4.7 GHz FX-8350 in 2023 - AMDs Infamous 8 Core Processor vs Modern Games

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Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
1:50 - Specs
3:01 - Forza Horizon 5
3:37 - Dying Light 2
4:24 - Cyberpunk 2077
5:10 - Apex Legends
5:56 - Warzone 2.0
6:31 - Spider Man Remastered
7:13 - Hogwarts Legacy
7:47 - Temps & Power Consumption
8:46 - Final Words

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[@rrekki9320]

Good old times and memories, still own my FX 8350 and Formula V Z board with 32GB RAM at 2400MTs and OC at 5.2GHz at 1.55 V xD Still runs, havent had a single FX die on me, more mainboards being on the deathbed. Man I miss my FX :D

[@hardware_maniac]

Isn't 1.55v a bit too much? I believe that the recommended maximum safe voltage is around 1.4-1.45v. Lowering clocks to 4.9-5.0Ghz won't affect the performance that much.

[@OTechnology]

@@hardware_maniac 1.55v is nothing for FX lol

[@bestopinion9257]

So, motherboards died with FX?

[@insomniacbritgaming1632]

@@bestopinion9257 motherboards die after a time anyway... mainly due to mosfet failure

[@eddiea3782]

@@OTechnology That's true. That's the average voltage on them when running 5GHz.

[@DiabolicShape]

Still running one with 970 Gaming RX 580-8GB 16 GB DDR3 ...Fabulous☺

[@kevinedward6132]

This video makes me smile, I was actually watching your video last week about the FX overclock and wondered if your old FX machine was still in use like mine is! I have my 8370 running at 4.7GHz as well at 1.5v with the RAM overclocked to 2133MHz (Ram thanks to your guide actually) and yeah... still enjoying my FX system a lot. I wish back in the day games used all those cores and that AMD hadn't allowed board manufacturers to offer users poor boards that couldn't handle the chips... Mine is paired with a Sabertooth 990FX R2 and it's very enjoyable.

[@RATechYT]

Glad I could help you with your overclock!

[@Outwars1]

Bro.... you've given me hope with my 8370.... And yeah even without overclocking it still runs games pretty decent. not to mention all the older games I have. Maybe I can squeeze a little more life out of it. Death Stranding is killing me at points, although that's more like a GPU problem I feel

[@kevinedward6132]

​@@Outwars1 hell yeah, the 8370 are the same bin as the 9xxx chips so it should push pretty high if your motherboard can handle it. I love this thing. Death Standing should run fine with your FX, it ran well for me on my 8370 @ stock paired with a 1060

[@Outwars1]

@@kevinedward6132 Hrrmmmmm... I have an older R9 380X. Will see how it goes.

[@shadowangel-ou6bg]

I'm using an old 4100fx, I don't play games it's fine for what I need it for. It's a rock solid system despite its age.

[@chincemagnet]

I had an FX 9590, OC’d to 5 GHz all core. It handled games just fine back in the day.

[@ekspatriat]

I had one and it HAD to be liquid cooled.

[@chincemagnet]

@@ekspatriat mine ran cool enough, well, I guess an AIO counts as liquid cooled huh? I had a Corsair H100i

[@ekspatriat]

@@chincemagnet Yes mine was an AIO AMD actually said it must be so.

[@MDFGamingVideo]

I had a 9590 on Sabertooth 990FX R2.0 with an Alphacool 480mm x 60mm and custom chipset and vrm waterblocks. I should put the old beast back together and tinker with it again. It was too much fun. Also had an 8350 that would do around 4.8GHz, and several 6300/6350's that would do 4.95GHz with a good air cooler. Now that I know how to OC RAM properly, I bet I can squeeze even more out of em. 🤔

[@anasevi9456]

I pulled an FX 8300 out of a dead HP machine, the die being diffused in late 2015 it was the cherry to end all cherries. Pulls about 40% less power than an old FX9590 we had to hold the same base 4.85GHZ stably; 1.275v versus 1.465v... and it was actually a lot faster in games as the FX8300 had a much much better memory controller, NT/HT/DDR3/2600 24 hour memtest stable. But that's the silver lining when you make the exact same chip for almost 4 YEARS. lol. Gloflo had their 32nm honed in like mad by the end. It still games really good thanks to 8 threads too, but would never recommend one as anything as a curio, old higher end motherboards and decent DDR3 are a ripoff on the used market, and even first gen ryzen 1600 with a cheapo B350 would gap it good for a tiny fraction of the price.

[@Kanivalos80]

I still have 2 AM3+ systems for older family members (email, surfing net etc) with FX4100/4300 (8GB ram/ssd/7770s). I wouldn't mind upgrading them with FX 8320/8350 but people asking 50-60 euros for these ancient cpus. Buying used A320 mobos and Ryzen apus to retire em makes more sense.

[@sassuki]

Yeah, especially that FX 8000 CPUs are very power hungry and need high-end motherboards to function properly. People buying FX 4000 rarely buy expensive motherboards with them.

