Upgrading from an AMD Phenom II X6 1045T to a FX-8350

[Onyx_Wolf]

Just a quick question to anybody that might know, would this be a viable upgrade? I mainly use my computer for gaming, and felt the need to upgrade my CPU to something a -little- bit nicer, and hoping to at least have some sort of improvement while playing games.

Other specs:
GPU: GTX 960 SC, 2GB
RAM: 2x4GB @ 1600MHz
MOBO: MSI 970 Gaming

 

[Gam3r01]

No, not really. The Phenom II x6 processors still hold their own fairly well, even ahead of the FX-6xxx processors. It would be like going from a 6300 to an 8320, not really an upgrade.
If you want something worth your money for the processor, you are looking at a switch to intel.

 

[540dude]

Agreed with Gam3r01, I switched from an FX-8350 to an i5 4570 and a $50 MSI mobo and noticed a huge frame difference in games.

 

[teknobug]

You're not going to gain very much, I'd say stick with it until AMD Zen comes out. I still have a X6 1090T and considering throwing that back in my system that has the FX 4350 right now, also used to have an 8320, 8320E and 8350.

 

[NightAntilli]

Passmark (Single Core)
Phenom II X6 1045T: 1,074
FX 6300: 1,446
FX 8350: 1,525
i5 4570: 2,068

As seen above, this is a good indication of what performance increase you'll get. People here are very hasty to tell you to switch to Intel, but you can get a relevant improvement by going from the Phenom II X6 to the FX-6/FX-8 CPUs.

If you can overclock your Phenom to the FX speeds, you'll get a similar performance. The Phenoms weren't really great overclockers so.. If not, you might as well upgrade. The FX-8350 is not really worth it unless you do other heavy multithreaded stuff. I'd stick with upgrading to the FX-6300 or FX-8320 in that case, and overclock it to at least FX-8350 speeds. These CPUs overclock quite well, provided you have a power supply that can feed it. Your motherboard should not be an issue.

The best option is still to wait for Zen... As suggested above.