Can the FX-8350 STILL Game in 2023?!

[@erinw6120]

December 2023, and I'm still rolling with the 8370 Black Edition on an Asus Sabertooth 990FX 2.0 board. Built the system in 2014. Handles everything I throw at it, was even running Win11 Insider until they pushed away "unsupported" CPUs. Win10 is fine, Debian 12 rocks on it. Running a Win7 VM in the background whilst watching this video. The dual GTX960s are the slow parts, but still manage decently in 1080p games. Most of the games I play regularly, like GTA V and WoW, are several years old anyway. When I got the class-action suit notice over the "not true eight-core CPU" controversy, I chucked the letter in the trash. I've never felt ripped off, and have gotten nearly a decade of value from it.

[@VividJarl]

I run a 8350 on a Sabertooth 990fx with a GTX 980 due to financial strain and honestly I'm constantly surprised that it both A, still runs and B, runs fairly recent releases on high. Cyberpunk, COD:MW, Doom, all works perfectly fine for some reason beyond my mortal comprehension.

[@joaov_machado]

Same, currently with a humble 6300 + GTX 970 and, for some unknown reason, this lil bro still runs pretty decently most of these recent titles

[@sgtjarhead99]

I've come to really appreciate the FX series. Don't have a 8350. but I do have a FX 6300 that I bought for my son several years ago. After I upgraded his PC, I kept the 6300 as my "tinker" box. Still have it today, albeit it's not anyone's main PC any more. All cores O/Cs to 4200ghz and currently paired with a RX 580 2048sp. Still games fine at 1080p even though it's not a gaming box any more in my house.

[@ScootsMcBoogie]

FX8350 @ 4.8ghz since 2012 24/7 with a EVGA 970SSC and no issues running well above 60fps.

[@cristi.trohin]

Dude, the test setup has some serious flaws. A lot of wasted potential. The FX CPU only supports PCIE 2.0, and the RX 6600 has support for 8 PCIE lanes. That means the GPU is using only 8 PCIE 2.0 lanes, which is equivalent to 4 PCIE 3.0 lanes or 2 PCIE 4.0 lanes. That GPU is severely bottlenecked on this setup. You would get much better results by pairing the FX with an RX 580 that supports the full 16 PCIE lanes. The RX 580 will get better frame rates than the RX 6600 on this motherboard. I actually have a FX 8300 paired with an RX 580 8GB in a backup system, and it can play anything. I am getting way better frame rates with that setup than what you're getting with your setup.

[@HoosierHardware]

In the sense of wasting performance, you're 100% right. The scope of the video was mostly to figure out if the 8350 could handle some of these games at all. You've piqued my interest on this front though too. I have an 8GB 480 laying around that I'll be slotting in to take a look at, because I'm extremely curious now how much performance is being given up. It's also a good comment in the sense that it reminds everyone, especially myself, about why you really do have to think through what GPU (and other upgrades) you toss at an older machine. My mindset when I grabbed the 6600 off the shelf was just, "Oh, that's my fastest modern GPU I'm not currently using. Let's go with that." I didn't give two thoughts to the lane configuration of the motherboard and the GPU. Regardless, good point. I look forward to testing this further!

[@cristi.trohin]

@@HoosierHardware looking forward to your conclusions :)

[@cristi.trohin]

@@HoosierHardware also, it would be interesting to see the 8350 paired with a 1080 or 1080 Ti, if you have one of those around

[@evilqtip7098]

❤❤❤❤❤❤😂😂😂😂😂❤❤❤❤❤ SUPER EXCELLENT POINT.. MY MSI GTX 1080 8G GETS 100FPS - 200 + FPS IN MOST GAMES. AND AT 1080P - 1440P DEPENDING ON THE GAME WITH SOME SMALL ADJUSTMENTS.

[@Kyles_videos]

What frames do you get in warzone with the 8300 and ex 580?

