Upgrading FX-8320 worth?

Leozeo

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Aug 3, 2013
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Is it would upgrading an FX-8320 to say FX-9590?

Other specs
Motherboard-gigabyte 990fxa-ud3
Ram- G.SKILL Sniper Low Voltage Series 8GB
Video card- GTX 770 2gig
 
Solution
^^ A cheap cooler can get you over 4 easily and with a better cooler, 4.5 - 4.7. I can do 4.8 stable for gaming. Just don't like my fellows toasted by the heat that comes out of the top of my tower under my desk so I do 4.3 - 4.5, especially in this 30C + summer.
No, you won't really see anything big in terms of gaming other than more heat in your room and a higher power bill.

The two main games I play are BF4 and Ark, and neither top my CPU about 50%, so the 8320 sucks for gaming from the intel boys, whatever.
 
^^ A cheap cooler can get you over 4 easily and with a better cooler, 4.5 - 4.7. I can do 4.8 stable for gaming. Just don't like my fellows toasted by the heat that comes out of the top of my tower under my desk so I do 4.3 - 4.5, especially in this 30C + summer.
 
Solution
+1 for theonerm2's suggestion. That motherboard has decent power phases on it, should be plenty capable of overclocking the 8320. Just use a better cooler to keep temperatures down. There's no reason to get the 9590, for the price/performance with the addition of it being a mini chernobyl trying to keep it cool it's a rather poor value by comparison.
 


I have one of the CORSAIR Hydro Series water coolers, not sure which one. Any solid guides that work with my motherboard? I've seen a few for Asus not so many Gigabyte
 
Keep your 8320 and just overclock it. The FX-9*** are overpriced and perform just as well as the 8320/8350. I was using that same board (revision 3.0) with a 8320 as well and I was running my 8320 at 4.4GHz using a Xigmatek Thor's Hammer.