For anyone still using these (I retired mine two years ago and now have a 5800X3D), Locking your framerate at 60 will really help with your lows as you're almost always going to be CPU bottlenecked now. Locking the framerate to 60 (in my case I have a freesync and locked mine at 49 since 48 was my bottom end) takes the extra load back off the CPU instead of letting the video card push it to its max all the time (uncapped framerate) and that really helped keep the frametimes more consistent :)
Should add... it won't help for the ones that are already barely hitting 30 since the framecap wouldn't help there. Cyberpunk was a good example of one where the 48 fps cap worked well at 1080p med/high settings on my RX 480. I think I used a 90% res scale. Anywho... Very good chip in terms of longevity and fun to see what you can get out of it but it's definitely reached the end of playing "new" games.
That's very good advice for these old systems. I built and gave my nephew an FX-8350 system with an RX 580 GPU several years ago and had him cap his games at 60 as well (his monitor is 60hz only). That made a world of difference for game smoothness and also helps to draw less power from the GPU as it doesn't have to work as hard. I do the same thing with my RTX 2070 Super in some games and notice up to 100 watt difference over just letting it run wild! 😉
My 8350 was passed to 5 different people, and now lives out a quiet life as a media box. That cpu, motherboard and ram owes me nothing for a long while now, and when it finally kicks the bucket or I move another part down into its place. I'm going to encase it in resin. For a quote "bad cpu" as reviewers have said. That cpu has started several pcgamers passions. And has had everything from a hd 7750 to a 1070ti hooked up to it. From Main gaming rig to racing simulator chair, minecraft server to sleepy nas/media storage system.
Incredible. Just rebuilt my old 8350 build from back in the day, can’t believe I found a video and a professional well done video at that about the same thing. So cool haha
Still rocking my FX8350! I'm running it with a GTX 1070 with STARFIELD! While it is rough at the edges I will still continue to play it on my rig until I can get my new rig next month!
I got my fx8350 back in 2013 and used it for gaming until 2019, then my brother got to use until last year and it is now chillimg in our family's media PC, thinking about framin the CPU and motherboard as a cool nostalgia piece when i retire it. All in all 10 years of solid performance and no problems. Could never really get why people were so disappointed in the platform other than that it was not as fast as intel at the time.
@@CyberneticArgumentCreator 1-Ive never seen a report of blown up motherboards unless someone overclocks without adequate cooling (cause that FX8350 can be a room heater) :D 2 - Performance was very good and welcomed at release, especially compared to the entry price here for Intel platforms. 3 - There were enough processors that came after the FX8350, how worth it were they to buy over the FX8350 is a different story though. Besides Intel to this day requires you to swap platform every other generation. At the end of the day i go to whoever provides me with best performance for my money. It's just that Intel has not won me over with their products in a long time. It's not to say that AMD don't have their problems even to this day though (like every other PC hardware company)....
Ive personally never hear of boards blowing up either. But if your a straight knuckle head i can see it. Am3 allowed alot of freedom and people where putting 8350 into cheap board that could barly handle atlon x2. 8350 where good for productivity but suffered in games because of the low per core performance. At the time games only used 1 or 2 cores. Pentiums at the times performed better in game and i5 were king. With that said, i dont know anyone in real life who was disappointed with the 8350, only on youtube.
You could've gotten a lot more out of this CPU. Core frequency barely matters for FX CPUs. The trick is doing FSB overclocks and taking both Hypertransfer and Northbridge as far as you can. If your HT won't do 2600, it's worth ignoring FSB overclocks and instead doing 2600 NB with 1.45 NB voltage and 2400 HT, then keeping the cores at 4.6. Pretty much any FX 8350 will do that. Additionally - RAM OC. 2133Mhz mininum - pretty much any 1600CL9 sticks will do 2133CL10 at 1.65V and DDR3 can easily take that voltage. 2400-2666 is definitely better though. These CPUs are starved for memory, so tuning timings is worth it. I found tRRD and tFAW had the biggest advantages.
....he also should've shown the thermal margin instead of "temps" as we all know they are so wonky with any program reading them until that last 10ish degrees or so.
I found a great buy for one of these in an old used pc i bought, this guy put the biggest radiator fan combo i'd ever seen. Like perpendicular mount, fan sandwiched between TWO radiators, and then he also had r9 270x SLI... really a crazy pc for 2012
Until just a month ago I was running an fx8350 and a pair of 660ti reference cards running in sli. I'm currently still running the 8350, cooled with a 120 aio which is barely enough. I used to have it overclocked to a stable 4.6 but the silicon has degraded and won't run much past base clock without losing stability now. The 660ti were rewritten with custom bios's cranked to their limits. I was happily running anything that wasn't full dx12. On an rx580 now but moving on to an i7 8700k and 6700xt.
i love seeing people still discover these workhorses. currently still running an FX-8350 on a GA-990FXA-UD3 board (rev3) with 16gb RAM and an RX570. you definitely won't be running anything new at ultra settings, but if you tweak something here and change something there you can still have a great time with no issues. great video.
If you don't mind, based on your system above, how's the performance for esport games like Dota2 and CSGO/CS2? I am planning to build something similar like your system.
My first pc that I ever built was on the FX Platforms. I had an amd fx 6300 and x fired Radeon 7850. I do have some videos on my channel of some games from ages ago. It did it’s job and I was a single father with a daughter who was very limited so it was all I can afford at the time when I couldn’t afford intel. I sold it a year later and built an amd fx 8300 water cooled with a GTX 770. It was my Day Z stand alone rig till I eventually sold it and got a PS4. Good ol days with those rigs. Now I have a nitro 17 AMD Ryzen 7 7840hs with a RTX 4060 and loving it so far.
i'm still running an AMD phenom ii x6 1045t and athlon ii x2 645. Get about 60ish fps on older titles like l4d2 running everything on max with a gtx 970 but modern triple a games, it wont start cause its missing SSE instructions. Other than that, its still kicking today in 2023.
Thanks again for making this video. I had to log back into my RUclips account to mention that these CPU's really shine on the standard ATX motherboards of the day. Through trial and error, I found out that upgrading to an FX8350 from an FX6300 was more or less a fruitless endeavor because my motherboard (which was a mATX at the time) didn't support overclocking higher than 4.0 GHz. I also couldn't maximize my RAM's capabilities either because the mATX board I was using didn't have enough VRM / Power Phases to support overclocking as high as I wanted to go. My hope on my next (and final upgrade/build) utilizing this chipset is that I can manage to get that 4.9 GHz overclock with 32GB of RAM at a minimum of 2400mhz using four DIMMS. I am also looking into giving Nvidia SLI a shot by purchasing another 1070 ti GPU (8GB VRAM) and plugging that into an ATX mobo that supports SLI functionality. Though my concern lies again with the CPU - can it handle overclocking all cores, plus the RAM, plus TWO 8GB GPUS? I guess I'm about to find out! Thanks again for making this video! Cheers!
I have my FX8350 BE running on a Gigabyte 990FX mother board with a RX480 with 8GB graphics with a 2GB SATA HD. No need to OC this thing already runs at 4GHz+. My main PC for 8 years. Still runs Win10 64 and games really well.
Yeah... So i bought AMD FX 8350 CPU which will ship tommorrow, so now i know what can i expect with my GeForce 1080 8 GB MSI Gaming GPU :). Thank you for this review, those CPU's might be old, but they still rock. It will surely be better than my current CPU AMD FX 4300.