[@homelessEh]

if your motherboard has 8pin cpu power connector fx8120 and up are fine but if your motherboard only has 4 pin power... i wouldn't do it even if it says its supported. Rip my msi 890gx and crap psu

[@MrJackSeverity]

Still using a FX8350 running at 4.72ghz with a RX580 Red Devil Gold edition for my daughters rig. I upgraded my main to a 2700x & then to a 5900x but for the games my daughter plays the FX is still killing it. Dead by daylight, fortnite, killing floor 2. Cpu is a beast. have a second FX-8350 is brand new in the box. When I built the system I didnt want any rgb, all fans and cooler are black with red led's inside a corsair vengeance ammo box case with a custom made clear side panel. Keep up the tops vids mate :) looking forward to 2024 Fx still killing it :)

[@nurhadibeseri]

Love your content, still own my FX8350 with 990FXA-UD3 and still going somewhat strong

[@usmanshah8395]

I currently hold all the records bar one on 3DMark benchmarks on air cooling with my FX8350 with my 8GB RX580 and it has been huge fun overclocking and still able to play most games with FSR enabled aswell still.

[@livingthedream915]

the legendary CPU returns at last

[@danb4900]

I had one of these. Far from legendary

[@livingthedream915]

@@danb4900 mine was for $100 in 2013, cry about it

[@Swattii]

Garbage ass CPU but yeah, still nostalgic about it.

[@conpa18dany]

@@SwattiiI’m still using it 😢 I didn’t know about computers at all so I got it late 2013, then early 2015 I went ahead and paired it with a 3440x1440 monitor and a 980ti. That still my setup, im about to upgrade soon but I think over the years what has carried that atrocious build was the 980ti

[@lanwish]

Legendary, for all the bad reasons.

[@tyrkukulkan]

Whole year's production budget went on the propane for the intro! XD

[@Thomas-lv9se]

I recently upgraded from my trusty FX8350 to a 7 7700X. The difference is MASSIVE! However, my FX is and will always be my favourite CPU as it was part of the first build I ever did and thus it will stay in its original box on my shelf forever. I overclocked it and played games like BF1 and BFV with it. Sure, framerates were low and temperatures high - but it did everything I could have ever asked for. I just upgraded because the rest of the system had been in use since 2013 so I didn't quite trust the hardware to work at all times (need my PC for work).

[@user-xh5pc3wd2m]

what was the rest of the system? I still work my FX8350, MSI R9 290, 990FXA-UD3 since early 2014

[@user-xh5pc3wd2m]

what you mean overclocked for bf 1? I played Bf1 on almost all ultra with my stock 8350 and r9 290 with around 45 fps avg

[@randommedia9]

I put an FX8350 build together, was fairly impressed with it, first I had it paired with a 1050 ti then a 1650, gaming performance was good, got lots of gameplay vids on my channel from that build

[@haikovanderleeuw9945]

Two of the PCs used in my household are severely OCed FX8320s paired with an RX580. Still play anything you can throw at them.

[@KaitDiaz47]

This is My favorite CPU the AMD Bulldozer FX-8350 it's still completely good even if it didn't become successful it's still is great.

[@budgetking2591]

its good if you dont have to pay for the electricity.

[@g95219988gg]

it's a second-generation pile driver, not a first-generation bulldozer.

[@Pruflas-Watts]

Im about to retire my RX 580 8gb and throw a RX 6600 in my FX 8350 AM3+ rig. Going strong, 10 years later. Out of all of the PC builds I did over the years, the FX 8350 has given me the most mileage for 50 - 80 fps and 1080p - 1440p gaming. I upgraded to Ryzen 1600 in 2017 because I had upgrade fever and then swapped out to a Ryzen 3600 that I currently drive as my main. I still keep my FX 8350 AM3+ build around because it just performs brillaintly for what it is, and all these years later, it still gets very playable performance across a very broad range of titles and many modern titles.

[@gulskjegglive]

I am watching and typing this on an FX-8370 running Linux Mint Mate. A great CPU that has held up flawlessly for almost a decade.

[@tallywhacker75]

i'm still running mine as a "media machine" set-up (never oc'd, original hardware 16gig of ram, gigabyte board, but replaced the old spinner hard-drive with an ssd and using a noctua air-cooler). works fantastic, can have 3 to 6 movie/tv episode downloads going while watching a movie or youtube and browsing ebay and stuff all at the same time no problems :)

[@grigorisafouxenidis5601]

Your channel the only reason I kept my FX-8350 till January 2023, got gifted a new motherboard with Ryzen cpu and swapped them. But I hanged the motherboard with the FX on the wall.

[@kyledavison1137]

I remember playing battlefield 4 with a 660ti and fx8320. This was my first real gaming pc setup. Still have my 8320 being used as a linux server testing setup. May retire it for the older i7 I upgraded from, but i got a lot of use out of the 8320.

[@bobbyabraham843]

My PC with FX-8350 processor and gigabyte motherboard built in 2012 still works great. I had upgraded hard disk drive to Solid State Drive, which made the machine super fast. Graphics card had a problem, which was replaced. The 13.5 year old FX-8350 processor PC still works like a charm.

