- Apr 11, 2013
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Hi guys,
It's about time I move on from my ageing Core 2 Quad, and my feeling is that when AMD react to Haswell, I'm probably going to hop on with their system and a FX-8320 or FX-8350. They're cheaper, for one thing, the socket will have more support so I'm not staring at another motherboard replacement, and the extra physical cores seem to be good for on-the-fly encoding of gaming video and streaming, where that isn't giving the CPU the most even of workloads
I just have a few questions, which I haven't been able to satisfy through my own research, and was wondering if you all could help. Forgive me for not reading through page after page of forum threads, but it gets a bit much, sometimes!
- I've seen that the TDP for the FX-8350 in particular might be getting broken even at stock clocks, and was wondering if this had been diffinitively proven, or if mitigating circumstances with motherboard etc. was the reasoning behind this?
- With that in mind, how regular is it to be able to undervolt the CPU, and actually lower the power consumption at stock clocks?
- With an 8320, I know they do overclock well enough to 4Ghz. Is Turbo also something which can be modified, so that I could get an exact equivalent to an 8350, and save my pennies? Would I then be right to expect 8350 levels of power consumption?
- I'm asking lots about power, because I have a fairly recent 500W PSU, which is serving me well. With a stock 8350 and a mildly OC Radeon 7850, this should all be plenty under 500W when gaming, shouldn't it?
- This is all coming to around £250 for me. Is there any particularly good argument why I shouldn't go down this path at this price point? As far as I'm aware, an i5 would be either much more expensive and/or not have the streaming/recording quite as well covered.
Thanks in advance, and again, apologies for being a bit dim with all of this!
It's about time I move on from my ageing Core 2 Quad, and my feeling is that when AMD react to Haswell, I'm probably going to hop on with their system and a FX-8320 or FX-8350. They're cheaper, for one thing, the socket will have more support so I'm not staring at another motherboard replacement, and the extra physical cores seem to be good for on-the-fly encoding of gaming video and streaming, where that isn't giving the CPU the most even of workloads
I just have a few questions, which I haven't been able to satisfy through my own research, and was wondering if you all could help. Forgive me for not reading through page after page of forum threads, but it gets a bit much, sometimes!
- I've seen that the TDP for the FX-8350 in particular might be getting broken even at stock clocks, and was wondering if this had been diffinitively proven, or if mitigating circumstances with motherboard etc. was the reasoning behind this?
- With that in mind, how regular is it to be able to undervolt the CPU, and actually lower the power consumption at stock clocks?
- With an 8320, I know they do overclock well enough to 4Ghz. Is Turbo also something which can be modified, so that I could get an exact equivalent to an 8350, and save my pennies? Would I then be right to expect 8350 levels of power consumption?
- I'm asking lots about power, because I have a fairly recent 500W PSU, which is serving me well. With a stock 8350 and a mildly OC Radeon 7850, this should all be plenty under 500W when gaming, shouldn't it?
- This is all coming to around £250 for me. Is there any particularly good argument why I shouldn't go down this path at this price point? As far as I'm aware, an i5 would be either much more expensive and/or not have the streaming/recording quite as well covered.
Thanks in advance, and again, apologies for being a bit dim with all of this!