning and have it running at 3.6ghz x 8 at 1.2V, on a MSI 970 G43. Fifa 19 runs at 1080p 60fps ultra msaa x2. Dota 2 all max borderless window 125 fps in teamfight. Forza Horizon 4, runs at 60fps medium graphics, dips to 50 offroad. GTA V normal preset holds 60fps but dips to 40fps if you crash car. Very poor in older single threaded games though, company of heroes and age of empires 3 run at 40fps. Impressed with performance, built both pcs in 2017. Easy 60fps at max graphics in the games i built it for (dota 2, fortnite, overwatch, csgo)

 

[king of swag187]

Even a modern day Celeron is fine for office tasks. If you mean gaming, the 8350 holds on but barely, easily beat by almost all modern CPU's, and most of the decent Intel quad cores of the time. This is mainly due to the FX not having a proper 8 cores and sharing resources, as well as just terrible IPC

 

[eidairaman1]

Even a modern day Celeron is fine for office tasks. If you mean gaming, the 8350 holds on but barely, easily beat by almost all modern CPU's, and most of the decent Intel quad cores of the time. This is mainly due to the FX not having a proper 8 cores and sharing resources, as well as just terrible IPC

Lie

 

[GoldenX]

Please don't go hurting FX user's feelings.
Imagine upgrading from a Pentium 4 to a Pentium D, to a Phenom 1, to an FX.

 

[king of swag187]

Lie

No lies here, just the cold hard truth. The fact of the matter is, a simple 2500k will crush the 8350 simply because of far superior IPC and design, while consuming less power and running cooler.

 

[Melvis]

I only just upgraded my FX-8350 System to the 2700X and in all honesty I could of easily stayed on my FX 8350 for another year. I didnt notice any real difference in day to day task like what your asking, showed a improvement in only a few games that heavily use the CPU, but over all not a massive difference for me at 1440P, the biggest difference is when I trans-code shows/movies the 2700x is 3x faster then the 8350. If I was you just stick with it for another year and then maybe upgrade? I should of just Doubled my RAM on my AM3 rig and called it a day for anther year.

@ king of swag187 I have a i7 2600 and if you dont OC the 8350 will beat it in multi threaded apps (yes ive tested it) but the 2600 will win in single threaded apps. Over all there very close to eachother when at there stock speeds and I know that the 2550K is about as fast as a 1055T at multi threaded apps, but again wins at single threaded apps.

 

[Splinterdog]

I noticed a huge difference moving from an FX8320 (o/c to 4Ghz) to a 2600X in all respects, but mainly games which now fly along.

 

[eidairaman1]

I only just upgraded my FX-8350 System to the 2700X and in all honesty I could of easily stayed on my FX 8350 for another year. I didnt notice any real difference in day to day task like what your asking, showed a improvement in only a few games that heavily use the CPU, but over all not a massive difference for me at 1440P, the biggest difference is when I trans-code shows/movies the 2700x is 3x faster then the 8350. If I was you just stick with it for another year and then maybe upgrade? I should of just Doubled my RAM on my AM3 rig and called it a day for anther year.

@ king of swag187 I have a i7 2600 and if you dont OC the 8350 will beat it in multi threaded apps (yes ive tested it) but the 2600 will win in single threaded apps. Over all there very close to eachother when at there stock speeds and I know that the 2550K is about as fast as a 1055T at multi threaded apps, but again wins at single threaded apps.

Yup but the 8350 can overclock as well.

 

[Vya Domus]

Imagine upgrading from a Pentium 4 to a Pentium D, to a Phenom 1, to an FX.

The worst choices there would be by far the Pentium 4 and Pentium D.

 

[cucker tarlson]

Despite constant negative covfefe, fx 8350 is still a good utility cpu, in purely multithreaded use it's gonna keep up with older intel cpus quite well

https://www.purepc.pl/procesory/test_procesora_intel_core_i7_8700k_premiera_coffee_lake?page=0,10

https://www.purepc.pl/procesory/test_procesora_intel_core_i7_8700k_premiera_coffee_lake?page=0,29

https://www.purepc.pl/procesory/test_procesora_intel_core_i7_8700k_premiera_coffee_lake?page=0,28


but if you're thinking of paring it with a new gen GPU and playing at +60 fps then forget about it, it's about the worst cpu for gaming as you can have.

 

[eidairaman1]

I noticed a huge difference moving from an FX8320 (o/c to 4Ghz) to a 2600X in all respects, but mainly games which now fly along.

Considering that was the bclk of the 8350, turbo was 4.2GHz. 4.5+ is where the 8350 gets moving along.

Very basic tasks you could run at 3.0 lol.

 

[Mac2580]

but if you're thinking of paring it with a new gen GPU and playing at +60 fps then forget about it, it's about the worst cpu for gaming as you can have.

Yeah i agree with the above completely. My use case was very specific, and only two choices were G3258 (dual core) or fx8300(With mobo and ram). I should add that GTA V, Fifa 19 and Forza were purchased to play on my i7, I just found it surprising that they actually worked on fx 8300 given its poor IPC and 3.6ghz clocks using literally the worst motherboard possible. Nowadays there are 2 core 4 threaded pentiums (possibly ryzens as well) which will certainly perform better gaming wise. Pricing of both systems (In south african rands) in the image is a good indicator of why i was impressed. j

 

[Assimilator]

Answer to the original question asked by the OP is "in a dumpster".

 

[GoldenX]

Answer to the original question asked by the OP is "in a dumpster".

Like the Intel quad core HEDT processors.

 

[Gorstak]

FX8350 may be old but may still shine with a few new games coming out, which make use of more threads. I don't really see a need for you to upgrade, unless you intend to change your screen. But that would demand a new gpu, and in that case it would be wise to get a new psu, and that's a whole new PC.

 

[Durvelle27]

I think the FX 8350 was already a grandpa at launch and already long in the tooth

But it’s definitely a fun chip to OC for sure.

I got mine upto 5.7GHx on a cheap ASUS M5A97 EVO Board

 

[Assimilator]

I think the FX 8350 was already a grandpa at launch and already long in the tooth

But it’s definitely a fun chip to OC for sure.

I got mine upto 5.7GHx on a cheap ASUS M5A97 EVO Board

How many nuclear reactors did you need to power it?

 

[Durvelle27]

How many nuclear reactors did you need to power it?

Just one paired with a R9 290X

 

[XenForo]

My FX8350 handles any game I can throw at it - the cpu never reaches max in any game. My FPS stay at around 60. Its the video card that makes the difference.

ASUS M5A99FX Pro R2.0
FX 8350
Cool Master Hyper 212 EVO (Push pull configuration)
G.Skill 2x8GB Sniper 2133mhz
MSI GTX770 SLI

 

[Gorstak]

Nice machine, also not very expensive if you buy it these days.

 

[RadFX]

Read this at Techspot - https://www.techspot.com/review/1474-ryzen-vs-older-budget-cpus/

I'm running an AMD Fx 9370 underclocked and undervolted at 4.4ghz/1.375V with a Radeon Vega Frontier and it's just fine. Yes I could better performance with a new Ryzen cpu but do I really need it? No. I game at 4k&5K...mostly older titles with mods.