Ran a PC for gaming using a overclocked FX 8350 / GTX 1070 /with a 970 MB chipset / 32 GB ram , and a basic use PC with an FX 6300 / GTX 970, till end of last year upgrading and switching to full Red Team builds, a Ryzen 5900X / RX 6950 XT for gaming rig and a Ryzen 5600X / RX 6800 for basic use and secondary gaming PC gaming at 1440P, with both running 32 GB of ram, I still use the FX 8350 rig in bedroom for gaming , now paired with a RX 6600 XT, gaming at 1080P which has held up a FPS rate in the low sixties or higher so far in the games I play at mid to low settings, so most games I play are still playable at 1080P, if you're on a ( do mean extreme) budget system looking for beginner PC it'll work , but recommend for getting most of your money, going with at least an early Ryzen CPU or Intel CPU system which allows an for future upgrades, as with the FX 8350 there isn't any upgrade path, so you're dumping money into a non-upgradeable system, and as far as gaming is concerned low end system that as games progress will digress in FPS and limit the number of future coming games you can play, as there's a huge world of difference between my Ryzen 5900X rig and the older FX-8350 PC .
awsome vid danny, i just had a friend give me a fm2+ a10 7860k cpu and mobo n 16gigs ram, i was surprised it qould play gta5 even red dead on low settings across the board, but i slapped a rx 580 8g gpu in it and surprisingly plays some games i thought it wouldnt play..goes to show that old tech is still cool to check out and can see a systems limits kinda..
3:45 Just finished a BUILD with the FX 8350 @ 4.7ghz under Cinebench R15 R20 R23 runs all under 58.9 on an Medium AIR Cooler downgraded from a Dark Rock 4. Just about to find out how you went, I also let one go a year ago that was capable of 5ghz on AIR. So there my two cents, lolz, at least someone may care. Peace
I have my pc for 12 years this processor still kinking . My motherboard us asus formula v . 8350 fx amd overclock water cooler . 1080 gtx 6gb . 2 pratriot ddr3 16 gb 2400hz is nice keep using for my videos editor only this computer never die on me
I'm still using the FX 8350 with 16GB ram in the MSI 970A-G46 and the R9 390x (8 GB) gpu, both of which are power hungry and make great room heaters. But it's running at 4.3 GHz and can still run Microsoft Flight Simulator on medium settings. They were both "state-of-the-art" 8-10 years ago. But it's still got some life left in it.
I have the same board and CPU! It's pretty sweet. I recently got a new 32 gb set of ddr3 1866 from amazon for really cheap. It's done really well in the past but now it's just my main Linux pc i occasionally work on and slowly upgrade ever since I built a new PC for gaming. I realize that I don't want to stress the board too much with new gpus and such so I'm sticking with hardware upgrades that work with as little bottlenecks as possible so I can make this thing survive for as long as possible in the event my new main PC dies
I’m waiting on thermal paste and then I’ll have the fx8350 16gb ram gtx1060 3gb with 500gb nvme ssd then two 750gb hdds that I’m hoping to raid 0 maybe. Not sure if it’s necessary. Thinking I’ll run os off hdd and put games on ssd??
There is so much room for improvement in the 8350. Not just overclocking the cpu but the ram,Northbridge,hypertransport. Also nvme drives do work on my motherboard with a adapter. I am very proud of my system and is probably one of the fastest ones out there at the moment.
those are my settings: AMD FX-8350 4.7Ghz 1.475V(1.392v under load) | LLC Medium Northbridge 2600Mhz | CPU/NB 1.3V(1.343v underload) | LLC Regular HyperTransport 2600Mhz DDR3 2400Mhz CL10(Command Rate 2) 1.65V CPU Power capability +30% Cinebench R15: Single 111-112cb | Multi 751-754cb Cinebench R23: Single 616 | Multi 4088 NB and Ram help with minimum fps, and response. Running the DDR 2400Mhz CL10 at CR1 i had some issues, could be from cpu memory controller. I Would recommend running Medium LLC on CPU, don't go above for 24/7 use. use Cinebench R15 for Temp testing, run it on loops and Linpack or Prime95 for stability test. Cinebench R15 produces the most Heat, Linpack lowers the voltage more than Prime and Cinebench thats why i think it's better for stability. Cinebench R23 is a joke :P, compared to R15. oh and FX-9590 runs 1-4threads at 5Ghz, 5-8threads at 4.7Ghz. Going beyond 4.7Ghz all core, means surpassing FX-9590, My CPU doesn't like to go above 4,8Ghz for some reason even with ridiculous voltage. if i close cores: 4core goes up to 5Ghz, 6core up to 4.9Ghz and 8core 4.7-4.8Ghz max. AND When they say 1.55V Max i think they mean, your peak voltage spike to not go above 1.55V. so putting 1.55V means that your voltage will go above 1.55V when it spikes, that means there is possibility for the cpu to degrade over time. AMD says 61.1C max for FX-8350(4Ghz with boost 4.2Ghz), however on FX-9590(4.7Ghz with 5Ghz boost) it says 57c max. I Don't think it helps amd to put 57c on their hotest running CPU, so i wouldn't just ignore it for daily use. AAAND :D, use Hwinfo64 for monitoring CPU voltage underload and temps. Lastly for PCIE 2.0 Hardware the Best GPU is those with PCIE X16, like RX 580,RX5700,RX5700XT etc. Intel and Nvidia GPU Driver have CPU overhead and that is the reason i wouldn't recommend using those. i hope my info helped even a little
I had an fx8300 until 3 years ago. I hated it for its terrible performance, but am also really appreciative of all the knowledge I gained from overclocking it. I always loved tech and been around it all my life basically but that cpu really fueled a passion in me for this stuff. I ended up giving the system (with my old 1070) to a friend for his local small business and ot may not be doing any stressful work but it has found a peaceful place to spend the rest of its life.
My first pc had a FX 6300 and 380x. At the time it handled the simple games I wanted to play and I upgraded to a 970 and retired that pc in 2020. I gave my FX 6300 and 970 to a family member who plays esports titles and its still chugging along
My old desktop has an FX 8320e overclocked to 4.4Ghz, 16GB 1600mhz DDR3, 2.5mm SSDs and a GTX 1650 GDDR6. It still runs most modern AAA games fine with a 30fps cap. The 1650 seems to be a good match in performance for it. I could overclock it higher but I'm only using an inexpensive Red Dragon tower cpu cooler. I mainly just use it now to test new game performance to see how it runs. Definitely has impressed me.
This sounds eerily like my old (now my kids') desktop, except mine has an RX 580 and Hyper 212 Evo cooler. It runs Fortnite and Forza 5 just fine (after the awful load times of course). I was stunned that it could actually run Hogwarts Legacy in a playable state.
Antec is actually amazing for budget PC accessories. I had an fx8350 and an older antec cooler. Could not find the AM3 adapter to use it with fx8350. Called them and they sent the part for free.
I’m still using mine paired with a nvidia 2080ti aio. CPU has a double rad aio. With 32gb of 1866ghz DDR3. Multiple ssd’s different sizes. Using a saberthooth motherboard. Was thinking about buying a newer one recently but there isn’t anything wrong with my setup when playing modern titles in 4K high setting. Looking to spending about 2k on my next build to last me another 11 years hopefully. Built my own case using an ikea tv unit and glass shelves to direct air flow. 7 fans in total. Runs very quite as air flow is plenty. Although the fans I have only run as low as 800rpm and up to 1200rpm. Magnetic lift fans. Both rads are top mounted and 280mm. Used a kitchen splash back as a front panel and fitted a remote control usb led lighting at the top to illuminate the case. It also has all my 1:32 fast and furious cars in the case as a display. You can barely see the computer inside because of the cars lol 😂 runs at room temperature on ideal and no more then 55•c on gpu and 37ish for the CPU. I know I have epic bottle necks with the 2080ti but I will transplant it in to my new computer in the future. Also have a 850w gold power supply. Thanks for reading 👍🏻
nephew is using mine. my old rig for runescape. if i can remember its an 8350 black edition, 16gb ddr3, gtx 760ti, on an asrock extreme 3.0 board i think. i was playing wow on it until i upgraded to a 2700x 4 or 5 years ago
This is a great idea to test it out I've never had this chip, but I've heard this a couple of years back the first time, so I'm glad somebody took the time to check it out, but I'd not use this at all for everyday usage.