[@rangersmith4652]

My first ground-up PC build was an FX-6300, but within a few weeks of building it I dropped in an FX-8350. The 6300 went into a PC I wound up giving away, but that 8350 is still running on an Asus M5A99FX board with 8GB of 2333 RAM. When it was my gaming PC I played almost exclusively FF14, which is still easy to run, at stock clocks with an RX-290, also stock. Just for fun, I managed to get the system stable at 4.7GHz. Today this system is strictly for testing PCI devices, but if I needed it as a back-up to play FF14, it still can.

[@bobhumid]

Thanx for this video! Highly interesting. I just bought one (used of course) for 75,- to make a last upgrade on a PC-studio-machine from 2011 with a GigaByte AM3+-Board. I did not install it as of yet, but the former CPU was a Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition, so I think it will make a lot of sense. Main task on this DAW-machine is audio / music-production and some midrange game-design in GameGuru Max. In Germany the FX-series was not hated in reviews, quite the contrary. It was always well respected. The reason that back then I put a Phenom II X4 into the PC was the fact that the FX-design shared 1 FPC with 2 cores. The Phenom has 1 FPU per CPU how it should be. FPUs are very important in audio-processing... So now with 8 integer-cores and 4 FPUs it should clearly surpass the Phenom II.

[@nadircarollo]

Still using an 9590fx at 4.9ghz 1.46V, I only play a few games where the fx still delivering good performance with an 6700xt in 4k 120hz. I am thinking to upgrade mostly for lightroom as it start to show the age now, but 10 years is a great result for this little "failure", and I love it

[@mxss115]

I built my younger brother a budget gaming pc many years ago with a FX-6300 and a RX-460. He bought a gaming laptop for himself recently and gave me back this old system. I don’t know if I’ll find much use for it, but even thought it was built with used components the only thing we’ve had to replace was the ram and storage.

[@rdmytuser6695]

I had the 8320, used it for 7 years before I had to sell it when moving elsewhere. It's a great processor!

[@cypher0124]

my first quad core was an fx 4100 that i used until 2016. I upgraded to an i5. I always wanted to try the 8350 as an upgrade but my motherboard was limited to six core cpus and didnt have the money to upgrade until that year. I love AMD as a company and im using a 6950xt graphics card right now but ive been firmly in the Intel cpu camp still it seems maybe next time.

[@papawshane]

I had an FX 8320 that I used for years. It came clocked at 3.5Ghz, but I was able to get up to 4.3Ghz. It was a very capable CPU, especially in the early days. I planned on holding on to it when I built a new PC, maybe in 2018, which I did for a while. But I had a friend, who like me, isn't wealthy enough to just go buy whatever and he was going to try and build himself a PC. So, since I had to get a new board, new ram and so on for my build, I gave him the CPU, MB and 64gb DDR 3 ram. So that CPU is still out there and doing its thing. I really liked the CPU.

[@argh523]

I still use my FX 8320. This thing compiled as fast as an intel chip at twice the price at the time. And the mainboards were 50-100 dollars cheaper, because they still use a north bridge. Because of the great multicore performance, and modern games targeting 8 core processors, it holds up increadibly well overall

[@alphaomega1969]

GO TO THE BIOS AND ENABLE UNLOCK CPU, DUDE TRUST ME AND DO BENCHMARK

[@alphaomega1969]

YOU HAVE BEEN USING 4CORE 8THREADS INSTEAD OF 8CORE 8THREAD

[@AustinNeoh]

it's a great proc, mine is still alive and running well too, just changed it a few days ago coz the mobo ram slots started to crap out

[@khalidald5704]

Brings me back to my previous setup which i upgraded a few hours ago. fx-8350 & 4x8gb ram & 660ti gtx. Unfortunately the cpu (fx8350) started overheating until it eventually died out.

[@sassuki]

Did you find out the cause of overheating? thermal paste dried out?

[@chrisrudi7162]

Great video! It's hard to believe that everything is still going so well. A few days ago I found a Fatal1ty 990FX Killer motherboard with AMD FX8350 on the street. And guess what? It works ! I'm building a retro system from 2012. The hardware still costs quite a bit and I saved the money.😁

[@sassuki]

You're some lucky dude!! :D Should be enough for everything but high-end gaming or advanced video editing :-3

[@fuzzylumpkins6034]

I still have this in a 990fx sabertooth board with a very old 1060 6gb and through all of its controversy and hiccups the damn thing still works great. Today it is used by our 5 y/o nephew for minecraft but it pulled off elden ring just for shts and giggles. Good to see people still trying to get this old relic to overclock and be stable

[@giantplaceholder]

Tbh, it is still perfectly usable. During the shortage, I had to quickly find a replacement board for my wife's PC, so I gutted by seed box, and here you go, FX-8350 b\w 16 gigs of random DDR3-1066 and idiotically paired with RTX 2060 Super. It handled Hogwarts Legacy just fine on 1080p with DLSS Quality and overall medium settings preset, hovering around 45 to 50 FPS, with decent frametimes. As you can imagine, apart from Last of Us and Redfall, it still can handle pretty much anything rather decently. It is time to upgrade, no questions here, but this combo was great when I bought it, and continues to help me out over TEN FRICKING YEARS LATER.

