Fx 9370, my experience

[donuts59]

Okay so i have a Amd Fx 9370 cpu, and a shit ton of people hate on it. I bought it for $150 and yes i did have to buy a liquid cooler good enough to cool it. I overclock it to 5ghz stable, before you go on and start talking shit, http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=AMD+FX-9370+Eight-Core Not too bad especially for what i paid for it, I know intel wins but i'm just defending the fx 9 series a bit, everyone attacks them and i do see their point but for the money you get a pretty good bang for your buck. Just something to think about

 

[random5]

Well they're surely nice for heating up the room if you live in the north (Canada,Russia,Scandinavia,Alaska), ofcourse performance is admirable,however that's all it has got up its sleeve.

 

[leeb2013]

So a similar score to a 45w 3.5ghz Xeon with a stock cooler, double the single thread performance, running much cooler and similar overall price (including cooler). Yeah that's not bad....... For the Xeon. Or is this too much sh.. ?

 

[Gam3r01]

The processor itself is a joke honestly.

You can get IDENTICAL performance from OCing an 8320 to the exact same speeds, for less cost.
You also expect me to believe an 8320 outperforms a 4670k? Passmark is far from benchmarks.


BUT, for 150, which is 10 bucks more than the 8320, its honestly not a real waste. Would I have recommended it, no. Did you do anything wrong? Not directly.

 

[iam2thecrowe]

IF you can get one for $150, no you cant really get another cpu that is as good for the price. BUT then your spending $100 on a watercooler.....so its now a $250 cpu, which, is still ok for the price IF your running apps that make use of the 8 cores. You will also need a power supplly with an additional 150 watts up its sleeve. Lot of if's and buts there.... If you can fill the if's and but's then thats great, but its really a niche market and i could not recommend that cpu to just anyone.

 

[coolcole01]

Pretty angry but at 150 bucks who is complaing

 

[DubbleClick]

$150 9370 fx
$150 990 fx motherboard
$100 high end cooling solution

vs.

$240 xeon e3-1231v3
$90 h97 motherboard

Profit?

 

[donuts59]

In my particular situation, i bought the cooler off amazon for $60. I had the opportunity to build a cheap 9 series fx amd and i took it. Overall i spend about $700 with a 270x gpu. I agree with most of you tbh, the performance you get with the chip can easily be beaten by much of what intel has to offer, but as a owner of it i honestly cant complain especially for what i paid. If i had to pay regular price of course i wouldn't buy it.