Hello, my mashine is still alive, I use a FX-8385 CPU (without overClocking) and 32 gb RAM (4x8 gb Geil/ Black Dragon ) and a Radeon RX 570, with 8GB, I mainly use my machine for the home office, but I also play games now and then, most of the games actually run quite well!! Sometimes I also connect my daughter's oculus to the computer using a link cable or WiFi. I really enjoy playing half-life with it, and it works surprisingly well.😃
Ran fx8350 from jan 2013 to december 2020. It served me well in 1080p. Even when i retired it, only a few games dropped below 60fps maxed out in 1080p for me with an rx580.
I got an fx 8350 in 2022 because it was the maximum cpu upgrade for my current mb, and I hadn't budgeted out a new build yet. It still works great on med-high settings with newer games, and I can edit 4k video pretty smoothly with gpu acceleration (1050 ti). Once I get a new build I'll set this one up as a server/NAS.
It's interesting that the 1% lows were consistently better at stock clocks. Not by much, but consistent. I mostly still game (weekends) on an fx8350, currently supporting an rx580. I recently built a 5800x3D based machine and in demanding newish titles it's great. But the old beast still runs old games very well, albeit with greater power consumption (its been at 4.6ghz since 2013). At its OC that's around 225 watts. The Corsair H80i has never been removed, I just keep the rad and fans free of dust. Under load, like Red Dead, it peaks at 53°.
I just purchased one of these, an FX8350 used to replace my AMD FX6300. I built my first gaming PC about five years ago using all secondhand parts with a friend. Now for the first time, I'm building a gaming PC on my own. Also replacing my GPU (Nvidia Quadrok4000) with the Quadrok5000). Rocking 32GB of RAM on a microATX mobo. Excited to see what the finished product will look like and how long it will last. EDIT: So I ended up swapping out the GPU for the QuadroK5000 and the improvement in performance was noticeable but negligible. I was finally able to play Monster Hunter: World at around 30 FPS on medium - low settings. Not the most ideal, but it got the job done and the game to load! Hell Let Loose, which is very CPU/GPU intensive was playable on Ultra settings but at 20-30 FPS depending on the area of the map or how much action was going on. The original upgrade that I did after seeing this video gave me very little returns on the investment in terms of performance, but it was a great experience that taught me a lot about system building. Thanks so much for helping aid that!
Man I loved overclocking this CPU. I had my HT and NB running at 2600MHz and my CPU at 4.7GHz @ 1.375V or something like that. Plus 32GB of 1866MHz DDR3. My motherboard the Asus TUF Sabertooth 990FX R2.0 even supported NVMe boot. It was great for programming and esports games.
Sabertooth is a beast! Good job on the 2600 across the board. I was able to get 2700 north and 3100ish on the hyper. My cpu is at 4.89 at very similar voltage. Ram had improvements at almost 2400 for my 2133 gskills(primary/secondary tight timings helped pushed it farther). Good job
I’m currently running a sabertooth 990fx gen3 r2.0 with pcie 3.0. With an NVME adapter in a PCIE x16 slot I’m getting transfer rates of 3200 mb/s… no problem with optimizing shaders here ;). Run’s Fortnite 1080p on epic settings with an average fps in the 80s. Only hiccup I had was I needed to modify the bios to get the NVME to be recognized as a bootable drive
Hi i built a fx6100 for my grandson last year for Christmas also i have got the fx6300 and fx8350 that i use everyday without complaints surffing the internet great my main game warthunder witch is great gets into windows from bios 28 seconds SSD main drive loved the video.
Rocked an FX-4100 and "upgraded" to a gtx 1060 3gb years ago. Tried tweaking that system to maintain a solid 45 fps in my main game. Mostly succeeded. Loved seeing what LS did with AMD; big fan boy of competition & innovation.
Heh.. been running this cpu for past 12 years with a gtx 1070. Just bumped it up to 32gb ram. Few games were hitting the 16gb limit. Just saw the Aio... mine went out about the 10 yr mark. Repaste and installed evo 212. Runs cool now. But its almost time to build a new one.
A couple years back I was using a FX 4350. With an overclock (I got mine to 4.7GHz on air) it was a great chip, matching the performance of an i3 4130. The AM3+ platform isn't quite dead yet, but it's close. It's dying out like the Core 2 Quad did a couple years back. I was able to pick up a deal on an X99 board with an i7 5930K and 16GB RAM and an NVMe SSD. Such a huge difference compared to the 4350. I passed my old 4350 system onto my sister, and she's quite happy with the performance.
I'm running a 9590fx liquid cooled and see no need for overclock...memory needs tweaking running 32 mb 1866mhz gskill now. They really needed a second memory controller to reach full potential with these systems...I need a video card upgrade to bring her back to full on potential again. 990fXa-ud7 board Good to see peeps at least looking at these systems again. I'm building a brand new system now with a 8320fx I got cheap for fun out of a brand new mobo I found in a parts box...should be fun. Can't wait to upgrade to a r9 system on a am5 board to play with the newest toys again. Thanks for sharing.
I'm still running 2 amd FX processors one is a 6300 6 core and the other is a 8320, I don't game and never had any issues. Both systems are rocking 16 gigs of memory
Fun video! I ran an FX8320 for a few years, until the first gen Ryzen CPUs hit the scene, so I think I retired mine around 2017. That meant the 8320 had a good three-ish year run. I loved it for the whole time I used it. But I also wasn't all that sad to see it put out to pasture. I'd guess these CPUs would fare better in modern titles if they supported AVX2.
@@MalikATL at 1080p you will be fine for a while! Some newer games might be more demanding so youll have to adjust quality settings but other than that you are good!
@@MalikATL Depends on what resolution you play games in, if you play in 1080p you should be okay, you will have to adjust graphic settings on some games. Also depends on the types of games you play. I am on a 7900xtx so I can play everything at max settings using FSR2.
I had an FX-8350 for a couple of years and wasnt a bad CPU to be honest, I had a Phenom II 1090T and it was missing new SSE instructions some games needed so instead of building a hole new system I was just able to replace the Phenom II with an FX-8350 and was able to use the computer just fine for another couple of years with out any real issues until I later upgraded to Ryzen with a R5 3600 CPU, the FX-8350 for me came in clutch as Ryzen was already out and I got a decent deal on it and saved me spending out on a whole new platform as im glad I did as it allowed me to hold out till Ryzen 3000 came out.
im running a AMD FX 8320E and a GTX 660 soon to be a 980 and 32gb of ram and 2 Tb of samsung 870 evo storage and ngl its not a bad pc for this day of age
Not only is he a master at configuring optimal computer components., You seem to be a master of marketing. I admire your attention to detail. Be successful.
Hey can you please do a video comparison between the Sata 3 ssd and instead using a nvme ssd on a pcie x 16 adapter card. you might get up to 30 percent better performance
I absolutely HATE those clips that some aio companies use and avoid those at all costs. Personally, I think that having a screw in each corner offers better and more even mounting pressure. I almost got a corsair h150 until I found out it used those clips, so I ended up getting a waterforce x360 instead for my 7700x cpu. Anyway, great video. It's always fun to see how older hardware performs compared to today's hardware
Still got an Asus and Gigabyte board and 8320 and 8350 cpu just sitting in a box which still work and were used until not long after cyberpunk came out running the game pretty well in Medium settings. Changed it up to 3600XT with EVGA 2060 KO Ultra, then to 5600 with Gigabyte RTX 3060. Had many brands of laptops with different combos, and buying another with 13980 and a 4080, but none of these have lasted and stood the test of time like my FX series.