[@godzilla7391]

First pc build i did , back when bulldozer launched, was a fx6100, overclocked to 4.2ghz, paired with 2 HD6870s in crossfire. It did ok, especially for the time.

[@ScavengerFX]

This was great, thank you! I have a 8350 with 16 GB of DDR3 and a 1060 6GB just collecting dust.

[@DireNeeds]

FX Rigs are still good computers. Of course for gaming, I need a lot more than what it can offer me but my wife is using one I built for her a few years ago and it's stable. She has never complained about anything. 😄

[@DoubleAgent25]

I use an 8350 in my racing rig and it handles everything I need it to. I built that PC in 2014 and my friends can’t believe I’m still using it but it’s ran like a champ all these years.

[@turkovich530]

Great overview. It will never die ;-)

[@Jusu]

Back in the day i had a fx 8350 and a gtx 770. It was my first computer that could actually play most games, so many hours of tf2, counterstrike and gta 5 were played on those parts.

[@ysnyldrm73]

I have been using fx 8300 4.3-4.5@ghz for 6-7 years, I was so happy, it was so cheap and even cheaper than intel pentium g3258 in that time. While everybody said that even pentium better for gaming, I knew it wont last long with just overclockable 2 cores. Now I have a temporary i5 6600, even tho it is much better on emulation or old singe threaded games, I have experienced some inconsistency that I never experienced with my old fx build. Like my i5 6600 can not load forza horizon 5 map while travel roads become blank, and it is even worse on at hot wheels expansion, in uncharted some scenes pauses my game to load assets this happened 7 times in a row takes more than 15 minutes total and nearly always %100 usage on games even with a clean debloated windows :( I have never experinced these things with my old fx before with same games.

[@RATechYT]

Interesting!

[@bok..]

algorithm is blowing u up bro

[@adamkorzon2972]

Both of mine still going,I just dropped one in an old but last model AM3+ with better cooling.

[@mikebrock1965]

My 8350 ran at 4.8 with no issues but only in Windows 7 on air. No matter what I did it would never OC without crashing in Windows 10. Prices now are insane. I got a retail Black Edition from Newegg for $60 in 2015. And then got a settlement check from AMD for $50 a few years later.

[@PitAnimal]

I have never had FX8350 myself. In 2009 i bought Phenom II X4 940 and used it in my main rig till 2013, when i upgraded to i5-4670k. But in 2017 i bought fx 8350 to my dad pc. Albeit there it is not oveclocked, it runs quite well in most modern games. For example In Battlefield 1, V or Red Dead Redemption 2 it runs very well.

[@euX222X]

There's been almost 12 years and I still have my old OEM FX 8300, and still running all the actual games, almost all at 4K 30FPS High with a RX 5700XT...

[@VikingDudee]

I had a FX8320 was able to get to 5.1ghz daily out of it at about 1.53v with LLC pushing it just over 1.56v. It did good. Though I got another system with a i7 3770s and and z77 board and that i7 was faster in just about every game workloads even though it was locked and clocked way lower. I ended up move to it, but I do miss the FX and how much I learned from tinkering with it, I still have it, not used anymore, but its acting as my server back up just incase my server craps, I can just swap to the FX so I wont have a long down time.

[@ahmedelshazly433]

Also, try making the Voice chat set to friends only and in the documents File Call of duty make the renderer worker set to 4. I upgraded to Ryzen 5 3600 couple of weeks ago. Season 1 was more than playable when I set the renderer worker to 4 cores with 70 FPS. But since season 2 it became unplayable and I recently passed by the solution of the voice chat thing as I was running at very low fps since season 3 with my Ryzen. Maybe it can help.

[@herbertvonsauerkrautunterh2513]

I did sell mine off and upgraded to a Ryzen 9 3900 on an MSI x570 unify. I still have something in socket FM2+ though. I need to get an XP machine running for certain software. I'll need to check what CPU is in there

[@FamilyCS2]

I just sold my 8350 last year still ran great.

[@jerrywatson1958]

I agree I had the FX 8350 and FX 9590 for 5 years it did everything I asked a computer to do with no complaints. I even did crossfire with 2 rx380's for a while then, I got the rx 480 Sapphire Nitro+ OC edition. I even put a water cooler on it when I water cooled my FX 9590. So many good memories gaming back then, could you play Crysis? That was gaming.

[@KavorkaDesigns]

Using the FX 8320, 8350, 8370 and FX 9590, all still great today, using Noctua U12A on them and iPPC 3,000RPM fan in the rear. All overclocked over 5GHz, Using the Sabertooth 990FX R2.0 Mobo, it's amazing! Teamed with EVGA 2070 Super K.O. TU104 GPU, its the perfect match imo

[@RandoWisLuL]

Been on the same 8350 and 990FX R2 since 2013. Been on a GTX 1060 since it came out. I should probably upgrade but it still works. same 1200 watt power supply too. Im overclocked to 4.5 and 32gb ram at 1800+.

[@garhpd]

Still gaming on my FX-8320E overclocked with a GTX 1660 Super. Runs surprisingly well as long as you stick to 1080p with low/medium settings.

