disolitude on 24 September 2012
| Lusche said: but to be fair the phenoms are only $50-80 (depends on which one you choose) you wont get that performance from any intel cpu for that price range. for an i5 you have to pay like ~$170, but you will notice the difference. most amd users know that. but there are some delusional amd users who think it can compete against a cpu 3x expensive than their own ... but for most things a phenom would be enough (not counting the newer amd ones since they arent that good), but it still has its limitation. |
New AMD chips are good for some things, but not gaming right out of the box... Very few games utilize more than 4 cores and most are still using 2, so an 8 core processor is like an FX 8120 clocked at 3.1 GHZ is going to be at a disadvantage.
The good news for FX owners is that they overclock extremely well. Me and a friend of mine took his FX 8120 all the way to 4.5 ghz on a 40 dollar air cooler and its stable as a rock. At that clock speed it was slightly faster than my 3.7 Ghz overclocked Phenom for gaming, and much much faster for any multi-threaded application.
I may make a thread one of these days about how to maximize the AMD FX series CPUs as there are some tricks to it.