After moving back to Vegas from Washington in 2015, I decided to buy myself my first gaming computer because all of my friends in Washington had one, and it was going to be a great way for us to keep n touch. At the time, I didn't even know you could game on a pc so it was all pretty new to me. I didn't do research on anything either b4 buying a computer and didn't reach out for advice 😅. I bought myself a fx 4300 which was paired with a gt 1030 lol. 8gb, 500gb hd, on a Asrock 970m motherboard. it cost me $300. I still don't know if I was ripped off for the purchase but either way, I managed to do some light gaming with it until 2019 when I finally bought myself an upgrade. I've had about 12 different systems since then, the only that remains around without being traded or sold, is my fx4300 system. its still what I use for my business computer and I've changed only a power supply in that time. Love it.
In 2024 My pc runs ok with 8350 gets me what I need currently trying out overclocking but I know time to upgrade is coming with windows 10 end of life support in 2025 😢
Used an fx-8350 on that same board with a custom waterloop. It ran 5ghz @ 1.52v for 5 years before I updated to Ryzen. This vid is making me want to get those parts out and put it back together haha.
I remember when I built my first gaming pc in the devils canyon era, I spent so much time researching and comparing products. Even back then, anything from intel kinda destroyed the FX lineup in terms of gaming performance. Like even an overclocked x58 i7 will beat this chip (i think). Thanks for making this video, cause it made me realize its not as terrible as I thought haha.
yes it still games. I run an fx 8350 (upgraded from an fx-8320) with artic silver 5 thermal paste and a wraith prism cooler (typically for something like a for a 2700x). the gpu I use in the build is an rx 5500 xt gaming x which came bundled with godfall when I got it. it runs the game just fine, although have to adjust most higher end games to turn down particle effect and disable motion blur it is still a decently capable cpu
I am watching this video on my sons old gaming PC. It is an FX8350 with 32gb 1866mhz ram, 1tb ssd, and an EVGA 2060. I don't really game so to me this thing works great. I am a computer tech so I do appreciate faster computers. Buy what is in your budget and make it work.
Bought a 8300 for my brother for $40.00 and a matx mobo for $100 on the egg. He's buying the case. Had the RAM already and giving him my old Rx580 so I basically saved $150+ on the important parts albeit at a cost of Am4 performance and efficiency but for him it'll be good enough. Coming to about $400 total for the build including cooler, psu, mouse & keyboard. Good thing here is he can upgrade to AM4 without buying anything else if he wants.
As for me, I had an FX-8150. Plenty of games can run on that, just check the Intel processor specs and compare those to the specs of the FX you're using. Games I ran on that: Doom (2016) Doom Eternal Batman Arkham Origins SAO Alicization Lycoris Mortal Kombat 9, 10, 11 Street Fighter 5 Honkai Impact 3rd Genshin Impact Megaman X Dive (through Bluestacks and Vulkan for graphics API, use Vulkan when you can on older systems if you have the option and are running AMD) Daemon X Machina Borderlands 2 and 3 Gears V Various other older games. Note that I was running a Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO with Noctua fans on the front and back, with a rear Noctua fan and two front side fans (that's just how my case is). Memory was two 16Gb Ripjaws X 1866MHz memory kits for 32Gb total. The videocard was switched from the initial MSI Lightning 2 6970 to an RX580, and lastly, to an ASUS Dual AMD Radeon RX6600 (a part of the AM4 upgrade). Note: For a number of games, I am running them from a RAID 1 7200RPM mechanical hard drive setup, some were run off of a 1Tb 7200RPM mechanical hard drive, while others were running from the OS SSD (2TB). These are all SATA III drives. OS is Windows 10 with a 27 inch 2560x1440 60Hz monitor. Frame rates varied a bit, but mostly high/medium settings, which got me well above 50fps (some games came close to 60), lows were near 30fps or a bit above, but I didn't see slow downs anywhere. Loading times varied by the game (Fallout 4 has a longer wait for brand new areas, but not 5 minutes for them. The RAID 1 may have helped there). I have done some upgrades since to a Ryzen 5800X, Dark Rock Pro 4 for the CPU Cooler (got the same front fan that came with the cooler mounted on it's back), a Noctua 3000RPM capable fan for the back of the case, DDR4 32Gb (two sticks, 3200MHz with timings enabled through the eqivilent to XMP), and an ASUS Crosshair VII Dark Hero motherboard. Surprisingly, even with the upgrades, frame rates haven't changed, but that 6600 is less than three years old (October of 2021), and that CPU is an 8 core 16 thread item. I'm not sure what I can do aside from going down to 1080p (would like to keep 2560x1440 since that is native to the monitor, DisplayPort connection, btw), but you'd think the frame rate would have improved with the card change from the RX580 to the RX 6600. I even have a small overclock to the card (I had to step it back a bit when I got the Spider-Man Miles Morales game) so you'd think even with the VSync turned on and set to 60 I'd see constant 60's. If anyone has ideas besides swapping the videocard or processor, feel free to reply.
I'm using a 8320. I routinely get up to 79C. Occasionally 81. I'm not sure of the temp it starts limiting at. I'm not saying it's good, but I'm routinely peaking at 79.
For anyone still using these (I retired mine two years ago and now have a 5800X3D), Locking your framerate at 60 will really help with your lows as you're almost always going to be CPU bottlenecked now. Locking the framerate to 60 (in my case I have a freesync and locked mine at 49 since 48 was my bottom end) takes the extra load back off the CPU instead of letting the video card push it to its max all the time (uncapped framerate) and that really helped keep the frametimes more consistent :)
Should add... it won't help for the ones that are already barely hitting 30 since the framecap wouldn't help there. Cyberpunk was a good example of one where the 48 fps cap worked well at 1080p med/high settings on my RX 480. I think I used a 90% res scale. Anywho... Very good chip in terms of longevity and fun to see what you can get out of it but it's definitely reached the end of playing "new" games.
That's very good advice for these old systems. I built and gave my nephew an FX-8350 system with an RX 580 GPU several years ago and had him cap his games at 60 as well (his monitor is 60hz only). That made a world of difference for game smoothness and also helps to draw less power from the GPU as it doesn't have to work as hard.
I do the same thing with my RTX 2070 Super in some games and notice up to 100 watt difference over just letting it run wild! 😉
How are you setting your frame caps? In-game or Adrenalin or?
@@drag1286 MSI Afterburner but specifically riva tuner
@@drag1286 In game if available. If not then in either Adrenalin or Nvidia control panel works.
My 8350 was passed to 5 different people, and now lives out a quiet life as a media box. That cpu, motherboard and ram owes me nothing for a long while now, and when it finally kicks the bucket or I move another part down into its place. I'm going to encase it in resin. For a quote "bad cpu" as reviewers have said. That cpu has started several pcgamers passions. And has had everything from a hd 7750 to a 1070ti hooked up to it. From Main gaming rig to racing simulator chair, minecraft server to sleepy nas/media storage system.
Everyone in 2013, "its terrible" Everyone in 2024 "how is this thing still alive when the 2500k is long dead"
I still have my 8350 with a gtx 1060 and my gf uses for basic working and light gaming. Still an awesome pc for its age.
I'm still using this CPU today..It works what I need and play games..
Incredible. Just rebuilt my old 8350 build from back in the day, can’t believe I found a video and a professional well done video at that about the same thing. So cool haha
Still rocking my FX8350! I'm running it with a GTX 1070 with STARFIELD! While it is rough at the edges I will still continue to play it on my rig until I can get my new rig next month!
The best thing about older pc parts is that smaller youtubers can test like 100s of parts and combinations on a budget and make fun videos like this
I got my fx8350 back in 2013 and used it for gaming until 2019, then my brother got to use until last year and it is now chillimg in our family's media PC, thinking about framin the CPU and motherboard as a cool nostalgia piece when i retire it. All in all 10 years of solid performance and no problems. Could never really get why people were so disappointed in the platform other than that it was not as fast as intel at the time.
Maybe it was because of it blowing up motherboards, had terrible performance and no upgrade path?