[@Toxic2T]

8320E gang is here

[@ikirules]

I still have my FX 8350 with a Motherboard UD5 from Gigabyte and 32 GB of RAM, is my server now with my old graphics card RX 560 4 GB, I use now with proxmox and with some containers and VMs and still is a little beast, but for my needs and workflow is a little weak to handle all my homelab for his own, I'm thinking to replace it, but give it to my parents where can be used for more years :D

[@markallison8108]

You had to bring it back one more time. 👍🏻

[@ConfusionDistortion]

I need to go back and test my stock FX 8350, but the last three test I did with Company of Heroes 3, Dead Space Remastered, and Last of Us using a RTX 2070 Super, things did not go well on Dead Space and Last of Us. Last of Us had some terrible cpu utilization going on, which affected even the i7 6700K I have here. Since a number of patches though, last time I tested Last of Us over the weekend on the i7 it ran really well, so my hope would be that things improved for the FX also at least enough so you could run the game at a steady framelocked 30fps. Dead Space though I am not sure if they have patched it at all since the last time I tested it. In game gameplay was fairly ok, but the opening story scene with the video message from Nicole was a slide show. It came off as buggy and something the FX just could not brute force its way past regardless of clock speed. I also got weird issues when trying to just start the game from save points where I would have to restart the game sometimes. The game already had issues on a Ryzen 3600, but not the kind where I had to struggle to get into the game. Which basically sums up my fears for this cpu in 2023, that a lot of new games getting released, as buggy as they are, the FX wont be able to brute force them on launch day, and people will get stuck sitting around waiting for a couple months worth of patches to get the game optimized. I don't even want to know what Jedi Survivor performs like on it right now. The plus side though is Company of Heroes 3 ran extremely well. You can bank on a 50-60fps average with a mix of medium/high settings. Relic is pretty much one of those developers you can count on to put out something that works well on day 1 though.

[@user-iu5ib8bj6l]

People complain about FX heat and power consumption, and now look at Intel 9900K/10900K/11900K/12900K/13900K, LOOK AT THEIR HEAT AND POWER CONSUMPTION

[@patrickc8007]

But the difference between them and FX is that they are not outperformed by the competition in terms of performance.

[@kaczan3]

LOL, I still use a weker version of the FX as my main work PC. Looking to upgrade though.

[@bdunn7037]

i remember having a 6300 and an r7 240 and boy that was rough

[@oplefirem]

I've still got my fx9590 in storage.. Man how times have changed

[@pauls4522]

Ran my fx8350 for almost exactly 8 years. (January 2013 to December 2020). I never had any complaints with the cpu. Paired with 16gb ddr 1866mhz memory, 2 sata ssds (1os + 1 games), and a radeon 7970 I always had good experience with the pc. 95% of all games I played could still achieve 1080P 60fps max settings, with the remaining 5% were mostly being the last 2 years of owning the pc. The PC lasted so long that the 7970 I Used heavily for 5.5 years started to artifact, so I managed to snag a radeon rx580 for only 100$ in february of 2019 for the last 22ish months of ownership. I think it is mostly down to that the fx8350 was released at just the right time. It was an era where games were slowly down in regards to getting more demanding. around 2016 there were some games that really were held back by the CPU due to the lack of IPC, but then Vulkan and DX12 started to pop-up, which put the FX8350 on life-support. The CPU was never excellent when obsessing over benchmarks, but always still always held in there at the bottom of the "viable" cpu range.

[@it-linux-computers-geeky6651]

Still have my old FX-8350 but these days it's running in my Truenas server like a champ with 32gb ram

[@kanefriessner]

Still using "Bulldozer+" CPUs, an FX-8320 in my primary and an FX-6300 in my secondary build. The 8-core one is more then enough to play pre-2020-21 games I think. I still have a 4 core Phenom II build, but... yeah, it's really showing it's weaknesses for quite some time now... (Funny, that for a long time, I thought that the refresh of the Bulldozer architecture is called Bulldozer+. (Is there anybody else who thought the same or it was just me?) I was in a shock when I discovered (around 2016 I believe) that it's called Piledriver. 😆)

[@kevinlawson1746]

Maybe back then when it was new the thing had problems, but when your in a category like me where new tech is out of your reach so your always behind, well it's amazing. I just got one with an ASUS MSA99FX PRO R2.0 Motherboard , 16GB memory with an RX580 and I love it . I went from having an A8 processor to this FX8350 and not only does it perform way better then I could of imagined, but every game I play makes the A8 look like a snail . I'm even using a Toshiba mechanical HD and everything runs smooth as butter and I was surprised I can now run games on it with much higher settings . One of the things I did was change the default settings on the MB and I think a lot of people make that same mistake and never change it or tweak anything, oh and no over clocking needed . Also I have never been a fan of apps that test your system, because I don't care how good they claim to be it just can't compare to a real world test with real games where you can adjust and change the settings. Remember also you can run higher settings, but just turn off some stuff , like motion blur , particle effects , turn down shadows and some other settings. With older hardware you just can't do Apple's to Apple's and I will never understand why no one makes a video about that, because when you play a game in the real world with limited specs your going to adjust for better performance and over time you find out exactly what makes your system run the best. This is a good video , but not realistic in terms of what someone would really do . Gotta also remember when the 8350 come out some PC settings didn't even exist yet so this is why you should turn off certain settings, so maybe make a video about that.

