Fx 8350 worth it?

[h1ghf1v3]

I currently have a Fx-8150 @ 4.20ghz because my crappy MSI-990FXA-GD65 motherboard sucks at overclocking past that or my chip is not that good. Anyways I'm reading the head-to-head comparisons on CPU Boss and other sites, and it looks like the 8350 is almost identical to the 8150. There has to a be good reason why the 8150 is discontinued, and a good reason for me to upgrade. For insight, I have a SSD, Gigabye 270x slightly overclocked. My fps is not really that great when I'm gaming in GTA5, ~41fps on 4x MSAA. This is partially a GPU question too, I'm sorry! Lastly, with that data, which GPU+CPU combo would give me 60FPS in GTA5 w/atleast 4x MSAA? I know intel cpus are much better at gaming because of the fast single thread processes, but let's pretend intel doesn't exist xD I want AMD to complement my AM3 mobo.

 

[RCFProd]

4x MSAA is simply a very demanding graphics thing. Depending on your settings I'm suprised you're past 40+ fps with an R9 270X. Even an R9 290 dips below 60 fps with 4x MSAA + Very high settings in GTA V for me.

 

[h1ghf1v3]

Fast response! Forsure, thats good to know! You're rig is like an intel mirror of my build, but you're getting ~60 fps /drool. Seems like I really do need a better gpu. Any suggestions on a 4gb+ vram gpu that will get me closest to 60 fps?

 

[RCFProd]

Firstly, read on how the FX-8350 Piledriver was improved over the FX-8150 in this article:
http://techreport.com/review/23750/amd-fx-8350-processor-reviewed

You could say the FX-8350 is 10-15% faster per core. I wouldn't upgrade before upgrading the graphics card though. And the recommended option for you would be to upgrade to Intel i5 probably, over buying a basically ''slightly'' better AMD FX-8320 (Would save you money over the FX-8350).

Depending on your budget, the R9 390X is the best graphics card below 400 dollars. It requires a 600 watts power supply or better. It's especially ideal if you had a PSU with 50A on the 12V rail, for the highest chance for optimal performance.


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Otherwise either GTX 970 or R9 390 are just fine options for settings like that.

 

[Tfuture]

Fast response! Forsure, thats good to know! You're rig is like an intel mirror of my build, but you're getting ~60 fps /drool. Seems like I really do need a better gpu. Any suggestions on a 4gb+ vram gpu that will get me closest to 60 fps?

If your looking for a better gpu im a big fan of the sapphire 390 Nitro (with backplate) obviously budget dependant.. has 8GB of ram and competes with a 980 at higher resolutions.

With respect to the 8150 v 8350 situation, i cant quire remember but there was a pretty big issue with the 81xx cpu's which was corrected with the 83xx cpus i THINK.. it had something to do with power efficiency or something along those lines but was partially fixed with a driver update, but otherwise yeah, theyre pretty much the same

 

[Dulith1118]

so basically 8350 cost the same around an i5 4460 i would go for that cuz it does perform way better in gaming cuz of the powerfull single core performance but u have to buy a new mobo....

 

[h1ghf1v3]

You searched for me <33 thanks baby

 

[RCFProd]

Haha I wish I got this amount of love from everyone