AMD FX-8350 Build

[24online24]

Hi! I bought last month (february) an AMD FX-8350 and a Gigabyte 970A-DS3P. I still have an AMD HD-6570 2GB GPU 🙁
1. What do you think about it?
2. Can you tell me some games like Crysis 3 to run smoothly on this build and use all 8 cores?
3. What GPU do you recommend me to buy for playing/ recording new games like Far Cry Primal?

 

[JuG_A_ThoN]

All I know it shit mobo. With fx 4300 and gtx 950 and my games run good. I'm up to 8350 to I have it ready I just need new mobo.

 

[DonkeyOatie]

Your motherboard will not run that CPU at full speed and load in intense gaming situations. You will get thermal throttling of the power delivery system (VRM) This will challenge your ability to play and record gaming.

 

[Corwin65]

That GPU is also not very good for what you want, and odds are your PSU will also be lacking.

As it's not been much time, maybe you can still return the items and make better choices.

 

[Benjiwenji]

Your mobo isn't good on VRM, as pointed out by DonkeyOatie. Try to increase airflow to minimize the heat on Mobo. Pointing a fan to to flow directly on VRMs would be ideal

Games using Dx11 won't use all 8 cores, perhaps Dx12 and Vulkan will.

For US market GPUs, under $200- r8 380/280x under $400 r9 390/GTX 970. I wouldn't go higher than $350 on GPU with the 8350 stock. I wouldn't go lower than the 380/960 either.

 

[DonkeyOatie]

The challenge will be to get fluid gaming, recording, and streaming on that CPU/motherboard, without lagging or thermal throttling, almost no matter what the GPU is.

Fortunately the DS3P is half-decent, and aggressive VRM cooling may just do the business. A second fan on the rear of the motherboard would help too.

 

[JuG_A_ThoN]

I have gma760 on a 8350. running 4.1ghz with a gtx 950 no problem, but yea im uping my mobo to ASUS M5A99

 

[Benjiwenji]

Your 760 is actually worse than the 970 he has. You're luck that it is 'fine' but most people won't be that luck given the same mobo.

 

[DonkeyOatie]

I doubt that you have 'no problem', but it may be that the problems are not obvious. When you change motherboards, any big performance increase will be the unnoticed problem. It also depends on the games you play and the intensity. The OP WILL have issues when they game, record, and stream at the same time with that CPU on that board.

 

[24online24]

I doubt that you have 'no problem', but it may be that the problems are not obvious. When you change motherboards, any big performance increase will be the unnoticed problem. It also depends on the games you play and the intensity. The OP WILL have issues when they game, record, and stream at the same time with that CPU on that board.

What do you mean by "that CPU"? I choosed it over an i5/ i7 because the 8 cores for recording/ streaming/ rendering.

 

[DonkeyOatie]

And that's fine, 'that CPU' is unsuitable for the motherboard you have chosen. It does record/stream/render better, in most cases, than an i5 (but not a Xeon like I use, or an i7).

The '8 cores' is a bit of marketing license. The CPU is organized into four modules, each of which has a floating point processor and two integer processors, all of which (the three of them) share memory resources. This, and a fairly old architecture, means that each AMD module processes significantly fewer instructions than an equivalent Intel core.

An intel I5 has four integer processors, and four floating point processors organized into four cores, so you can see how the two CPUs and their terminology do not quite match.

You have what you have, and you need to cool your motherboard to avoid lagging and dropped frames.

 

[JuG_A_ThoN]

I can stream and play rust, csgo etc. at hitting 300 fos on csgo some maps. no problems. temp are fine maxing at 50C

 

[DonkeyOatie]

Then you are lucky to have a board with good enough components, not everyone will be so lucky. I am unconvinced that your motherboard VRM temperatures are that low. Temperature measurements can be unreliable with AMD kit. How are you measuring things?