Fx 8320, still doesn't suck

Yeah that fake core business again. No where in cpu design does it state that you need to have floating point unit for each core.

I know there are times when I wish I would have just stuck with my FX systems but, they did not have an ITX based mainboards. Oh, and the FX systems would not let me use M.2 as boot drives. Oh well, I am content, nonetheless, with my Ryzen systems.
 
I just slapped together an AMD FX rig for shitz and giggles.

ASUS M5A99FX PRO R2.0
FX8350 w Hyper 212
4x4gb Gskill 1333
Gigabyte GTX670
Seasonic 620w M2

Got ti to 4.7Ghz with 1.45v right off the starting gate. Had to add a 120mm towards the VRMs and another 120mm towards to the backside of cpu socket/VRMs as running P95 she was puttting out some serious fucking heat geez. Cpu ran pretty cool @ 54c under load, but the board's VRM's were cooking. Never had an AM3+ setup and now I remember why, lmao! Tested gaming on it with my 1070 and I played FC5/Sniper Elite 4 and with everything cranked I managed between 80-110 FPS and tho the board was frying chicken on the VRM's, it was rock steady stable.

So now I've had my fun with it and tossed it in the closet. Gonna sell it locally and use the funds towards a new rebuild of the main.
 
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i still have fairly fond memories of my Bulldozer/Piledriver systems. FX-8120 in 2012 OC'd to 4.2, Opteron 6344 3.2Ghz 12-core in 2014, FX-8320 OC'd to 4.4 in 2015. The only game I had performance issues with was Minecraft- for some reason (I blame Java?) the 8320 + R9 290X fell way behind a freakin Surface Pro 2! Mostly they were great systems and performed very very well for video & photo editing, especially the 12-core machine.

Lately I've been wondering, would it be worth it to pick up an FX chip+board to try undervolting? Despite the high-end parts gulping amps, the architecture itself seemed to scale pretty well all the way down to =<10W parts which suggests that maybe a cheap used 8-core Piledriver at ~35-45W could make an interesting option for things that want a lot of integer threads but don't care so much about single-thread IPC o_O
 
i still have fairly fond memories of my Bulldozer/Piledriver systems. FX-8120 in 2012 OC'd to 4.2, Opteron 6344 3.2Ghz 12-core in 2014, FX-8320 OC'd to 4.4 in 2015. The only game I had performance issues with was Minecraft- for some reason (I blame Java?) the 8320 + R9 290X fell way behind a freakin Surface Pro 2! Mostly they were great systems and performed very very well for video & photo editing, especially the 12-core machine.

Lately I've been wondering, would it be worth it to pick up an FX chip+board to try undervolting? Despite the high-end parts gulping amps, the architecture itself seemed to scale pretty well all the way down to =<10W parts which suggests that maybe a cheap used 8-core Piledriver at ~35-45W could make an interesting option for things that want a lot of integer threads but don't care so much about single-thread IPC o_O

For the price the things list for on ebay...no, buy a ryzen. I keep looking a picking up a full at board for my p2 945...then I see the mobo cost and slap myself back to reality. If ddr4 was still expensive then maybe...but now, avoid the am3 stuff
 
For the price the things list for on ebay...no, buy a ryzen. I keep looking a picking up a full at board for my p2 945...then I see the mobo cost and slap myself back to reality. If ddr4 was still expensive then maybe...but now, avoid the am3 stuff

<thinking> they can't be that bad
<checks ebay>
holy moly! that's almost what i paid for my R5 1600 @ Microcenter

i do however see FX cpu+board+memory combos for well under $100 on local craigslist somewhat often which is how this train of thought got going. undervolt for a server? or something to do with low-intensity VMs? idk, i just like thinking up uses for old hardware. like all the C2 Q6600's we were doing weird stuff with a few years back
 
<thinking> they can't be that bad
<checks ebay>
holy moly! that's almost what i paid for my R5 1600 @ Microcenter

i do however see FX cpu+board+memory combos for well under $100 on local craigslist somewhat often which is how this train of thought got going. undervolt for a server? or something to do with low-intensity VMs? idk, i just like thinking up uses for old hardware. like all the C2 Q6600's we were doing weird stuff with a few years back

I've had this train of thought about old hardware, too. How I wound up with a tesla k40...
 
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