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    FX-6300 or FX-8350!?

    I have an AM3+ motherboard with my old phenom II x3 720be (I bought an AM3+ board anticipating bulldozer but then on reading reviews changed my mind). The 720be processor is really starting to feel its age a bit now. Out of the new piledrivers should I go for the FX-6300 or FX-8350? The FX-6300 would probably be more than adequate for my needs but I don't like upgrading too often and I can afford the FX-8350 so is it worth stretching to, to be future proofed a tad longer!?

    Also I currently have pretty low end custom watercooling but after Christmas I will have pretty high end custom watercooling so I would like to go for a processor that will get the most out of my watercooling in terms of overclocking.

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    Re: FX-6300 or FX-8350!?

    What motherboard do you have and are you overclocking?? What are the current specfications of the system?? What are you using the system for?? Have you tried unlocking and overclocking your current CPU??

    ATM,the FX CPUs are around £10 to £15 more expensive due to short supplies. The FX6300 for around £100 or an FX8320 for around £120 to £130 look the best options IMHO. The FX8350 might overclock a bit further. However,if you are gaming an overclocked FX6300, and the money saved against going for an FX8300 series CPU could be put towards a better graphics card.

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    Re: FX-6300 or FX-8350!?

    I have a GA-990FXA-UD5 (should have gone ASUS or UD7 really ... oh well). I will overclock ... at the moment I only have a single 120mm radiator but after Christmas I am gonna pick up a 420mm radiator. With that much cooling potential it seems a bit dumb not to overclock as much as possible.

    As for what I do on my computer ... I pretty much do everything on it and spend a lot of time on it. However nothing very extreme. I play games, watch movies, browse the internet, emails etc etc etc probably the most taxing thing I do is extract stuff with winrar and some of the files I extract are fairly large so it would be nicer if that went faster. I also transfer files between HDDs fairly often and it would be nice if that went faster be obviously the bottle neck there is the HDDs themselves.

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    Re: FX-6300 or FX-8350!?

    The FX6300 being a cheaper CPU will enable you to put more budget towards upgrading your graphics card. OTH,with your water cooling,you might be able to get your FX8350 closer to 5GHZ although with massive power consumpton!! The FX6300 seems to be not bad for overclocking too:

    http://www.pcper.com/reviews/Process...-Overclocking-

    Even with a cheaper cooler the,the FX6300 and FX8350 series appear to be decent overclockers when compared to the FX6100 and FX8150.

    I also expect the FX6300 to produce less heat too when overclocked,so I wonder if you could hit higher frequencies??

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    Re: FX-6300 or FX-8350!?

    Well I'll see how money is around xmas if it is tight and prices haven't settled 3 module it is if not 4 modules it is. TBH my x3 720be on 3.6 does everything I need it to do just fancy something new more than anything (the 4th core is borked on it so that is a no go).

    If i get a good overclocker I'll be sure to post my results .

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    Re: FX-6300 or FX-8350!?

    8350, it's worth it IMO. Got good clocks on mine and really decent heat levels regardless of cooling.

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    Re: FX-6300 or FX-8350!?

    It is also worth considering the 8320 as there have been a few cheap ones about recently and if you get a good overclocker your laughing. I was going to get one, but my motherboard can only support upto the 6300

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    Re: FX-6300 or FX-8350!?

    get fx-6300 best for money, or get 8320

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    Re: FX-6300 or FX-8350!?

    New games can use the extra cores on the 8320/50, so it's worth it if you can afford the extra.

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    Re: FX-6300 or FX-8350!?

    The 8320 is the better buy rather than the 8350. A good one will clock just as well as a 8350. Horrendous power consumption when overclocked though.

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    Re: FX-6300 or FX-8350!?

    Quote Originally Posted by pastymuncher View Post
    The 8320 is the better buy rather than the 8350. A good one will clock just as well as a 8350. Horrendous power consumption when overclocked though.
    Have you seen evidence of that? AMD seem quite good at binning their silicon, so I would expect "a good one" will be sold as an 8350 (which is why I bought one and not an 8320). Never seen hard data one way or the other though.

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    Re: FX-6300 or FX-8350!?

    I've seen quite a few people lately getting their 8350s to 4.8GHz with minimal effort. I know that overclocking improved between Trinity and Richland, so I'm guessing AMD's manufacturing process has improved. That should extend to the 8320...

    As for power, the reviews hammer the processor with stress tests. In real use it's nowhere near as bad.

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    Re: FX-6300 or FX-8350!?

    Quote Originally Posted by teppic View Post
    That should extend to the 8320...
    That's the interesting bit

    Processes are always improving, they kind of have to and there will be people employed to make it happen. But as part of that process, AMD know exactly how good each wafer is. So I would expect the best but slightly leaky silicon to become the 8350 parts, the best but less leaky parts will become the server Opterons. If they have some left over? Well if the process is getting good then they may well end up with 2 cores turned off as 6350, maybe even as 4350 parts. Some may end up as 8320, but in the back of my mind I think of the cherry picked silicon products that AMD has pumped out in the past and figured that if I could afford it I wanted a chip that had definitely aced all their testing. Mind you, I don't like to depend on overclocking to get a machine that I want, it is a bonus if I do it.

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    Re: FX-6300 or FX-8350!?

    If I were going for 4.7GHz+ I'd get the 8350. Any 8320 should manage 4.4GHz on a good board though, and the new ones may (or may not) clock just as high

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    Re: FX-6300 or FX-8350!?

    Quote Originally Posted by DanceswithUnix View Post
    That's the interesting bit

    Processes are always improving, they kind of have to and there will be people employed to make it happen. But as part of that process, AMD know exactly how good each wafer is. So I would expect the best but slightly leaky silicon to become the 8350 parts, the best but less leaky parts will become the server Opterons. If they have some left over? Well if the process is getting good then they may well end up with 2 cores turned off as 6350, maybe even as 4350 parts. Some may end up as 8320, but in the back of my mind I think of the cherry picked silicon products that AMD has pumped out in the past and figured that if I could afford it I wanted a chip that had definitely aced all their testing. Mind you, I don't like to depend on overclocking to get a machine that I want, it is a bonus if I do it.
    My mate got an FX6350 recently and he could boot into Windows at 5GHZ!! He is actually limited by his cooling otherwise he would have got 4.5GHZ+ easily,but under stress tests the CPU goes over 62C sadly.

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    Re: FX-6300 or FX-8350!?

    Quote Originally Posted by CAT-THE-FIFTH View Post
    My mate got an FX6350 recently and he could boot into Windows at 5GHZ!! He is actually limited by his cooling otherwise he would have got 4.5GHZ+ easily,but under stress tests the CPU goes over 62C sadly.
    Yeah, I was helping someone else out recently who got a 6350, he had 5GHz totally stable with good temps. He had 5.3GHz (!) stable, but I think he pushed the bus speed too hard as he ended up with OS corruption.

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