I am going to side with the statements made by MiddleOfTheRoad in regards of the Fx and Wcg. I run a Wcg on 5 Rigs. 3 are Fx based (8350 @ 4.4, 8320 @ 4.4 and a 8150 stock) 1 Phenom II x6 1090t at 3.5 and a i7 920 at 3.5. The Fx 83xx's are of course pretty close in ppd. The 8150 and the Phenom are pretty close in ppd with the 920 Close to them just about a 100 ppd difference. Now the kicker is, the 920 rig is the only one under Linux. If I was to put the other 4 under Linux they would totally demolish the 920 as Linux itself is good for close to a 25% increase in ppd. I am in the process of building 2 more Fx rigs to crunch on and a third in the mix to replace the i7. Point of all this, these price cuts if they will apply to the 8320/8350 will matter to the WCg community. Users running multiple rigs just won't buy the fastest intel rig because it is just not cost effective.
You'll gain a lot by moving the FX's to Ubuntu:
This is my FX 8320 at stock clock -- only change was OS:
I moved from Windows 7 Pro 64 Bit to Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 64 Bit
Windows 7:
8/6/2014 5:06:19 PM | | Starting BOINC client version 7.2.47 for windows_x86_64
8/6/2014 5:06:19 PM | | log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task
8/6/2014 5:06:19 PM | | Libraries: libcurl/7.25.0 OpenSSL/1.0.1 zlib/1.2.6
8/6/2014 5:06:19 PM | | Data directory: C\ProgramData\BOINC
8/6/2014 5:06:19 PM | | Processor: 8 AuthenticAMD AMD FX(tm)-8320 Eight-Core Processor [Family 21 Model 2 Stepping 0]
8/6/2014 5:06:30 PM | | Running CPU benchmarks
8/6/2014 5:06:31 PM | | Suspending computation - CPU benchmarks in progress
8/6/2014 5:07:02 PM | | Benchmark results:
8/6/2014 5:07:02 PM | | Number of CPUs: 8
8/6/2014 5:07:02 PM |
| 1621 floating point MIPS (Whetstone) per CPU
8/6/2014 5:07:02 PM | |
5947 integer MIPS (Dhrystone) per CPU
Ubuntu:
Tue 05 Aug 2014 03:22:41 PM EDT | | Starting BOINC client version 7.2.7 for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
Tue 05 Aug 2014 03:22:41 PM EDT | | log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task
Tue 05 Aug 2014 03:22:41 PM EDT | | Libraries: libcurl/7.32.0 OpenSSL/1.0.1e zlib/1.2.8 libidn/1.28 librtmp/2.3
Tue 05 Aug 2014 03:22:41 PM EDT | | Data directory: /var/lib/boinc-client
Tue 05 Aug 2014 03:22:41 PM EDT | | Processor: 8 AuthenticAMD AMD FX(tm)-8320 Eight-Core Processor [Family 21 Model 2 Stepping 0]
Tue 05 Aug 2014 03:22:41 PM EDT | | OS: Linux: 3.11.0-19-lowlatency
Tue 05 Aug 2014 03:23:30 PM EDT | | Running CPU benchmarks
Tue 05 Aug 2014 03:23:30 PM EDT | | Suspending computation - CPU benchmarks in progress
Tue 05 Aug 2014 03:24:01 PM EDT | | Benchmark results:
Tue 05 Aug 2014 03:24:01 PM EDT | | Number of CPUs: 8
Tue 05 Aug 2014 03:24:01 PM EDT | |
2510 floating point MIPS (Whetstone) per CPU
Tue 05 Aug 2014 03:24:01 PM EDT | |
11344 integer MIPS (Dhrystone) per CPU