[@BearfootBob]

I used a Phenom II X6 + RX 560 with 8gigs of RAM to play Jedi Outcast. Lower but always smooth FPS, was quite playable

[@homelessEh]

phenom II was just Down right Faithful.. just a Solid Good Cpu line up..all the ones iv had .. (secret phenom renamed to athlon. 7750 an athlon with 2mb of l3 cache) phenom 9660,phenom2 720 phenom 2 555(unlocked to b55) hitting 3.7ghz on air all day. phenom2 960t, phenom 2 1045t,phenom 2 965

[@chomper720]

bigger problem is finding new/replacement motherboards, the am3+ ones seems to fail or throttle if it is a budget one...

[@ThomasLang-lf4xz]

My first pc i built was a fx8350 and rx 380 now i have a gtx 1080 and i7 6700k and been going strong for last 6-7yrs

[@followedknight]

I still use it in 2023 it still holds up for me. If your looking to build on the low on 1080p then the FX 8350 will do fine.

[@Skrubmeister]

I still have an Fx8120 overclocked to 4.2Ghz 1.3625v Medium LLC with a GTX 660 ti with 16GB of ram. I did leave the power save settings on because the system becomes too much of a power hog when stressed. I don't mind benchmarks taking a 15% hit with the settings off. System still feels moderately snappy and runs games pre ps5 era very well. The thing is, you don't want to couple this with anything more than an RX 480 because you will get bottlenecked hard, especially in newer games for consoles that rely on zen2 cpu horsepower.

[@Bitwise1024]

Never had the FX 8350, but I still have my FX 6350 coupled with an RX 570 8gb. Installed HoloISO and it's dishing up some indie gaming goodness.

[@hixym]

watching u from 1 right now... waiting for my mobo to upgrade to 7800x3d

[@BlindNeverAgain]

What a HUUUUUUGE upgrade, man! You are gonna feel those 8 cores and the speed of the 5Ghz base clock, dang! Congrats.

[@jamezxh]

I hear Asus have plenty in stock lol.

[@alexand2540]

Right now I have a FX 8300 overcloked to 4.0 GHz all cores paired with RX 460 4 gb and Ram 12 gb 1333. And it runs everything I need just fine. Really strong CPU , not as good as Intel on one core performance, but with Medium GPU can run even now and, I guess, in the future most games.

[@nushnume]

I had an FX 6300 with an R9 270x back in their days and i was able to play anything in 1080p just fine back then. I think people gave the FX too much hate than it deserved cause back then it did have many cores but there were no games to actually use them,and right now they do use them but it's still slow because it's old arhitecture. If you'd try a 2nd gen or 3rd gen i5 which are as old as the FX they won't do that much better either in modern games

[@RATechYT]

Old games such as Crysis 3 (2013), Battlefield 4 (2013), Witcher 3 (2015), Division (2016) and many more also performed better on 8 FX cores compared to similarly priced quad core i5's! I demonstrate that in the i5-3470 vs FX-8350 comparison - kzbin.info/www/bejne/p3SploqYadienqc

[@TheVdub1980]

I had one of the for years! It was an animal back then! The black edition if that makes any difference

[@Bdot888]

I built my first pc in 2016 with a FX 6300 and 380x. At the time I was just happy to get into the pc gaming world. I had that pc until 2020 when I upgraded to a 3600x. The smoothness even just scrolling in windows was like night and day. Then in late 2022 I upgraded to a 5700x. The FX 6300 will have a place in my heart but I do not miss it by any means

[@sassuki]

Incredible. I remember my AM3 system was much smoother than any Ryzen I got afterwards. I just needed to change it because it died out on me!! Else, I would probably be still using my old Athlon X3, believe it or not 😂 PS: I might be on something with my newest AM4 system based on the 4300G: I fixed the infinity fabric on 800MHz, put the XMP profile (3600MHz CL18), but downclocked to 3200 to stay within the official spec of the 4300G (and get a perfect multiple of 800), lowered the Command Rate to 2T, and disabled Turbo, C-State Support, Powerdown and Geardown in the BIOS. Now it lost 2% performance on Cinebench, but it finally feels as smooth as my old AM3 system 😭

[@slaydog5102]

​@@sassukiryzen is better than fx idk what you mean

[@sassuki]

@@slaydog5102 better in the raw performance, but worse in the overall smoothness on the desktop: there is jitter sometimes when scrolling on facebook. Same thing can be seen on intel by the way: older 6th gen platforms feel smoother than 10th gen+. There is something they did with newer platforms that sacrifice smoothness for performance. It's like you got 800hp in your car instead of 200, but the gearbox has hiccups when changing gears :3

[@rodrigomendes3327]

I would love to see how FX8350 age compared to Sandy Bridge or Ivy Bridge 4/4 and 4/8. Anyway, amazing retro-review! The bottleneck is WAY less than expected. Sometimes only 20~30% on ultra settings depending on game. Really low. We hame something very similar on some modern 6/12 like Ryzen 1600 or even better CPU using 6600XT alike cards. The biggest bottleneck mainly in heavy cpu demanding game.