[@carlossan777]

My pc still running with this processor and a GTX 1070

[@michaelthompson9798]

A great video Shane 🥰🤩😇👍KZbin channel RA Tech did numerous tests with the FX-8350 and a few other old AMD CPUs and found for 50-100fps at 1080p gaming was still quite achievable in many titles and a number of multiplayer fps titles as well. For a hobbiest, super budget pc builder, or a cheap Minecraft pc for the young’ins today ….. this cpu can handle these titles more than enough with decent quality settings.

[@fadingbeleifs]

I mean, I have two of them that I still use for older games as well as work and hobby stuff, and my amateur radio equipment... I have an SDR unit that lets me connect my system to my big antenna outside and I can download and decode satellite data in real time with it... it's still not a bad chip even now, for things that are extremely cpu intensive...

[@StewiePlaysPC]

I am running the FX-8350 with 16gig ram and the 980Ti , for 1080p gaming its fine and has yet to let me down . I was looking to upgrade to Ryzen a few years back but with the rather quick leaps they were making and the constant leaks on the next ones I felt it was not worth jumping to soon only to want the next +20-25% boost that was always just on the horizon. At some point in the next 12-18 months I will make the change once I am happy that 1. the build will last my needs for the next 6-7 years , and 2. the exploding CPU's are a thing of the past lol .

[@pixels303at-odysee9]

Enjoy being forced to run Win10 when you upgrade to Ryzen. There are driver hacks out there to enable NVME PCI-E, Disable win10 notifications and end of support upgrades and also the USB3.0 drivers (Hacked and working) but you may find that Steam now activated their infamous Win7 killswitch as of 2025. Used to work, but no more. If you bought games on that platform, you will no longer be able to use them unless you switch your operating system, which is theft in my opinion. I use a GTX 1060 with mine (Bought it for $40 on e-bay because it had no fan, but I fixed it with zip ties and a couple 90mm fans) and it games great on all the titles I used to own and no longer have access to because I enjoy using Windows 7. Won't be upgrading anytime soon as it is a great NAS box with my 15 hard drives. Yes, it is slow compared to Ryzen, especially with bitmining, I can earn $1USD /day with my 12 core Ryzen and maybe $0.04 / day with the FX, performance differences are absolutely off the chart. Even compared to Intel, it exceeds the performance anything Intel has to offer when comparing frequency and watts per performance, mostly due to the MASSIVE L3 cache Ryzen CPU's offer. They even started using 3D Cache to double their L3 past the 100Mb on one of their 8 core series CPU's, not sure what that would do with gaming, but they advertise it for just that. Only reason why I keep using the FX is because there is no Minux operating system running on a hidden CPU core which CIA use to surveil us. Intel since Core2Duo bundle those in concert to appease the Cabal. If anyone is targeted as a threat, their PC can have data implanted on it for fraudulent jailing of the threats. They have unfettered access to all your hardware and keyboard strokes regardless what software or operating system you use with their back door. And don't get me started with the vulnerabilities with Microsoft either, because they are even worse. Don't believe me? just ask Dutchsinse, he had several PC's bricked because he went up against the USGS. Watch Zero Days and Snowden. Even my buddy from CSIS divulged details which he wasn't supposed to, so sadly, Yea.. Thats my take.

[@notorioushacker221]

@@pixels303at-odysee9 Put down the pipe and go outside mate

[@pixels303at-odysee9]

@@notorioushacker221 wow. Figured you would insult rather than being inquisitive. Ignorance must be bliss.

[@MrJerjerT]

It was my computer for over 7 years. Then it was my son's gaming computer. It ran at 4.45ghz, 16gb ram, and GTX 970 Strix. He wasn't really complaining until he tried playing Redfall. Other than that. 1080p gaming with every thing else was just fine. This was one of the best PCs I've ever had. It has served us very well, and will continue to serve my nephew that will be using for university. This system will most likely continue to be used until Win 10 is retired.