@@CyberneticArgumentCreator 1-Ive never seen a report of blown up motherboards unless someone overclocks without adequate cooling (cause that FX8350 can be a room heater) :D
2 - Performance was very good and welcomed at release, especially compared to the entry price here for Intel platforms.
3 - There were enough processors that came after the FX8350, how worth it were they to buy over the FX8350 is a different story though. Besides Intel to this day requires you to swap platform every other generation.
At the end of the day i go to whoever provides me with best performance for my money. It's just that Intel has not won me over with their products in a long time.
It's not to say that AMD don't have their problems even to this day though (like every other PC hardware company)....
Ive personally never hear of boards blowing up either. But if your a straight knuckle head i can see it. Am3 allowed alot of freedom and people where putting 8350 into cheap board that could barly handle atlon x2. 8350 where good for productivity but suffered in games because of the low per core performance. At the time games only used 1 or 2 cores. Pentiums at the times performed better in game and i5 were king. With that said, i dont know anyone in real life who was disappointed with the 8350, only on youtube.
@@GunMedalGleam it was the benchmark andies who said 'FX bad' when the benchmark software was in collusion with Intel apparently
I still have a AMD FX8350 still , great video
You could've gotten a lot more out of this CPU. Core frequency barely matters for FX CPUs. The trick is doing FSB overclocks and taking both Hypertransfer and Northbridge as far as you can. If your HT won't do 2600, it's worth ignoring FSB overclocks and instead doing 2600 NB with 1.45 NB voltage and 2400 HT, then keeping the cores at 4.6. Pretty much any FX 8350 will do that.
Additionally - RAM OC. 2133Mhz mininum - pretty much any 1600CL9 sticks will do 2133CL10 at 1.65V and DDR3 can easily take that voltage. 2400-2666 is definitely better though. These CPUs are starved for memory, so tuning timings is worth it. I found tRRD and tFAW had the biggest advantages.
I did same thing with mine
I second everything said here..
....he also should've shown the thermal margin instead of "temps" as we all know they are so wonky with any program reading them until that last 10ish degrees or so.
The trfc was a huge improvement for me. Got it super low with my Gskill 2133 ram. Boosted my ram considerably.
@@StudmasterSteve If you can get tRRDS/L at 4/6 or 4/4 and tFAW 16 down, that'll do wonders to both latency and bandwidth.
I found a great buy for one of these in an old used pc i bought, this guy put the biggest radiator fan combo i'd ever seen. Like perpendicular mount, fan sandwiched between TWO radiators, and then he also had r9 270x SLI... really a crazy pc for 2012
Until just a month ago I was running an fx8350 and a pair of 660ti reference cards running in sli. I'm currently still running the 8350, cooled with a 120 aio which is barely enough. I used to have it overclocked to a stable 4.6 but the silicon has degraded and won't run much past base clock without losing stability now. The 660ti were rewritten with custom bios's cranked to their limits. I was happily running anything that wasn't full dx12. On an rx580 now but moving on to an i7 8700k and 6700xt.
i love seeing people still discover these workhorses. currently still running an FX-8350 on a GA-990FXA-UD3 board (rev3) with 16gb RAM and an RX570. you definitely won't be running anything new at ultra settings, but if you tweak something here and change something there you can still have a great time with no issues. great video.
If you don't mind, based on your system above, how's the performance for esport games like Dota2 and CSGO/CS2? I am planning to build something similar like your system.
@ms2ar Thank you so much for the information, bro. Really appreciate it.
I went through some of my old stuff the other day and found one of those and the older 1090T. Both did a good job back in the day.
Shader loading time has been fixed with the latest AMD drivers. That’s not because of the cpu but rather gpu drivers
I'm watching this on my 8350 with GTX 570, 16 gigs ram and Win 11 pro!
My first pc that I ever built was on the FX Platforms. I had an amd fx 6300 and x fired Radeon 7850. I do have some videos on my channel of some games from ages ago. It did it’s job and I was a single father with a daughter who was very limited so it was all I can afford at the time when I couldn’t afford intel. I sold it a year later and built an amd fx 8300 water cooled with a GTX 770. It was my Day Z stand alone rig till I eventually sold it and got a PS4. Good ol days with those rigs. Now I have a nitro 17 AMD Ryzen 7 7840hs with a RTX 4060 and loving it so far.
i'm still running an AMD phenom ii x6 1045t and athlon ii x2 645.
Get about 60ish fps on older titles like l4d2 running everything on max with a gtx 970 but modern triple a games, it wont start cause its missing SSE instructions. Other than that, its still kicking today in 2023.
I use one of them even in 2024 altogether with 32 GB DDR3 1600, two SSD's (SATA for booting M2 for data & programs and Radeon 6600. And it rocks!!! 💪
Thanks again for making this video. I had to log back into my RUclips account to mention that these CPU's really shine on the standard ATX motherboards of the day. Through trial and error, I found out that upgrading to an FX8350 from an FX6300 was more or less a fruitless endeavor because my motherboard (which was a mATX at the time) didn't support overclocking higher than 4.0 GHz. I also couldn't maximize my RAM's capabilities either because the mATX board I was using didn't have enough VRM / Power Phases to support overclocking as high as I wanted to go.
My hope on my next (and final upgrade/build) utilizing this chipset is that I can manage to get that 4.9 GHz overclock with 32GB of RAM at a minimum of 2400mhz using four DIMMS. I am also looking into giving Nvidia SLI a shot by purchasing another 1070 ti GPU (8GB VRAM) and plugging that into an ATX mobo that supports SLI functionality. Though my concern lies again with the CPU - can it handle overclocking all cores, plus the RAM, plus TWO 8GB GPUS? I guess I'm about to find out! Thanks again for making this video! Cheers!
Great video Danny! Love watching video’s like this on old hardware as I love tinkering with older stuff its always a surprise to see the results
I have my FX8350 BE running on a Gigabyte 990FX mother board with a RX480 with 8GB graphics with a 2GB SATA HD. No need to OC this thing already runs at 4GHz+. My main PC for 8 years. Still runs Win10 64 and games really well.
I ordered a $28 used case on eBay, and received an entire working FX-8350 system inside it, complete with 16gb ram and a GT 1030
Yeah... So i bought AMD FX 8350 CPU which will ship tommorrow, so now i know what can i expect with my GeForce 1080 8 GB MSI Gaming GPU :). Thank you for this review, those CPU's might be old, but they still rock. It will surely be better than my current CPU AMD FX 4300.
Ran a PC for gaming using a overclocked FX 8350 / GTX 1070 /with a 970 MB chipset / 32 GB ram , and a basic use PC with an FX 6300 / GTX 970, till end of last year upgrading and switching to full Red Team builds, a Ryzen 5900X / RX 6950 XT for gaming rig and a Ryzen 5600X / RX 6800 for basic use and secondary gaming PC gaming at 1440P, with both running 32 GB of ram, I still use the FX 8350 rig in bedroom for gaming , now paired with a RX 6600 XT, gaming at 1080P which has held up a FPS rate in the low sixties or higher so far in the games I play at mid to low settings, so most games I play are still playable at 1080P, if you're on a ( do mean extreme) budget system looking for beginner PC it'll work , but recommend for getting most of your money, going with at least an early Ryzen CPU or Intel CPU system which allows an for future upgrades, as with the FX 8350 there isn't any upgrade path, so you're dumping money into a non-upgradeable system, and as far as gaming is concerned low end system that as games progress will digress in FPS and limit the number of future coming games you can play, as there's a huge world of difference between my Ryzen 5900X rig and the older FX-8350 PC .
awsome vid danny, i just had a friend give me a fm2+ a10 7860k cpu and mobo n 16gigs ram, i was surprised it qould play gta5 even red dead on low settings across the board, but i slapped a rx 580 8g gpu in it and surprisingly plays some games i thought it wouldnt play..goes to show that old tech is still cool to check out and can see a systems limits kinda..