[@RATechYT]

Thanks!

[@tyrkukulkan]

I can tell you it loses to Haswell by a significant margin. The older Ivy Bridge processors were not much slower.

[@rodrigomendes3327]

@@tyrkukulkan Yeah, Haswell is much faster, even 4/4. But Sandy Bridge? I have my doubts. Specially versus 4/4 CPU.

[@budgetking2591]

@@rodrigomendes3327 Haswell is only 21% faster then Sandy bridge, but ofc back then 20% was a huge jump compared to the 1% jump in Sandy vs Ivy the generation before.

[@rodrigomendes3327]

@@budgetking2591 20% faster is a HUGE difference. Absolutely HUGE difference. And it's not only 20% better than Sandy Bridge, is something close to 30%. It's 20% better than Ivy Bridge. I had all of them. Including FX8300 Series.

[@Meisuko]

I am blown away that it handled gaming this good 2023😮

[@jacobmay2821]

I still use a 8350 with a 1660 ti . i have no issues in almost every game play. i would like to upgrade just not ready i guess .

[@GordonSlamsay]

Just upgraded to a ryzen 7 7700 from this. The FX were awesome but ran very, very hot. I almost fried mine with a stock cooler before switching to liquid. Got almost 8 years out of it.

[@ipoopmuffins]

watching this video with my 3770k pc, gotta love the classics

[@RevDrCCoonansr]

I'm still upgrading mine. FX 8350, 16gb DDR3 2133, Asus 990X mobo. I need a new GPU for it tho. Been using a 470 4gb but I want to get an RX 480/580 8gb for it and an FX mobo. Also 32gb of DDR3 2400. My chip runs 4.7 on a Cryorig H7 but there's headroom if I can lower temps so I'm going to need a 360mm aio for that CPU to get 5ghz all core.

[@arranmc182]

I had an FX-8350 I ran at 4.4 GHz I only upgraded to it because my old Phenom II was missing some some instructions modern games needed, I got a good deal on the CPU because Ryzen 1st gen was out and some places seemed to be discounting old FX chips so rather than doing a full system upgrade I just popped this CPU in and continued to use the same PC for a couple more years, the FX-83** range while not the fastest for its time was a great way to extend the life of and older AM3+ system just a shame at the time I only had the 970 chipset on my motherboard so I could hit 4.7 GHz out of my FX-8350 myself as im sure I was power limited by the board.

[@MrHeHim]

I had a FX-8320 @4.7GHz/16GB 2133 C9 (9-10-11-11-24, i think) and used about 230 watts under "normal" synthetic load (ruff calculation using a Kill-O-Watt). Frame rates where playable on modern games, 1% lows is what finally made me upgrade. Older games didn't have a low %1 issue, my guess is that newer games (made for modern CPU's) are simply not optimized for older hardware. Otherwise, my FPS jumped nearly 2x in half the new games and about 30-50% on average. I had a blower style Vega 56 running at 1500-1700MHz at the time, bios flashed and OC'ed with liquid metal.. I even cut out some of the restrictive grill on the bracket. Long->Short; it still works just fine for a basic gaming build with FPS goal of 45-75fps This gave me some Vietnam flashbacks lol

[@RolandHazoto]

I just sold my old FX-8350 to someone a few months ago. I had to check twice to make sure they knew what they were buying because they said they were building a system and all I could think is "who builds and FX system in 2023?"

[@rossmclaughlin7158]

This CPU holds up better than expected I'd like to see locked i5 from same gen in modern games I think the 8350 would do better I really like mine and had in my main rig

[@zakerwashington5852]

First time watching your video and i love it

[@RATechYT]

Thanks and welcome!

[@LordWarcrown]

I pull mostly stuff from 10 years ago, these parts still work fine

[@denisuya]

I actually still use a system with FX 6100 "Bulldozer" until recently it reached its end of life few days ago. The performance was still nice enough to run AAA 2015 games like witcher 3 and today's JRPG games like Trials of Reverie, but now it's time to retire it. Ryzen will be its next legacy for the next couple of years. Thank you for bringing such joyful experiences, and rest in peace AMD FX 6100... 2016 - 2023

[@RATechYT]

RIP :(

[@xforce667]

Sad to hear it died. It's a very good CPU & mine is still working, i'm still recording games using it even High end games with demanding requirements on 1080p up to 2160p using Ultra preset & it still delivers 60FPS.

[@XX-_-XX420]

I actually did something like this for a friend of mine. he did eventually upgrade tho ( altho I dont understand since he plays on a 60hz screen and uses a 570, imo he was better off keeping it, altho im not sure if he found it to get to hot or use to much power or something like that).

[@ZackMartin177]

Just gamed on it last week, FortNite & Apex

[@heyheyhophop]

Still rocking a 8370E right hia!

