So like I mentioned in another thread, I got my 8350 and new mobo yesterday for my home server(up from OC'ed i3-540 lol....) and so far it's working great, though it pretty much ate my 300W flex PSU after 1 hour(shit was hot as hell when it died haha) so I currently have an old ass 430W laying outside the case for it while waiting for the new PSU lol....
I'm not exactly thrilled with the default fan noise and the amount of heat it generates compared to the old i3 but I do like it a lot better since I run a 4 camera surveillance setup that gets streamed online at 1280x960 via xsplit and it's using about 50% CPU power with no OC compared to the 80-100% OC'ed i3, which is very good since I also run PS3 Media Server, a Mumble server, and a FTP server, it also hosts a ton of data off the internal and external USB3 3TB HDD drives so more CPU head room for all those is always a good thing to have!
At this price level, it's excellent for server purposes even if it does use a little more power considering that I got the Newegg deal at 185 USD so I highly recommend it! The motherboards are cheaper too!
@all: Please! please! please don't use Quick Sync or GPU for video encoding! You guys are killing me! The quality from those are shit! Just stick to x264 for now! PLEASE!
