Here is my advice for those on a limited budget! and still want AMD FX killer performance.

[MushBrain]

Look no further than the first generation X58 HEDT platform, except we are not talking about 45nm chips, nor bloomfield i7's..

32nm Westmere-EP XEON and very very cheap CPU's!

[video="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3lCcZuJZ2U"][/video]

The biggest cost for all of this will be the x58 motherboard and your GPU.

Here is what i bought.

Here is how far i could push my XEON stable. 4.47ghz

Here is some performance numbers for CPU intensive games, though FALLOUT 4 is running everything the GPU can handle, it's almost maxed out but light shafts on low and PhysX off.

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[video="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQkpGyH6lOM"][/video]

[video="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZI2GtQBAcmk"][/video]

[video="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-PQGFhySUc&t=2s"][/video]

[video="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gfDYkUkSmg"][/video]

[video="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaPYv2jAVkY"][/video]

[video="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylOoOWJdeZ0"][/video]

[video="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgZDocTp2_A"][/video]




This will all come down to the cost of the motherboard, however you won't find much that will keep up with this, i3's certainly will not, GTA V for example loves HT of the XEON and is a beautiful smooth sailing 80FPS average.

 

[MushBrain]

Ask anything you wish if you need help.