[@RoninSan7]

For me, overclocking the NB/HT helped quite a lot for some games and benchmark tests. Unfortunately, my motherboard is a M5A97 R2.0... It's not awful, but I'm very limited by the VRM. I'm still using a FX-8370E @4.3ghz, 2450/2450 NB/HT.

[@SiliconPower74]

put a small fan over the VRM heatsink. I had a 60mm fan over the heatsink of my 990FXA-UD3 R5. Without the fan, VRM temps were over 100ºC. With the fan it didnt go over 65ºC.

[@rc1409]

4+2 is plenty for a four core CPU with 8 threads and two sticks of ram. Especially for the e version, that board can run 2400mhz 4x dual rank and 6350 @5.1ghz with fan on VRM and one on the back. It's probably the thermals being used and the bin of your chip. A 9370 on 8+2 phase also struggles over 4.8, one issue could be the actual compound on your IHS (diode temps) at this point as that only lasts about 10 years.

[@josephnorris4095]

Literally the only thing I am not liking is the fact that, at least on Ebay, the pricing for these old part are absolutely insane. I would love to build one of these FX systems with a HD7970 but nope, the motherboards alone are going for over $150 and that is insane. Also, maybe it was just me but, in the 33 years I have been into computing, the FX cpu's were the most fun, at least to me.

[@absolutesadlad2297]

so just as a correction for Temps & Power Consumption portion of the video 8:20 onwards. 61c (as stated by AMD) is indeed the per core tjmax. and 72c for the socket & package itself. there are only two accurate ways of measuring AMD FX thanks to the nature of AMD's thermal measurement implementation. the first is to use AMD Overdrive. and the second is to use Core temp and set it to display distance to TJmax in thermal fields (you never want to see less then 10°C distance to TJmax, anything higher then that is fine) you have two temp sensors on bulldozer & AM3+ that serve two very different purposes. TCTL (Core Temp) a non physical one, is used for measuring temperature during load. and CPU Temp (which is your sensor built into the socket of the mainboard) used for generalization.

[@RATechYT]

With Overdrive the thermal margin is 20° when the CPU hits 60°. Like I said, whatever the actual temperature is, this CPU starts dropping the clock speed to 1.4 GHz once it hits 80°C in HWInfo, which should be ~70°C when measuring using the infrared thermometer behind the socket.

[@absolutesadlad2297]

@@RATechYT right, which is why distance from thermal margin and socket probe are the only accurate metrics for FX. (Without causing confusion to end users about verified max temps that is)

[@DavidsonMott]

I'd love to see some action with the Phenom II X6s compared to modern CPUs

[@RATechYT]

I tested a 1090T and also compared it to an FX-8350 & FX-6300 about 4 years ago. Video quality has definitely come a long way since then, but you can still check them out on my channel if you're interested.

[@shyfawxproductions]

I still daily drive a fx-8150 on an Asus sabertooth 990fx the original self-contained AIO that they had for these boards, 32 GB of DDR3 and 4 one tb 2.5 ssds.... Running 3 monitors on a GTX 1650 super. Everything but the GTX and 16GB of the ram is from 2014. The system was given to me a year ago and I use it for music production and basic blender director as well as the streaming and all the other daily Business. Awesome play Halo rather well and also Forza 5 I was getting like 80 frames on mostly high settings to my 1080 43 in, and I still had the other 32's running basic metrics in the background.

[@umdiaaposooutro2393]

i wish a had the saberthooth back in the day. bought a gigabyte fxa 990 ud3 instead. it's still my daily, but im upgrading for a 5700x in a few days.

[@shyfawxproductions]

@@umdiaaposooutro2393 yeah these days for a MOBO with as many lanes you have to spend at least 600

[@umdiaaposooutro2393]

@@shyfawxproductions bought the Asus b550m tuf bluetooth II and the 5700x to go with it. suuuper exited since I'm upgrading from the fx8350 + fxa990 ud3

[@perna002]

The legend returns ! Maybe you have a bit decrease performance with a 6600xt running at 2.0 x8, that bandwith is same it 1.0 x16 / 3.0 x4 / 4.0 x2 Unfortunely for the FX plataform, today is only use GPU Cards x16 for reduced loss with this veteran CPU Maybe i am wrong and doesn't make any difference, but with a video comparison we can know it :D Congrats from Brazil for the video.

[@SerjStar]

My first cpu was i5 6500 I built it in 2016 I think with gtx 760 boy did u have fun

[@XXXTENTACIONFANFF]

I have FX 8350 config and still working fine in 2023 ! But need to use very good motherboard, very important ! My config Motherboard : ASUS Crosshair V Formula-Z ( Best AM3+ motherboard ever ! ) CPU: FX 8350 BE Black Edition RAM: 4x8GB Kingston Hyperx Fury 1866MHz CL11 VGA: Asus Geforce rtx 2080 ti OC 11GB Power Supply: Coller Master 750W 80+ Gold full modular ( very important to use Power Supply ) SSD : Samsung 860 EVO 250GB + 2TB WD Blue 7200RPM HDD This config is not the cheapest but very good ! In GTA 5 more then 100+ FPS ;)