How long will the FX 8320/8350 (O/Ced) still be good enough for high end gaming
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Ivan Myring
July 22, 2013 4:05:46 PM
Ivan Myring
July 22, 2013 4:15:08 PM
Traciatim said:
Is it good for high end gaming now? I thought it was for the budget conscience gamer who doesn't care about efficiency. Fine, let me rephrase that. How long will it be able to play games on very high settings? And perform in intensive use? Assuming it was used with a good GPU/other hardware
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8350rocks said:
It should be fine for quite some time to come...it will be good for at least as long as any other CPU out there.EDIT: Don't mind the Intel crowd...they like to brag about faster iTunes downloads...
Maybe we like to brag because their gear is far superior currently, but you can keep shilling your awesome room heating advantage.
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probably not 5 years, maybe 3. But there will be an increasing trend of games taking advantage of 8 core cpu's, like the fx 8350, in the future. Being such a close price to something like the i5 3570k (at least in my country, Australia), for gaming you would always take the i5. The i5 it is better overall for gaming and more versatile, it does well in well threaded games and games that aren't well threaded, and FPU heavy games. Some examples - You will see a big difference in something like Skyrim, that is actually well threaded and see's a benefit from 8 core cpu's, but the FX 8 core cpu's only have 4 FPU's that aren't very powerful, and the intel cpu's dominate. Something like Crysis 3 evens things up, it is well threaded and the i5's run overall pretty similar to the 8350, depending on the reviewer and benchmark scenario. A game like BF3 isnt cpu demanding at all and will run on either cpu almost identically. Overall with the i5, you don't miss out on performance in any gaming scenario.
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