( Tek Syndicate ) AMD 8-Core FX CPU Craziness: FX 8370 & FX 8370e

[CosmicSex]

Hynad said:

CosmicSex said:

It's hardly ever apples to apples. Although you have a point. The FX-8370 doesn't have an on-chip GPU. It has 8 cores though, compared to 4 for 4770k. Considering how things develop right now, more and more software are going to be built to harvest the performances of an 8 core architecture. But even that could be considered moot. Since by the time those software come out, newer chips just as affordable as this one will be released... 

All things considered, the chip is still quite a good bang for the bucks based on most reviews I've read about it so far.

I have to agree.  When I was building my rig.  I was really trying to stay in a budget.  So when I looked at the performance of AMD FX series (and of course to Intel's CPU series) I did an crap load of research and found that I would probably better performance/$ by going with the FX series.  Plus, I felt that it gave me greater flexablity in future upgrades, which lends itself to your point about newer chips.