Is the AMD FX-8350 still good

[Ellosmello]

Is the AMD FX-8350 still good for gaming and steaming? Is it fast and good for gaming? Can I use it for streaming? Thanks

 

[Darkbreeze]

As a budget option, yes. As an option looking for good all around performance and value, not so much. With a good GPU, it will game fine though.

It uses a lot more power and creates a lot more heat though, so consider the additional cost of cooling hardware and higher capacity PSU and the i5 starts looking like almost the same price, but with much better performance.

 

[GRUxTSAR]

FX 8350 is great for streaming and still perfectly good for AAA games (Though some games might give you a little trouble at frame rates >60)

 

[Gaidax]

Yeah it's fine, latest top end I5s (and of course I7s) overtake, but really, you will be sufficiently covered for most modern titles. SOME might give you problems, though.

 

[casvancap]

No it is a old slow CPU and i used to have lots of problems with it. Go with a I7 or the I5 couterpart, it is a little more expencive but you wont regret it.

 

[Darkbreeze]

i used to have lots of problems with it.

That's likely to be more due to the user, or in some cases, simply one bad chip, than the product in general, and has little if ANYTHING to do with positioning of the CPUs usefulness. The FX 8320, 8350 and 8370 certainly have their places and are good choices in the right situations. If I had to do a LOT of work using applications that benefit from many threads, I'd certainly want an FX chip rather than an i3 or i5, if I couldn't fit an i7 or a V3 Xeon into the build.

 

[Vici0us]

FX-8350 is alright.. for almost the same price you can get an i5.

 

[Darkbreeze]

FX-8350 is alright.. for almost the same price you can get an i5.

It uses a lot more power and creates a lot more heat though, so consider the additional cost of cooling hardware and higher capacity PSU and the i5 starts looking like almost the same price, but with much better performance.

Pretty sure those two are the same thing. Heh. It does matter however, as I said, what else aside from gaming you intend to do. The i5 with it's four cores doesn't perform as well at applications that require or utilize a high thread count like the FX 8 core and i7/V3 Xeon's.

 

[NightAntilli]

For gaming combined with streaming, the FX-83xx CPUs will do better than most people claim. Gaming alone i3 and i5 can beat it due to them being programmed for single core, but streaming adds additional instructions that's best handled by separate threads, which is where the strength of these FX CPUs is.

 

[Cryio]

The 8350 is a fine CPU depending on what GPU are you going to use it for. If you are going for something faster than a 290/780, you should go Intel at that point. i5/i7s unlocked.

Otherwise, the 8350 is perfectly fine. Just overclock it to 4.5+ GHz and be careful to check for Core Parking every time you start a game (same goes for any CPU that has more than 2 threads really, regardless if it's Intel or AMD) to get the best performance out of it.


For streaming, the FX8350 will be mighty faster than an i5 if you intend to play games maxed out (of course you will). Allow the whole CPU threads to the game and set the last 2-3 threads for Twitch/streaming program and you should be fine. If you are using a 600-900 Nvidia GPU streaming will be even less of an issue.

 

[manutd604]

With everyone saying its the same price as an i5 it is not. In England i got my 8350 for 120 pound whilst the cheapest i5 6000 series was 190 pound

 

[Darkbreeze]

With everyone saying its the same price as an i5 it is not. In England i got my 8350 for 120 pound whilst the cheapest i5 6000 series was 190 pound

If you add the price of the hardware necessary in order to provide an FX chip the foundation needed to even try and keep up with a Intel i5, and the key word there is "try", such as a motherboard of sufficient quality to provide a stable overclocking platform, an aftermarket cooler, in most cases also additional case cooling and potentially, a larger PSU to accommodate the overclocking, it makes more sense to simply go with a better platform.

If you already have all or some of those things, then in some cases it might make more sense. Additionally, you'll find you pay for the use of the overclocked FX chip in extended power usage as well.

My FX-8320@4.5Ghz used 77w at idle and 263w when running Prime95. My 6700k uses 45w at idle and 118w when running Prime95. That will absolutely show up on your energy bill over the course of a year if you stress the system much or game for any length of time on a regular basis.

Also, this thread is now a few months from being a year old, so thanks for reviving a dead thread. Closing thread.