Hi everyone,
I've been a proud user of an FX 6300 for 3 years. Recently I've been gifted an FX 8350 from a friend to pair with my RX 480 which was being held back by the FX 6300. It really improved my situation in most of the games I play and played, but it has an issue where the memory controller is damaged and it can't make use of the third and fourth memory slots of the motherboard. I had 2x8 GBs of RAM in Dual Channel with my FX 6300, but I had to put the second stick on the second Slot instead of the third otherwise I would've 16 GBs of RAM with 8 GBs Hardware Reserved. (Yeah that's what happens). So the Slots A1 and A2 are working, while the B1 and B2 aren't so I am forced to use Single Channel memory. On AIDA64 RAM benchmarks show literally half the speed I had previousely with my FX 6300 at 4.0 GHz and 1600 MHz (10-10-10-30 2T) compared to the speed in MB/s I get with the FX 8350 at 4.5 GHz and the RAM at 2133 MHz (10-12-12-31 2T).
How much does this affects gaming? I am mostly playing BF1 Multiplayer getting rock solid 60 FPS except in 64 Players sessions where I drop to 50-55 FPS quite often. I am willing to get back to the FX 6300 and bring it to 4.5 GHz with Dual Channel memory, or buy another FX 8350 since its cheap and its the only thing I could afford right now. Which one of the two gives me smoother performance.
System:
AMD FX 8350 4.5 GHz, FSB 2400 MHz, NB 2400 MHz with Seidon 120V
RX 480 Nitro+ 4 GB
ASRock 970 Pro3 R2.0
16 GBs of RAM at 2133 MHz 10-12-12-31 2T at 1.585 V
I've been a proud user of an FX 6300 for 3 years. Recently I've been gifted an FX 8350 from a friend to pair with my RX 480 which was being held back by the FX 6300. It really improved my situation in most of the games I play and played, but it has an issue where the memory controller is damaged and it can't make use of the third and fourth memory slots of the motherboard. I had 2x8 GBs of RAM in Dual Channel with my FX 6300, but I had to put the second stick on the second Slot instead of the third otherwise I would've 16 GBs of RAM with 8 GBs Hardware Reserved. (Yeah that's what happens). So the Slots A1 and A2 are working, while the B1 and B2 aren't so I am forced to use Single Channel memory. On AIDA64 RAM benchmarks show literally half the speed I had previousely with my FX 6300 at 4.0 GHz and 1600 MHz (10-10-10-30 2T) compared to the speed in MB/s I get with the FX 8350 at 4.5 GHz and the RAM at 2133 MHz (10-12-12-31 2T).
How much does this affects gaming? I am mostly playing BF1 Multiplayer getting rock solid 60 FPS except in 64 Players sessions where I drop to 50-55 FPS quite often. I am willing to get back to the FX 6300 and bring it to 4.5 GHz with Dual Channel memory, or buy another FX 8350 since its cheap and its the only thing I could afford right now. Which one of the two gives me smoother performance.
System:
AMD FX 8350 4.5 GHz, FSB 2400 MHz, NB 2400 MHz with Seidon 120V
RX 480 Nitro+ 4 GB
ASRock 970 Pro3 R2.0
16 GBs of RAM at 2133 MHz 10-12-12-31 2T at 1.585 V
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