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I have an fx6300 and want to upgrade but my mobo only has 4 pins for cpu. Will an 8350 work with the four pins or will I need another mobo?
Fx8350 power consumption
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What board ???
Anything with only a 4pin atx connector is not going to be good enough for a 125w 8 core .
If you can run an 8 core then you can overclock the 6300 which is a free (well $20 cooler) option & almost comparable.
Wouldn't recommend anyone upgrading from a 6300 to an 8350 - just not a value for money upgrade at all.
Anything with only a 4pin atx connector is not going to be good enough for a 125w 8 core .
If you can run an 8 core then you can overclock the 6300 which is a free (well $20 cooler) option & almost comparable.
Wouldn't recommend anyone upgrading from a 6300 to an 8350 - just not a value for money upgrade at all.
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Agree with madmatt30. Overclocking may be your best bet here, but make sure your board can handle the extra power requirements. Purchasing an 8350 is going to get you one more CPU module, so you would have 4 modules instead of 3 (8 ALU cores VS 6, 4 splittable FPU cores VS 3,) but since the modules will be identical except in the default clock speeds, it will also net you more heat. IPC will remain the same.
Will this net you any performance? Depends on what you're doing. If you're not performing heavy multitasking with the system, using those last two ALUs and 1 FPU, probably not. How threaded is the software you run?
Your current 6300 should easily clock to the same speeds as any 8350 you could buy, provided your board supports it and your cooling is adequate, and the only benefit one chip can show over the other when not running heavily threaded tasks is clock speed.
Will this net you any performance? Depends on what you're doing. If you're not performing heavy multitasking with the system, using those last two ALUs and 1 FPU, probably not. How threaded is the software you run?
Your current 6300 should easily clock to the same speeds as any 8350 you could buy, provided your board supports it and your cooling is adequate, and the only benefit one chip can show over the other when not running heavily threaded tasks is clock speed.
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Yeah but my issue is that my cpu is broken lol. The board is a ga970ad31s I believe. I just need a replacement and figured i may aswell get an upgrade when I can. So I'll buy another fx6300 and then a $20 cooler and just over clock then? I use it mainly for playing first person shooter games (battlefield etc) but I've recently gotten into arma, which doesn't run too great. Overclocking would help for that? I've got an asus gtx 970 strix with it also. Thanks
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If you're already in a position where you are forced to purchase a new CPU, you might consider looking at a low cost i3 or i5 setup. Nothing in the FX line is going to give you good results in CPU bounds games such as ARMA unless overclocked quite a bit, which will likely cost more than a modest $20 cooler to keep adequately under your thermal limits.
I didn't find your specific motherboard you listed. Do you mean the "GA-970A-DS3P"? That board would support the higher power draw 8350, but I don't know if that's the one you meant.
I didn't find your specific motherboard you listed. Do you mean the "GA-970A-DS3P"? That board would support the higher power draw 8350, but I don't know if that's the one you meant.
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