3:45 Just finished a BUILD with the FX 8350 @ 4.7ghz under Cinebench R15 R20 R23 runs all under 58.9 on an Medium AIR Cooler downgraded from a Dark Rock 4. Just about to find out how you went, I also let one go a year ago that was capable of 5ghz on AIR. So there my two cents, lolz, at least someone may care. Peace
I have my pc for 12 years this processor still kinking . My motherboard us asus formula v . 8350 fx amd overclock water cooler . 1080 gtx 6gb . 2 pratriot ddr3 16 gb 2400hz is nice keep using for my videos editor only this computer never die on me
I'm still using the FX 8350 with 16GB ram in the MSI 970A-G46 and the R9 390x (8 GB) gpu, both of which are power hungry and make great room heaters. But it's running at 4.3 GHz and can still run Microsoft Flight Simulator on medium settings. They were both "state-of-the-art" 8-10 years ago. But it's still got some life left in it.
I use the same config with a different motherboard.
I have the same board and CPU! It's pretty sweet. I recently got a new 32 gb set of ddr3 1866 from amazon for really cheap. It's done really well in the past but now it's just my main Linux pc i occasionally work on and slowly upgrade ever since I built a new PC for gaming.
I realize that I don't want to stress the board too much with new gpus and such so I'm sticking with hardware upgrades that work with as little bottlenecks as possible so I can make this thing survive for as long as possible in the event my new main PC dies
I’m waiting on thermal paste and then I’ll have the fx8350 16gb ram gtx1060 3gb with 500gb nvme ssd then two 750gb hdds that I’m hoping to raid 0 maybe. Not sure if it’s necessary. Thinking I’ll run os off hdd and put games on ssd??
@@forfun6273 I just got a 4tb hdd for mine in case I want games
Still rocking mine. I only play Elder Scrolls Online and it still does the job
There is so much room for improvement in the 8350. Not just overclocking the cpu but the ram,Northbridge,hypertransport. Also nvme drives do work on my motherboard with a adapter.
I am very proud of my system and is probably one of the fastest ones out there at the moment.
Really really wanted FX 8320 back in the day, had Athlon ii x4 631. Now rocking 7950X . Still Love to see FX series get some love!
Me too
those are my settings:
AMD FX-8350 4.7Ghz 1.475V(1.392v under load) | LLC Medium
Northbridge 2600Mhz | CPU/NB 1.3V(1.343v underload) | LLC Regular
HyperTransport 2600Mhz
DDR3 2400Mhz CL10(Command Rate 2) 1.65V
CPU Power capability +30%
Cinebench R15: Single 111-112cb | Multi 751-754cb
Cinebench R23: Single 616 | Multi 4088
NB and Ram help with minimum fps, and response.
Running the DDR 2400Mhz CL10 at CR1 i had some issues, could be from cpu memory controller.
I Would recommend running Medium LLC on CPU, don't go above for 24/7 use.
use Cinebench R15 for Temp testing, run it on loops and Linpack or Prime95 for stability test.
Cinebench R15 produces the most Heat, Linpack lowers the voltage more than Prime and Cinebench thats why i think it's better for stability.
Cinebench R23 is a joke :P, compared to R15.
oh and FX-9590 runs 1-4threads at 5Ghz, 5-8threads at 4.7Ghz.
Going beyond 4.7Ghz all core, means surpassing FX-9590, My CPU doesn't like to go above 4,8Ghz for some reason even with ridiculous voltage.
if i close cores: 4core goes up to 5Ghz, 6core up to 4.9Ghz and 8core 4.7-4.8Ghz max.
AND
When they say 1.55V Max i think they mean, your peak voltage spike to not go above 1.55V.
so putting 1.55V means that your voltage will go above 1.55V when it spikes, that means there is possibility for the cpu to degrade over time.
AMD says 61.1C max for FX-8350(4Ghz with boost 4.2Ghz), however on FX-9590(4.7Ghz with 5Ghz boost) it says 57c max.
I Don't think it helps amd to put 57c on their hotest running CPU, so i wouldn't just ignore it for daily use.
AAAND :D, use Hwinfo64 for monitoring CPU voltage underload and temps.
Lastly for PCIE 2.0 Hardware the Best GPU is those with PCIE X16, like RX 580,RX5700,RX5700XT etc.
Intel and Nvidia GPU Driver have CPU overhead and that is the reason i wouldn't recommend using those.
i hope my info helped even a little
I had an fx8300 until 3 years ago. I hated it for its terrible performance, but am also really appreciative of all the knowledge I gained from overclocking it. I always loved tech and been around it all my life basically but that cpu really fueled a passion in me for this stuff. I ended up giving the system (with my old 1070) to a friend for his local small business and ot may not be doing any stressful work but it has found a peaceful place to spend the rest of its life.
My first pc had a FX 6300 and 380x. At the time it handled the simple games I wanted to play and I upgraded to a 970 and retired that pc in 2020. I gave my FX 6300 and 970 to a family member who plays esports titles and its still chugging along
It really gives me hope for current high-end hardware having some serious longevity.
Just retired my fx 8320 two weeks ago. It was a great run. Now on Ryzen 5600 and it’s deliciously smooth.
My old desktop has an FX 8320e overclocked to 4.4Ghz, 16GB 1600mhz DDR3, 2.5mm SSDs and a GTX 1650 GDDR6. It still runs most modern AAA games fine with a 30fps cap. The 1650 seems to be a good match in performance for it. I could overclock it higher but I'm only using an inexpensive Red Dragon tower cpu cooler. I mainly just use it now to test new game performance to see how it runs. Definitely has impressed me.
This sounds eerily like my old (now my kids') desktop, except mine has an RX 580 and Hyper 212 Evo cooler. It runs Fortnite and Forza 5 just fine (after the awful load times of course). I was stunned that it could actually run Hogwarts Legacy in a playable state.
Antec is actually amazing for budget PC accessories. I had an fx8350 and an older antec cooler. Could not find the AM3 adapter to use it with fx8350. Called them and they sent the part for free.
Thank you for the vid! I have this bad bad boy in my rig with 2x 5000 series AMD graphics cards. Haven’t upgraded since.
I’m still using mine paired with a nvidia 2080ti aio. CPU has a double rad aio. With 32gb of 1866ghz DDR3. Multiple ssd’s different sizes. Using a saberthooth motherboard. Was thinking about buying a newer one recently but there isn’t anything wrong with my setup when playing modern titles in 4K high setting. Looking to spending about 2k on my next build to last me another 11 years hopefully. Built my own case using an ikea tv unit and glass shelves to direct air flow. 7 fans in total. Runs very quite as air flow is plenty. Although the fans I have only run as low as 800rpm and up to 1200rpm. Magnetic lift fans. Both rads are top mounted and 280mm. Used a kitchen splash back as a front panel and fitted a remote control usb led lighting at the top to illuminate the case. It also has all my 1:32 fast and furious cars in the case as a display. You can barely see the computer inside because of the cars lol 😂 runs at room temperature on ideal and no more then 55•c on gpu and 37ish for the CPU. I know I have epic bottle necks with the 2080ti but I will transplant it in to my new computer in the future. Also have a 850w gold power supply. Thanks for reading 👍🏻
Still rocking with my FX 8320
Nice build - good result. Thanks for taking the time to do this. This shows The AM3+ platform can still be a good.
nephew is using mine. my old rig for runescape. if i can remember its an 8350 black edition, 16gb ddr3, gtx 760ti, on an asrock extreme 3.0 board i think. i was playing wow on it until i upgraded to a 2700x 4 or 5 years ago
Before my 3600 I had a 1055t and a 8320 before that I couldn't figure the benefit of the 8350 over 8320 all things considered
This is a great idea to test it out I've never had this chip, but I've heard this a couple of years back the first time, so I'm glad somebody took the time to check it out, but I'd not use this at all for everyday usage.
