13thmonkey :
cemerian :
depending on the games you plan on playing it can be a necessity for making them playable(mmo's and rts will not be playable until you oc,while mostly all single player games will be just fine)
I'm sorry but this is just wrong (the bit in bold). Please provide proof.
lol from personal experience, swotor, warthunder, world of planes, are not playable when there are a lot of things going on, swtor pvp isn't playable at all it cant even get over 25fps when the cpu was @5,2ghz need more proof just go check out forums of mmo's and you will se its littered with posts about terrible performance on fx parts, the simple fact is that the single thread performance on fx's is worse that it was on old thubans, and as far as multiplayer games are concerned it the only thing that matters to them, those games run on mostly 1 thread , i personally switched to intel because of that, i can finaly play pvp in swtor and get over 30fps at all times, not around 15 like with my fx, 16man ops where unplayable aswell, when you come to think of it even eso ran like shit wouldn't get past 40fps