I have an Phenom II x4 965 OC to 4.2ghz (Will be 24/ stable with my new mobo, which supports AM3+ as well)
I was looking into the FX's, when they first arrived they were raved to be the Intel Killer, but i knew that honestly, AMD is a budget company, they make very good CPU's for the avarage joe. Not the guy who spends 400 bucks on a processor, and I love that about AMD. When they got into testing, everybody hated them, said they were below par, but like a new gfx card, some patches and drivers will come out which will stabalize preformance, but i knew it would never touch some i5's and the i7's. (HUGE price difference for a reason).
Anyways, here is my question, to all AMD FX 8XXX owners:
Compared to the profomance of a phenom II, how does a FX 8 core handle in day to day tasks, and in gaming? (CPU intensive gaming as well like Crysis Wars, Battlefield 3 and Bc2, and GTA 4).
How far can this overclock with safe temps/ voltage? What are those limits? (I have a Hyper 212+ CPU Cooler)
Would I be able to achieve a consistant 4.5ghz OC on it?
And What is your imput regarding the new FX Processors? Should I wait for the next revision of Bulldozer? Like the Phenom's C1, c2, and c3?
I know its a lot of questions but non e of these has been answered by any forum i have look up or and benchmarking reviews i looked at.
Thank You!
I was looking into the FX's, when they first arrived they were raved to be the Intel Killer, but i knew that honestly, AMD is a budget company, they make very good CPU's for the avarage joe. Not the guy who spends 400 bucks on a processor, and I love that about AMD. When they got into testing, everybody hated them, said they were below par, but like a new gfx card, some patches and drivers will come out which will stabalize preformance, but i knew it would never touch some i5's and the i7's. (HUGE price difference for a reason).
Anyways, here is my question, to all AMD FX 8XXX owners:
Compared to the profomance of a phenom II, how does a FX 8 core handle in day to day tasks, and in gaming? (CPU intensive gaming as well like Crysis Wars, Battlefield 3 and Bc2, and GTA 4).
How far can this overclock with safe temps/ voltage? What are those limits? (I have a Hyper 212+ CPU Cooler)
Would I be able to achieve a consistant 4.5ghz OC on it?
And What is your imput regarding the new FX Processors? Should I wait for the next revision of Bulldozer? Like the Phenom's C1, c2, and c3?
I know its a lot of questions but non e of these has been answered by any forum i have look up or and benchmarking reviews i looked at.
Thank You!