I'm still rocking the 8350 in 2023 with no problems to run any modern games. Nice video!
Have you done NorthBridge overclocking? It really helps to squeeze out a few more % of the system.
Hello, my mashine is still alive, I use a FX-8385 CPU (without overClocking) and 32 gb RAM (4x8 gb Geil/ Black Dragon ) and a Radeon RX 570, with 8GB, I mainly use my machine for the home office, but I also play games now and then, most of the games actually run quite well!! Sometimes I also connect my daughter's oculus to the computer using a link cable or WiFi. I really enjoy playing half-life with it, and it works surprisingly well.😃
Ran fx8350 from jan 2013 to december 2020. It served me well in 1080p. Even when i retired it, only a few games dropped below 60fps maxed out in 1080p for me with an rx580.
I got an fx 8350 in 2022 because it was the maximum cpu upgrade for my current mb, and I hadn't budgeted out a new build yet. It still works great on med-high settings with newer games, and I can edit 4k video pretty smoothly with gpu acceleration (1050 ti).
Once I get a new build I'll set this one up as a server/NAS.
It's interesting that the 1% lows were consistently better at stock clocks. Not by much, but consistent. I mostly still game (weekends) on an fx8350, currently supporting an rx580. I recently built a 5800x3D based machine and in demanding newish titles it's great. But the old beast still runs old games very well, albeit with greater power consumption (its been at 4.6ghz since 2013). At its OC that's around 225 watts. The Corsair H80i has never been removed, I just keep the rad and fans free of dust. Under load, like Red Dead, it peaks at 53°.
I just purchased one of these, an FX8350 used to replace my AMD FX6300. I built my first gaming PC about five years ago using all secondhand parts with a friend. Now for the first time, I'm building a gaming PC on my own. Also replacing my GPU (Nvidia Quadrok4000) with the Quadrok5000). Rocking 32GB of RAM on a microATX mobo. Excited to see what the finished product will look like and how long it will last.
EDIT: So I ended up swapping out the GPU for the QuadroK5000 and the improvement in performance was noticeable but negligible. I was finally able to play Monster Hunter: World at around 30 FPS on medium - low settings. Not the most ideal, but it got the job done and the game to load! Hell Let Loose, which is very CPU/GPU intensive was playable on Ultra settings but at 20-30 FPS depending on the area of the map or how much action was going on. The original upgrade that I did after seeing this video gave me very little returns on the investment in terms of performance, but it was a great experience that taught me a lot about system building. Thanks so much for helping aid that!
Man I loved overclocking this CPU. I had my HT and NB running at 2600MHz and my CPU at 4.7GHz @ 1.375V or something like that. Plus 32GB of 1866MHz DDR3. My motherboard the Asus TUF Sabertooth 990FX R2.0 even supported NVMe boot. It was great for programming and esports games.
Sabertooth is a beast! Good job on the 2600 across the board. I was able to get 2700 north and 3100ish on the hyper. My cpu is at 4.89 at very similar voltage.
Ram had improvements at almost 2400 for my 2133 gskills(primary/secondary tight timings helped pushed it farther).
Good job
I’m currently running a sabertooth 990fx gen3 r2.0 with pcie 3.0. With an NVME adapter in a PCIE x16 slot I’m getting transfer rates of 3200 mb/s… no problem with optimizing shaders here ;). Run’s Fortnite 1080p on epic settings with an average fps in the 80s. Only hiccup I had was I needed to modify the bios to get the NVME to be recognized as a bootable drive
@@MereMortalsAttempt I haven't got a nvme drive yet installed but with prices dropping like they are....looking at it soon
2:28 why not 32gb of ram? many new games uses more than 16gb
Hi i built a fx6100 for my grandson last year for Christmas also i have got the fx6300 and fx8350 that i use everyday without complaints surffing the internet great my main game warthunder witch is great gets into windows from bios 28 seconds SSD main drive loved the video.
1:48 could have picked like 90% of the gpu's from the pascal era to do that.
Just put a FX 8300 in my dude's computer I sold him, he bought a Gtx 1080 and it's playing Hogwarts man. Super impressed
Rocked an FX-4100 and "upgraded" to a gtx 1060 3gb years ago. Tried tweaking that system to maintain a solid 45 fps in my main game. Mostly succeeded.
Loved seeing what LS did with AMD; big fan boy of competition & innovation.
Heh.. been running this cpu for past 12 years with a gtx 1070. Just bumped it up to 32gb ram. Few games were hitting the 16gb limit.
Just saw the Aio... mine went out about the 10 yr mark. Repaste and installed evo 212. Runs cool now.
But its almost time to build a new one.
A couple years back I was using a FX 4350. With an overclock (I got mine to 4.7GHz on air) it was a great chip, matching the performance of an i3 4130. The AM3+ platform isn't quite dead yet, but it's close. It's dying out like the Core 2 Quad did a couple years back.
I was able to pick up a deal on an X99 board with an i7 5930K and 16GB RAM and an NVMe SSD. Such a huge difference compared to the 4350. I passed my old 4350 system onto my sister, and she's quite happy with the performance.
When you overclocked it, you also should have overclocked the hypertransport link. It makes a pretty good improvement.
Haven't heard that name in a long time :P.
I came to say this. He should do a follow up video where he tries to optimize the platform some more.
ram as well, he said he was using 1600 and it will do well over 2133 with a mild OC
I'm running a 9590fx liquid cooled and see no need for overclock...memory needs tweaking running 32 mb 1866mhz gskill now. They really needed a second memory controller to reach full potential with these systems...I need a video card upgrade to bring her back to full on potential again. 990fXa-ud7 board Good to see peeps at least looking at these systems again. I'm building a brand new system now with a 8320fx I got cheap for fun out of a brand new mobo I found in a parts box...should be fun. Can't wait to upgrade to a r9 system on a am5 board to play with the newest toys again. Thanks for sharing.
Got a back up system with the FX6350 OC'd to 4.5ghz on a basic Biostar board with 16gb ddr3 and a R9 280x Does well in a pinch.
Those 6350s were great, I was running a 6100 wanting one of those lol
I'm still running 2 amd FX processors one is a 6300 6 core and the other is a 8320, I don't game and never had any issues. Both systems are rocking 16 gigs of memory
My old gaming PC had one of these with a 770. Now I have it in my living room as a media PC.
Fun video! I ran an FX8320 for a few years, until the first gen Ryzen CPUs hit the scene, so I think I retired mine around 2017. That meant the 8320 had a good three-ish year run. I loved it for the whole time I used it. But I also wasn't all that sad to see it put out to pasture. I'd guess these CPUs would fare better in modern titles if they supported AVX2.
Same story here 😆
I had a FX 8370e with a RX 390, had that PC for like 10 years got rid of it in 2022. I really liked that PC.
I wonder how long my 6600 xt will last i'm new to PC gaming lmao good thing i got a i5-12400 with my pc
@@MalikATL at 1080p you will be fine for a while! Some newer games might be more demanding so youll have to adjust quality settings but other than that you are good!
@@MalikATL Depends on what resolution you play games in, if you play in 1080p you should be okay, you will have to adjust graphic settings on some games. Also depends on the types of games you play. I am on a 7900xtx so I can play everything at max settings using FSR2.
I had an FX-8350 for a couple of years and wasnt a bad CPU to be honest, I had a Phenom II 1090T and it was missing new SSE instructions some games needed so instead of building a hole new system I was just able to replace the Phenom II with an FX-8350 and was able to use the computer just fine for another couple of years with out any real issues until I later upgraded to Ryzen with a R5 3600 CPU, the FX-8350 for me came in clutch as Ryzen was already out and I got a decent deal on it and saved me spending out on a whole new platform as im glad I did as it allowed me to hold out till Ryzen 3000 came out.
im running a AMD FX 8320E and a GTX 660 soon to be a 980 and 32gb of ram and 2 Tb of samsung 870 evo storage and ngl its not a bad pc for this day of age
me in 2024 with a 8350 still playing games lol
Not only is he a master at configuring optimal computer components., You seem to be a master of marketing. I admire your attention to detail. Be successful.
