FX4170 Seems Better Than FX 8350 On My M/B ?

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I just purchased an FX 8350 to replace my FX 4170 & I found it to be sluggish although Win Exp Rating said 7.7 instead of 4.2, that does not prove it better & I have a game which tells me in the amount of glitches how good a processor is, well that's my benchmark for testing with & the games kept stopping like a bottleneck & in idle Win7 seemed slow to react so I have sent the processor back to Amazon for a full refund.
So I think it was not compatable with my M/B or as it is the first gen of AMD Octo core it is glitch tec cpu?
What do you lot think ?

Thanks in advance

Jonathan
 
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on my profile my pc - M5A78L-M USB3 / CiT 950 PSU / Temp was about 40 to 45c
 
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well the board is cheap now but was not in 2011, back then I think it did not support that chip.
 
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I personally think this board suit the FX4170 best it may be quad core but it will do until we get to 6Ghz cpu's I am not upgrading,..
 
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I think you just over-rating the octo core processor performance, it will run at the bus speed of the motherboard & not try to push it, its a computer after all.
Motherboard are all the same to me you pay rip of off prices to have board with big heatsinks on it & fancy bright colours - big deal, you can glue aluminium onto the chips quite cheaply which does the same job - I am saying that octo core foes not suit this good m/b combination, perhaps future m/b design will work better but by then we should have some quite decent speed processors.

The fact is my processor has outperformed the 8350 which is the first gen of octo core, by saying cheap m/b does not explain it to me, I want to know why ? for when I next purchase a m/b / cpu combination I will get it right for an octo core cpu
 
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I think you just over-rating the octo core processor performance, it will run at the bus speed of the motherboard & not try to push it, its a computer after all.
Motherboard are all the same to me you pay rip of off prices to have board with big heatsinks on it & fancy bright colours - big deal, you can glue aluminium onto the chips quite cheaply which does the same job - I am saying that octo core foes not suit this good m/b combination, perhaps future m/b design will work better but by then we should have some quite decent speed processors.

The fact is my processor has outperformed the 8350 which is the first gen of octo core, by saying cheap m/b does not explain it to me, I want to know why ? for when I next purchase a m/b / cpu combination I will get it right for an octo core cpu
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All motherboards are not the same and you do not have to pay rip-off prices to get a good motherboards. AMD cpus are power hogs and getting the right motherboards is everything for a 125w cpu. It is a fact, not an opinion, that 125w FX cpus do not run well on motherboards with 4+1 power phases. Those cheap motherboards cannot handle the heat output and causes throttling as a safety feature. The FX cpus all have low power states for throttling. Better motherboards with beefier 8+2 power phases and bigger heatsinks do a better job of dispersing the heat and containing the power. Capacitors also play a large roll in how much power the board can handle. Cheaper boards use cheaper caps.


This is a great motherboard with a 8+2 power phase for just $80

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3P ATX AM3+ Motherboard ($80.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Total: $80.99
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-09-30 17:33 EDT-0400






The FX83250 is a second gen 8 core cpu btw
 
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