OC'ing AMD FX 8320e to match performance of AMD FX 8750

[tshrjain]

Currently I have a FX 6300 OC'd to 4.1 GHz. Following are the rest of the components that I use:

MoBo: Asus M5A97 Evo R2.0
CPU Cooler: Hyper Evo 212
GPU: Asus R9 280x 3GD5 (Non Top Version)

FX 6300 runs most of my games including the modern titles at High Graphic settings at 1080p without any problems. However, I recently started streaming (Casual streaming @ 480p) and I find that FX 6300 isn't really cutting it out anymore. It does use almost the whole CPU power to encode using x264 encoder. (The AMD VCE encoder that utilizes GPU instead of CPU isn't working for some reason on Xsplit and OBS).

I would like to upgrade to a 8 core processor and the FX 8320e seems to be cheapest option for my needs and utilizes a lot less power. I would be OC'ing the 8320e and would like to know can I safely OC it to achieve the same performance as the more expensive FX 8750 CPU using my current Hyper Evo 212 CPU Cooler? If not, will it be possible to achieve the performance of FX 8750 by OC'ing FX 8320 (the non "e" version)?

I am guessing that if I go for FX 8350 or FX 8370 (which I can't as they are way to expensive for me), and OC them, I would need water cooling as even the FX 6300 tends to blow out a good amount of heat. (I do live in a hot region).

Would you advise to go for an FX 8350 instead and then OC it using Hyoer Evo 212 cooler?

Appreciate the help

 

[lifespill]

The fx 8320e is a good deal and the perfomance gap between 8370 is not that huge,also its 90watt tdp make it a little cooler.The whole fx series are more or less the same chip with some better bining on the higher clocked ones.So if you buy the 8320e and clock it up to 4ghz would be almost the same as a fx 8350-8370 with less money.So my advice is to sell you old cpu and save money for an fx 8320e and clock it with your hyper 212 which is enough for 4ghz-4,2ghz overclock.

 

[tshrjain]

So the "e" version i.e. the 95W TDP version will perform similar to a non "e" version i.e. 125W TDP version, when both are OC'd equally right?

 

[Jiggle21]

Running my 8320 at 4.8 (Just got it there tonight with some strenuous tweaking of the voltages / Nb OC.) However now it performs just about the same as a 9370. Of course I had to use some water cooling, and even then it runs at a fairly toasty 64*. But yeah I would save up for at least the 8320e. Since they are about the same (Tho i think the 8320 non e is about 10 bucks cheaper right now) I would shoot for the non e as you can push it a lot more.

 

[CountMike]

They are "E" only until you start overclocking and as soon as you have to raise voltage while OCing they will start using as much power as ordinary 8320.