Oh! I overclock mine at 4.8 when gaming with no issues too!
Hey can you please do a video comparison between the Sata 3 ssd and instead using a nvme ssd on a pcie x 16 adapter card. you might get up to 30 percent better performance
I absolutely HATE those clips that some aio companies use and avoid those at all costs. Personally, I think that having a screw in each corner offers better and more even mounting pressure. I almost got a corsair h150 until I found out it used those clips, so I ended up getting a waterforce x360 instead for my 7700x cpu. Anyway, great video. It's always fun to see how older hardware performs compared to today's hardware
Yes, I Its ADM Vishera, and Its rocking in my PC.
FX 8320 / 4.3 Ghz overclock - Rx6600 1080p games... Works great...
Still got an Asus and Gigabyte board and 8320 and 8350 cpu just sitting in a box which still work and were used until not long after cyberpunk came out running the game pretty well in Medium settings.
Changed it up to 3600XT with EVGA 2060 KO Ultra, then to 5600 with Gigabyte RTX 3060. Had many brands of laptops with different combos, and buying another with 13980 and a 4080, but none of these have lasted and stood the test of time like my FX series.
damnnn i really did not expect such good results
I've used the FX 8350 for 7 years till 2019, a friend of mine ist still using it for Office und small games.
After moving back to Vegas from Washington in 2015, I decided to buy myself my first gaming computer because all of my friends in Washington had one, and it was going to be a great way for us to keep n touch. At the time, I didn't even know you could game on a pc so it was all pretty new to me. I didn't do research on anything either b4 buying a computer and didn't reach out for advice 😅. I bought myself a fx 4300 which was paired with a gt 1030 lol. 8gb, 500gb hd, on a Asrock 970m motherboard. it cost me $300. I still don't know if I was ripped off for the purchase but either way, I managed to do some light gaming with it until 2019 when I finally bought myself an upgrade. I've had about 12 different systems since then, the only that remains around without being traded or sold, is my fx4300 system. its still what I use for my business computer and I've changed only a power supply in that time. Love it.
In 2024 My pc runs ok with 8350 gets me what I need currently trying out overclocking but I know time to upgrade is coming with windows 10 end of life support in 2025 😢
Used an fx-8350 on that same board with a custom waterloop. It ran 5ghz @ 1.52v for 5 years before I updated to Ryzen. This vid is making me want to get those parts out and put it back together haha.
I remember when I built my first gaming pc in the devils canyon era, I spent so much time researching and comparing products. Even back then, anything from intel kinda destroyed the FX lineup in terms of gaming performance. Like even an overclocked x58 i7 will beat this chip (i think). Thanks for making this video, cause it made me realize its not as terrible as I thought haha.
I built my boys PC with an FX 8320. It has an rx570. Not a bad gaming PC.
FX 8350 here . also running the same Gigabyte MB with a white edition gigabyte 2060 super video card.
yes it still games. I run an fx 8350 (upgraded from an fx-8320) with artic silver 5 thermal paste and a wraith prism cooler (typically for something like a for a 2700x). the gpu I use in the build is an rx 5500 xt gaming x which came bundled with godfall when I got it. it runs the game just fine, although have to adjust most higher end games to turn down particle effect and disable motion blur it is still a decently capable cpu
when your done it will be like an I7 no stutters or holds and slows due to system adaptation curves in visible ranges
Still rocking in my rig.
Sabertooth 990fx r2.0
AMD FX8350 with Noctua cooler
16GB DDR3
GTX 970
Still rocking this in a windows 8.1 system and crossfire setup. HD 7800 series.
very good video bro, cheers!
what was the song that you used for the benchmarks at 12:41? I don't see it listed in the description
Tobu Louder Now, it's in the description
@@nerdonabudget thank you! love the vids man
I am watching this video on my sons old gaming PC. It is an FX8350 with 32gb 1866mhz ram, 1tb ssd, and an EVGA 2060. I don't really game so to me this thing works great. I am a computer tech so I do appreciate faster computers. Buy what is in your budget and make it work.
Bought a 8300 for my brother for $40.00 and a matx mobo for $100 on the egg. He's buying the case. Had the RAM already and giving him my old Rx580 so I basically saved $150+ on the important parts albeit at a cost of Am4 performance and efficiency but for him it'll be good enough. Coming to about $400 total for the build including cooler, psu, mouse & keyboard. Good thing here is he can upgrade to AM4 without buying anything else if he wants.
That's dope. 4.9 ghz? Wow. Gonna bust out my 8320e and 990fx board and do a build around it. Used to have it on a h60i but never pushed it past 4.4.
I am running a 8350 with 16 gig ram and runs like a charm no other adjustments 2 it and it can play most of my games now like forzer 5 and morr
My youngest is still running an FX 8320 paired with an HD7870.....1080p gaming no problem.
really like the video. though i would have loved to see power draw stock vs OCed
As for me, I had an FX-8150. Plenty of games can run on that, just check the Intel processor specs and compare those to the specs of the FX you're using.
Games I ran on that:
Doom (2016)
Doom Eternal
Batman Arkham Origins
SAO Alicization Lycoris
Mortal Kombat 9, 10, 11
Street Fighter 5
Honkai Impact 3rd
Genshin Impact
Megaman X Dive (through Bluestacks and Vulkan for graphics API, use Vulkan when you can on older systems if you have the option and are running AMD)
Daemon X Machina
Borderlands 2 and 3
Gears V
Various other older games.
Note that I was running a Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO with Noctua fans on the front and back, with a rear Noctua fan and two front side fans (that's just how my case is). Memory was two 16Gb Ripjaws X 1866MHz memory kits for 32Gb total. The videocard was switched from the initial MSI Lightning 2 6970 to an RX580, and lastly, to an ASUS Dual AMD Radeon RX6600 (a part of the AM4 upgrade).
Note: For a number of games, I am running them from a RAID 1 7200RPM mechanical hard drive setup, some were run off of a 1Tb 7200RPM mechanical hard drive, while others were running from the OS SSD (2TB). These are all SATA III drives. OS is Windows 10 with a 27 inch 2560x1440 60Hz monitor. Frame rates varied a bit, but mostly high/medium settings, which got me well above 50fps (some games came close to 60), lows were near 30fps or a bit above, but I didn't see slow downs anywhere. Loading times varied by the game (Fallout 4 has a longer wait for brand new areas, but not 5 minutes for them. The RAID 1 may have helped there).
I have done some upgrades since to a Ryzen 5800X, Dark Rock Pro 4 for the CPU Cooler (got the same front fan that came with the cooler mounted on it's back), a Noctua 3000RPM capable fan for the back of the case, DDR4 32Gb (two sticks, 3200MHz with timings enabled through the eqivilent to XMP), and an ASUS Crosshair VII Dark Hero motherboard. Surprisingly, even with the upgrades, frame rates haven't changed, but that 6600 is less than three years old (October of 2021), and that CPU is an 8 core 16 thread item. I'm not sure what I can do aside from going down to 1080p (would like to keep 2560x1440 since that is native to the monitor, DisplayPort connection, btw), but you'd think the frame rate would have improved with the card change from the RX580 to the RX 6600. I even have a small overclock to the card (I had to step it back a bit when I got the Spider-Man Miles Morales game) so you'd think even with the VSync turned on and set to 60 I'd see constant 60's.
If anyone has ideas besides swapping the videocard or processor, feel free to reply.
I'm using a 8320. I routinely get up to 79C. Occasionally 81. I'm not sure of the temp it starts limiting at. I'm not saying it's good, but I'm routinely peaking at 79.