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Worthwhile upgrade: FX-8350BE from a 965BE?

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August 7, 2014 10:46:09 PM

I have a fairly half decent setup as I'll go into detail below. Most of my games seem to be cpu bottlenecked as not a lot of them really get my GPUs going and some games dip below 60fps which is just unacceptable on a 120hz monitor, heh. (And yes, I've looked into the games' individual settings for capping fps.)

Also, yes, I will be upgrading to broadwell in a couple years if it ever actually comes out. I plan on doing one more full rebuild once DDR4, SATA4, and etc are out. This is merely a drop-in upgrade to keep me going until then.

My system specs are as follows:

EVGA GeForce GTX 670 GPU w/ Backplate (x2, SLI)
EVGA GeForce GTX 460 SE GPU (PhysX)
AMD Phenom II x4 965 Black Edition CPU
Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO CPU Cooler (2x120mm in push/pull)
ASUS Sabertooth 990FX R2.0 MB
Crucial M4 64GB SSD (OS)
Western Digital Black 2TB HDD (Steam)
Samsung F4 2TB HDD (x2)
G.SKILL Ripjaws X 16GB DDR3 1333 RAM (4x4GB)
EVGA SuperNOVA 1000 P2 PSU
Cooler Master HAF 932 Advanced Case

Everything is stock clocks, though I hope to get the 8350 to 4.5 or so, even if I have to replace the EVO cooler with an h-100 or similar. So take that into account for the recommendations.

Thank you in advanced for all replies!

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August 7, 2014 11:00:13 PM

Octojay said:
I have a fairly half decent setup as I'll go into detail below. Most of my games seem to be cpu bottlenecked as not a lot of them really get my GPUs going and some games dip below 60fps which is just unacceptable on a 120hz monitor, heh. (And yes, I've looked into the games' individual settings for capping fps.)

Also, yes, I will be upgrading to broadwell in a couple years if it ever actually comes out. I plan on doing one more full rebuild once DDR4, SATA4, and etc are out. This is merely a drop-in upgrade to keep me going until then.

My system specs are as follows:

EVGA GeForce GTX 670 GPU w/ Backplate (x2, SLI)
EVGA GeForce GTX 460 SE GPU (PhysX)
AMD Phenom II x4 965 Black Edition CPU
Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO CPU Cooler (2x120mm in push/pull)
ASUS Sabertooth 990FX R2.0 MB
Crucial M4 64GB SSD (OS)
Western Digital Black 2TB HDD (Steam)
Samsung F4 2TB HDD (x2)
G.SKILL Ripjaws X 16GB DDR3 1333 RAM (4x4GB)
EVGA SuperNOVA 1000 P2 PSU
Cooler Master HAF 932 Advanced Case

Everything is stock clocks, though I hope to get the 8350 to 4.5 or so, even if I have to replace the EVO cooler with an h-100 or similar. So take that into account for the recommendations.

Thank you in advanced for all replies!



Looks good. I'd personally ditch the (physics card) as its not needed. The coolermaster cooler is about on par with a h100/105/110, so that's more of just a side grade than a upgrade. I'd opt for a 8320, as its the same chip. The 8320/8350/9530/9570 are all the same chips, just binned different. You can overclock the 8320 to 8350 guaranteed, I went with 8350 personally because I didn't know this at the time. You should be able to hit 4.4-4.5 on your coolermaster without any issues. Anything after that typically requires a lot more voltage and produces a lot more heat. I had to go full out all custom water to get my chip to 5.0, and got to 5.2 but thermals are still killing me, so run 4.8 to keep things cool. Another note for performance and better overclocking, is your 4x4gb ram, would be better off with 2x8 and higher timing.

ddr4 will take years before its actually a worthwhile upgrade. Right now adata has released ddr4 modules, but timings are very slow and any decent ddr3 will beat it. Broadwell will/should be here soon, but haswell e is the bigger/better/badder way to go. Sata 4 isn't needed. There are no ssd's out now that even come close to saturating sata 3, and i'm running 3xssd in raid off a single sata 3 in my laptop giving me 1500mbps speeds, so don't see sata 4 being 'needed' anytime soon, although it would be awesome if ssd's came out that needed an improvement.
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August 7, 2014 11:05:40 PM

Thank you for the reply! I have the dedicated physx card mostly because I can, I have the watts and slots to spare. Also, thanks for the suggestion about the 8320, though the 8350 is on sale right now and can be had for the same price. =)

I'll also keep my eyes open for some good deals on RAM as I was thinking the same thing. the 4x4 will be fine for now though, and xmas is coming, heh.

Thanks again!
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