Buying AMD Gaming PC, need advice

[Pemalite]

fatslob-:O said:

Pemalite said:

fatslob-:O said:

I'm sure an FX-8350 will perform fine on integer workloads but it falls way behind when attempting to go against applications that need the floating point performance and even more behind when depending on single threaded peformance.

That goes without saying because of how AMD designed the chips where they shared the floating point unit across 2 "cores".
But that was for a reason, which won't come to fruition for a few years yet. (Having the IGP take over some of that task.)

That was a bad idea in general. What AMD still doesn't understand is that there is a need for serialized floating point and integer workloads. AMD fusion was a decent idea if not for all the delays but AMD bulldozer was a total disaster, period. It mostly only shows incompetence on their CPU division. I think AMD is better off copying intel's core architecture.

Well. Bulldozer was a disaster, I don't think anyone could argue with that.
But what it did accomplish is mid-range performance for a good price, granted only if you have cheap energy prices. :P

AMD should go back to it's Stars architecture and tweak it, it's a better starting point than the FX.