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amd a10-7850k vs fx 8350

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January 23, 2014 6:17:48 AM

which is the better choice paired with a sapphire r9 280x toxic.

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January 23, 2014 6:19:46 AM

fx 8350. the apu has only half the cores running at lower speed.
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January 23, 2014 6:26:31 AM

The FX-8320, it's an underclocked 8350, but much cheaper. Then overclock it to 8350 speeds and you get an 8350 for the price of an 8320. Profit.
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January 23, 2014 6:34:10 AM

Francisco Costa said:
The FX-8320, it's an underclocked 8350, but much cheaper. Then overclock it to 8350 speeds and you get an 8350 for the price of an 8320. Profit.


normally this is true, but you can never be sure that the 8320 will work properly at 8350 speeds. yes, it's the exact same architecture and there's no reason for it not to work, but you're at the mercy of the binning process at amd.

it's possible also that you get a 8320 that will not be stable at the 8350 speeds no matter what you do and that's why it didn't get binned as 8350.

the 8350 is the safe choice, since it passed factory testing at those speeds.
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January 23, 2014 7:02:52 AM

boosted1g said:
8350 (or even an 8320 at factory speeds) is vastly superior in performance to the a10.

The only thing the a10 has going for it is that it has better integrated graphics. So the 8350 integrated graphics is a 2 on a 10 point scale, and the a10 is a 4. Once you add a dedicated GPU the a10 is now nothing but a bottleneck that will require you to buy a completley different motherboard to be able to upgrade.


in the interest of fairness... a 8350 is a 0 on the scale since it has no graphics at all. i agree with the rest and since he plans/has a r9 280x toxic the 8350 (or 8320) is clearly the better choice.
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