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I have a FX63000, it heats up very fast... I do not recommend...
In my opinion, the Intel system is just trash and pointless. Seeing as many games nowadays won't even start without a 4 core processor, you can clearly see how that's a problem.
Same thing could be said about the AMD system. The FX platform is just old, hot and power hungry. Considering that the new AM4 boards and Ryzen cpus are out, i think it would be best to go for those instead.
The FX line are really outdated and at the current price of Ryzen it's really not worth it for the FX line
Intel currently win in the IPC (single-core performance) area, which applies to 90% of games, since most games don't really use more than one or two cores due to terrible engines. Most gamers will go for Intel due to IPC, for creativity (Sony Vegas, 3D rendering, etc.) or streaming while gaming - Ryzen is the best bet. Once Zen+ and Zen 3 release, Intel won't have so much of a gap in terms of IPC.
IPC doesn't matter when you're comparing an 8 core monster to a dual core tiny mouse. The Pentium cores are limited by the TDP and the low amount of cache and won't win any performance awards. On the other hand, the FX cores are fast due to high frequency and higher cache.
Also, many games nowadays benefit from high core counts. Some even benefit from faster RAM, like GTA V.
DragonSeth By the way, that motherboard won't even run an FX 8350 for more than a couple of months before frying. The power delivery stage is weak af and it won't be able to sustain the high amperage that an FX needs for long. Minimum recommended for an FX, even the 95W TDP FX 8300, is a solid chipset 970 board like the Gigabyte GA-970-UD3P or DS3P.
IPC doesn't matter when you're comparing an 8 core monster to a dual core tiny mouse. The Pentium cores are limited by the TDP and the low amount of cache and won't win any performance awards. On the other hand, the FX cores are fast due to high frequency and higher cache.
Also, many games nowadays benefit from high core counts. Some even benefit from faster RAM, like GTA V.
IPC matters a heck of a lot since most applications do not need to use or just weren't designed for more than 4 cores. You're right games like GTA V, Battlefield and a few others handle more cores better (as well as RAM speed) - however you are incredibly wrong about FX cores being fast. The FX cores are in fact incredibly slow, but excel in applications that do need to use more cores. The FX line aren't actually true 8 core CPUs since 2 cores share 1x L1 cache, 1x L2 cache, Fetch, Decoder and 1 FPU. Thus, making the cores incredibly slow for single threaded / low core usage applications. The sharing of modules REALLY killed the performance of the FX series and the only way AMD could survive until Ryzen and to slightly increase the performance of the FX series was by clocking it higher, which means more heat.
Higher frequency does not always mean it will performance massively different if the core design is completely wrong for todays tasks. While AMD predicted applications would head towards a more multi-threaded design, they were off by about 12 years. Even now adoption for multi-threaded applications is very slowly picking up.
You do know that you're preaching to the choir, right? I'm well versed in hardware, having designed and recommended thousands of systems, and thus i'm well aware that the FX cores are slow, but they sure as hell aren't slower than Pentium cores, for the reasons I've stated in my previous post. You should know this...
The builds have already been updated. Yes pentium cores are pretty slow. But it was a budget cpu. FX cores are slow but there not terrible. As its a hex-a core processor. This was my first time recommending a system. So chill out.
And for AMD being outdated yes they was. But now they are beating intel for the first time in a while. Intel new I9 CPU was just dumb. And a fail attempt to fight against AMD.
Also i have been building systems for about 3-4 years now. So i know some about hardware to.
Also AMD was never good at single performance until ryzen and everyone knew that.