[@rossmclaughlin7158]

I was starting to struggle to hit 60 with my fx 8350 in few titles when I upgraded to 2600 back when that came out but like you found hear it 1% lows and that was still playable. but I started thinking that perhaps it didn't have long left interesting to see it's still holding on in there what an amazing chip 10 years on and still kicking. Really was the value king 💯

[@SMongoosse]

I have it paired with a 2070 super and never thought i was bottlenecking despite having built ~200 computers since 2011. Now i am having second thoughts, although all i play are paradox games and rimworld.

[@evilqtip7098]

Dude love your videos but I have an FX8150 FX 8350 FX9590 AND INTEL INTEL IS OVER RATED AMD FAR SMOOTHER AND STABLE.. NUMBERS ARE FOR SUCKERS... AND SUPER FOOLS...❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤😂😂😂😂😂

[@agostonpalatinus1513]

Im rolling with FX-8350 4.6GHz on OC to use my ram on 2400mhz (memory controller only supports 2133mhz with XMP, which is very low compared to Intel in those days (Ivy Bridge - 2400Mhz supported already) 990XA-UD3, fairly great budget Motherboard was it in his days. It is my secondary computer, using RX 570 init, I installed windows 7 bcuz I see somehow W7 is performs better with the FX than W10. (On newer games W10 is better ofc) I’ll use it until the motherboard dies, bcuz their VRMs were really weak to FX.

[@jotabe1984]

Fx-8350 w/16gb 1866mhz ram and something like a GTX 1060, GTX980, R9 390, Rx 570/580 or around that performance (1080p 60fps) will do just fine for games. I know since i moved from my Fx8350 1 week ago (feb. 2024) and i was hitting arond 60fps on many games. granted, Dx11 games will struggle a little more, but nothing to worry about, still a very nice 45+ to 60 fps average with not so much suttering. Also you can (on an extreme budget) edit 1080p vids no problem (i would suggest 32gb of ram for that job) not to mention Photo editing (very decent render times in RawTherapee in my experience) If your budget allows for it... get an AM4 platform, shure... but if you happen to have serious budget restrains, aiming for an old 970 mobo with an Fx4300 and upgrade it to an Fx8350 might still be a reasonable idea/upgrade, allowing some casual modern tittles gaming and decent multitasking given a very low price.

[@evilqtip7098]

I had to buy my buddy's old mint condition. Gigabyte board with the FX8350 BUT I PAIRED IT WITH ❤❤❤❤ GTX1080 ARMOR. AND PCI-E 7000MB M.2 IT FLYS IN ANYTHING.. YES I BOUGHT NEW STUFF... Rjyzen 3600X RTX3060 12GB. ITS INSANELY BEAUTIFUL FAST. RESPONCE IS INSTANT.. But for some reason i love the FX8350 AND USE IT... I WISH AMD WOULD BRING BACK THE FX SERIES.😂😂😂❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ THE GAMER NEW ❤❤❤❤-FX-3D RYZEN- ❤❤❤❤

[@None-0n3]

Just barely today upgraded my system. Been running that 8350 for many years at this point. While streaming was possible and honestly wasnt bad, but i mostly play games like civ v that still chugs however sometimes. Overall after 9 years with that chip i got wayyyy more than my money's worth for it. That paired with my GTX 780 has been great and im still not retiring the build. However i have a ryzen 7 5700x as of today, and im excited to see if i can stress the shit out of it. Though it probably wont overclock like the 8350. That chip just takes beating after beating

[@gelfandothea]

Guy is using an RX 6600 to run Witcher 3 enhanced at 1440p and he's blaming the 8350 for low frames? Umm... it's not the CPU genius. I'm using an 8350 and I'm maxing out everything at 4k. I did have an RX 6600 for a while though, and it's a badass GPU for the price.

