This processor is incredibly powerful for multithreaded tasks . though per core performance is lesser to that of Intel processors, it surely destroys their pride in the multi core performance. This processor is wrongly compared with the Intel flagship processors. people who do so are dolts who misjudge it's category, it might be AMD's flagship but tends to fall in the same category as the top of the line core i5s. here competing with the core i5s it's surely an easy winner in majorly every aspect. considering the price point it can not be compared to current generation core i7s but it does easily defeat core i7 920 hailing from 1st generation. i have my older machine with core i7 920 setup on Asus Rampage II mobo. my newer machine has this FX8350 setup on Asrock 990FX Extreme4 mobo. for me AMD is a clear winner here. But the cons mentioned against this proc in online forums aren't altogether wrong either. i have faced certain BSODs, machine freezes, boot failures on my newer machine, though it's lil over a week old. the heatsink that comes along with this processor is extremely loud, it sounds more like the turbo jets of an aeroplane. sometimes the noise is audible even in my living room from the pc running in my bedroom. i had to lower the clock speed to 3.6 ghz so as to make the heatsink behave socially. other issue (though nothing went wrong) that i faced was that the HT link was running at much higher a frequency than NB. i had learned on several online forums that NB should never be lower than HT link. so when i encountered certain BSODs & system freezes, i lowered the HT link to 2200 Mhz & upped the NB to 2400 MHz. since then i haven't encountered any BSODs anymore. i am not sure whether these BSODs had anything to do with this NB-HT relation but my machine is running more stably since then. all in all it's a powerful processor, given that it's coupled with an equally feature rich & resourceful mobo
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