FX 8350 or FX 9590?

[Stephen Patterson]

Before any of the Intel fanboys or AMD haters get started...

Yes I am a AMD Fanboy, Yes I like Intel, have a system(3) in the house that uses Intel. I have a budget and I heavily multi-task, and play games that use multiple threads, so that sexxy i7 is out of the question. And, yes I know Intel beats AMD in single thread appications, always has and possibly always will.

Now that that is out of the way...

My plans as of right now is to get the ASRock 990FX Extreme9, which is advertised as the Go-To board for the FX 9590. From what I have seen, and read, the FX 9590 is nothing more then a pre-OCed FX 8350. That, creates a decent level of heat and has a 220w power draw for 4.7GHz, and an OC capability of 5.0-5.1 GHz. And, when the FX 8350 is OCed to 4.7-50GHz, there is almost no difference in performance.

So, my question is, is it really worth paying the extra $50-$150 for the FX 9590 or just get the FX 8350 and just OC it whenever I need the extra power? What kind of heat does a 4.7GHz OCed FX 8350 put off compared to the out of the box 4.7GHz FX 9590? What is the power draw of an 4.7GHz OCed 8350 compared to the out of the box 4.7GHz FX 9590?

Another question, I know that the FX series is speced for 1886MHz RAM, yet the boards that support AM3+ support higher RAM speeds. Does this imply that the CPU in a way can be Oced or something rather to work with higher RAM speeds? Was looking at the Kingston HyperX Predator Beast DDR3 2133MHz 32GB kit.

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

FX8350 , THE 9000 SERIES is a waste of money.


Your choices for the 9000 series:



Asrock 970 Performance
ASRock 990FX Extreme9
ASRock 990FX Extreme6
Asus Crosshair V Formula-Z
Asus M5A99FX PRO R2.0
Asus Sabertooth 990FX R2.0
Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3 R4.0
Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD5
Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD7
MSI 990FXA-GD80V2

AMD.COM

Warning: This power draw of this CPU is almost twice that of the average CPU. Due to this, AMD recommends using at minimum a 1000W power supply. For cooling, AMD recommends using either either closed loop liquid cooling or full system liquid cooling.

 

[patrick47018]

Get the FX-8350 and OC it yourself, I own a FX-9590 and only do on account of AMD giving it to me from winning a contest. I use it in a ASRock 990FX Extreme9, very nice board, highly recommend.

EDIT: And I cool mine with a Thermaltake Water 3.0 Ultimate, it is really good too. But it barely fit in my InWin 707 Full Tower case

 

[Stephen Patterson]

Thank you guys, greatly appreciated!! And, yea I'm going with the same cooler for my CPU, patrick47018, but I'm going with the Thermaltake Chaser A71 Full Tower Case.

Though, I gotta ask because I do like Intel, how does the FX 8350 compare to the Xeon E3-1231 V3 in multi-threading and multi-tasking? Also, no answer on the higher RAM speed support???

 

[Justkeeplookin]

Go for 8350 why you may ask? Lets see the pros and cons

Pros for 8350: Less TDP, More room to overclock allowing flexible clocks, Cooler than the 9590, $66 cheaper on Amazon, Base Clock of 4.0 GHz, Easy to Overclock, Higher Price to Performance Ratio.


Pros for 9590: Higher Base Clock, A bit faster,

Cons for 8350: Lower Base Clock,

Cons for 9590: Not alot of room to overclock, Hotter than 8350