[@bryancline8893]

My 8350 lasted me up until 2022. Broke down and got the 5900x. My r9-fury lasted me until Starfield came out. Albiet barely 😂. Figure I can skip a few generations and by then I'll be too old to know how to use new technology 😂

[@alexand2540]

I have the FX 8300 overclocked to 4.00 Ghz , paired with RX 470, 12 ddr3 1333mhz and I am such a happy, having such a powerful PC. Resolution is 1366 -768 and I can play all games, especially such demanding as : The Witcher 3, the Forza 5, Wo Long, Assassin's Creed Odyssey , Unity, Origin, the Spider Man . For me, Yes, the FX 8300 is still enough and that is the Great CPU for gamers, who want to play by any costs.

[@Skrubmeister]

Relatively shit on release, but still very relevant performance wise.

[@FaethorFerenzcy]

I still use a system with the Fx 8350. But i need to get a new mainboard with processor, since it bottlenecks more and more programs i use.

[@zeick350tuber]

Still rocking my fx 8350 with a r9 290x 😂 (I’ve been eyeing a few 580 to upgrade)

[@kokilius]

rx 6660xt gonna be 6th gpu my lovely fx8350 will run it for the next several years:))

[@JamesSmith-sw3nk]

Steve from Gamers Nexus personal pc has a FX-8350 and a gtx 1070. He says he mostly plays old strategy, puzzle or card games in his limited free time. I knew a retired computer engineer (I think he worked for Samsung) that ran a P3 933mhz pc with a pci Nvidia 8400 video card up until he passed away, it had Windows 7 on it. He still fixed other people's much faster/newer pc's as a side hobby. I asked him why he didn't upgrade, he said it did everything he needed to. Answer e-mails, surf the net, watch 480p video (His lcd monitor was a 17" 1024 x 768). If you don't play modern games then you don't need much. Good video.

[@HoosierHardware]

Yep. Probably quite a few 8350s still out there plugging away on machines for people that still just have no reason to upgrade.

[@BGTech1]

I use a fx-9570 in my main build and it’s still going strong

[@shadowopsairman1583]

I still have a 8350 at 5.0GHz since 2016 and the ram is at 2400MHz.

[@JayzBeerz]

Nice thank you.

[@Atari8man2011]

I have 2 older systems with the Fx 8350 and I game on them all the time. My main system is the Ryzen 9 5900 with RTX 3060. I dont play all the new games just a few like Doom Eternal/Cyberpunk 2077 and all the Borderlands but I play a lot of older games like Quake 3/Doom 3 and the Fx 8350 with Nvidia 1050ti runs them all great. People like to bad mouth the Fx 8350 but it can still play even some of the newer games at lower settings. Great Video!

[@SterlingSword98]

I have two FX machines. One 8350 on an Asrock 990 fayta1ty 16 gigs of 1866 sniper and rx 480- 8 gig. The other is a 9590 on a M5AFX 990 R2.0 with NZXT loop and 32 gigs of 1600 and Rx6700xt. The 8350 is better for overclocking though. Luck of the draw. I love keeping these old bad ass rigs tip top. Not sure why. lol All my games run well enough to play. That avx instruction is why I started messing with the FX systems for games. Cheap too.

[@JohnReaper8]

Man i have the same Asus motherboard can u run this game Cyberpunk 2077 with this FX 8350 on medium-high settings my GPU is GTX 1660 SUPER OC & 32 G 1333Mhz ?

[@Steele_Wings]

Still running mine with windows 8 and the games purchased. I keep the platforms I build for certain games . They don't require the internet to enjoy playing them. Old CD and DCD games are my favorite.

[@binners7872]

im still running the 8350 with a 1660 super. runs okay on lower intensity games but when playing warzone 2, bf2042, or assetto corsa on a full server, the cpu reaches 79c in temp and games become unplayable. original thermal paste from 2014, would it make much difference if i reapply paste?

[@ninjatanuki]

oh my god yes, re-apply that paste ASAP lol also an -insane- and cheap upgrade for the 8350 is to just grab a used AM4 Wraith Prism cooler off of Ebay or something, they work with AM3! keeps it ridiculously cool!

[@craiglortie8483]

i got my AMD Phenom II X4 955 in a prebuilt at my job in 2012/2013 and kept it until it lost a core in 2018. even with just the three cores it was still running my pc just fine but i upgraded after ryzen came out. if my 1600 keeps that longevity, i may pass it down to grand kids for a minecraft pc!

[@HoosierHardware]

I love the concept of passing the old 1600 on to the next generation. That's cool.

[@craiglortie8483]

@@HoosierHardware yeah, i'm almost ready to upgrade my rig to the am 5 platform. after the a620 boards come out, it's almost in reach for me. LOL

[@peternicol2743]

I've had my PC for 10 years now. FX-8350 on a ASUS Sabertooth MB with 32GB of RAM and a R9-290X 4GB. I continue to use the machine for gaming though not so much for newer games (that will likely change once Cities Skylines 2 hits which may force the upgrade on me finally). Has been a fantastic PC which has barely missed a beat. I've looked into upgrading a few times in recent years but not able to justify the upgrade cost as I have been able to still play everything i want to.

[@JohnSmithWesson]

FX gets more performance boost out of high speed memory than just overclocking CPU itself. 1600Mhz is not enough for FX, 1866 is minimum but better 2400

[@snowdog993]

I have 3 8350 machines running great! Two of them have asus strix gtx980ti and the third has a msi gtx1660 super. All 3 systems are on Sabertooth 990fx boards, one is a 1.0 and the other two are 2.0. All have NVMe drives with the 1.0 booting UEFI with Clover. Storage is with a M5015 Hardware RAID. No need for upgrades YET. 32GB Kingston HyperX 1866 on 2 sytems, 1600 on the third. Need to know more about it?

[@bulgoczacybulgotnik]

Got the 8320 O'C a bit goes well in gaming

[@djmccullough9233]

i used my 8350 until 2018 when i went to the 1800x. currently running the 5800x3d in the same motherboard i migrated away from the 8350 to.. the 8350 was never "the performance champion" but it had the grunt to chew through most workloads. for its price it was almost unbeatable in that role.

[@DaLoneGuy]

i really want to get rid of mine and my 1050 Ti :C

[@clanjade1]

use it every day fx 8350 gtx 1070 ti does what i need gaming an streaming netflix so on 32 gb ram helps

[@qaching]

1070ti is a big ass bottleneck for this cpu?

[@pitochu19]

Thanks for the video. I game my brother my old fx 8350 setup for his first gaming pc but the gtx 970 is a bottleneck. I wasn't sure if there were going to be anything I could do for him to play some better games without spending some large amount of cash but I might just buy a RX6600. He plays as 60 fps on a 1080p old monitor so as long as it gets some good visual and 30 to 60 he is happy.

[@kanaefukuda1864]

been running an fx 8350 pc since i sold my ryzen pc to a friend. puts me back into a time when i didnt have that much fps on titles i wanted to play, but all the more made it more interesting on how i play those games.

[@ItsDeebs]

I'm running a FX-8300 at 3.6GHz with turbo boost on. Which gives it short bursts of 4.2GHz if needed. Together with 32Gb RAM. RTX 3060 12Gb 192-bit. SATA SSD for OS _(motherboard can't boot M.2)_ and PCIe M.2 adapter SSD for games. It's still going strong. Playing Halo Infinite at 1080p with High settings. I get 80-100 FPS on 4 v 4 games and 70-85 on 12 v 12 maps. Forza 4 at max is over 100 FPS with occasional dips. But minor optimizations remedies that. I play on my TV which is 60Hz but I clock it to 75Hz in the Nvidia Control panel when gaming.

[@NLJS_NorskGaming]

i have a amd fx 8320 eight core prossesor its running at 4,4 ghz on a sabortooth 990 fx r2.0 and a nvidia geforce gtx 1650 oc edition from tuf gaming

[@jimnmom]

Yes I’m still running it 11 years later n I’m by on my second board I use it to process photography from my canon 5dmk111 it does a fine job with 32gb if memory , it’s still a bit noisy but otherwise it’s running great no overheating or blue screen of death. I use a SAPPHIRE NITRO Radeon R7 370 4GB GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 ATX Dual-X OC Version (UEFI) Video Card 100386NT4GOCL All in all i rarely have any issues I figure it ain’t dead so why switch, yet.

[@ViollinneElizabeth]

I built my PC back in 2013 with a FX6300, a Gigabyte 990Fx, and a GTX660, and have since upgraded the gpu to a 1060, and then to RX6600. It still games well, had some stutters with modern games and obviously bottlenecked the RX6600 real bad, even when the CPU is overclocked to 4.3 Ghz with a Cryorig H7 air cooler. Considering it's an 11 year old rig that still I still run regularly for work and gaming without any big problems, that's not bad at all. I never had a PC last this long on me without it feeling unbearably slow, but somehow the FX still felt okay after all this time. I meant to do a full platform change to AM5 last year, but some financial and life problems happened and that got delayed. In the meantime, the lowly FX still does its job well and can still give me 1080p60fps in older games, so yeah, I can say I'm quite pleased with it.

[@businesscat2895]

Every desktop in my house is still running on AM3+ architecture. I originally built the machines back when it was still possible to build a decent gaming PC with only $500-$1000. Today just a 'gaming' motherboard costs almost $500 without CPU nor RAM. Anyhow I 'maxed out' all my systems with 32GB DDR3, FX 8300 series 'Vishera' CPUs. The most significant performance boost came from GPU upgrades (the performance increase from PCIE 2.0x to 4.0x is negligible for gaming) and phasing out all HDDs and replacing them with Samsung SSDs. For my main system I got rid of the optical drives altogether (CDs, DVDs, and Blu-ray about to go the way of floppies) and upgraded to a CPU/GPU 2x360 water cooled setup that runs virtually silent compared to the jet engine about to take off that it used to be. I can run every latest game there is on a water cooled Radeon RX 6900 XT (that cost me $1000 on 2021 but now retails at $1,300+ TODAY), even abominations like Forspoken, Clank and Ratchet's Rift apart, Baldur's Gate 3, etc. Otherwise I simply cannot afford the latest shit so I finally gave in and bought the woman a PS5 she wanted cause it's literally magnitudes cheaper than today's 'modest' gaming GPUs; there's a special place reserved in gamers' hell for whomever created crypto gpu mining.

[@stansova3138]

Still using my FX-8350 today, on a MSI 990FX gaming board, bought the CPU first week it was out for $99, put in a ASUS Crosshair V, and 3 weeks later it died. So I went cheap and bought a ASUS M5A78L-M LX Plus which lasted 5 years and then died, the I put it in a MSI 990FXA GAMING (MS-7893), board and it is still up and running today with a NVIDIA board that my son threw out because he said it sucked. Works OK for me. I also have a R3 2200G, and a R5 -2600, but I like the FX-8350 the best.. Now 2 years ago threw out windows, Have 2 computers using Windows 10, but only for getting on government boards, for some reason they won't let Linux on. (they would rather use the OS which attracts the most virus's, or are getting huge kickbacks for staying with MicroSoft.

[@mitch075fr]

It was one of the CPUs I considered back when my Athlon X4 620@3.2 GHz started showing signs of age. Problem is, I was fed up with noisy, hot PCs and wanted something that ran cooler. So I got a i5 4670K. Still, I was tempted - so many cores...

[@phisto9]

I still use my AMD FX-8350 along with 32GB RAM to this day. I've never had issues in any games.. until Cyberpunk 2077 got released. I thought my RTX 3060 were the problem but turned out to be the CPU, I was actually shocked. My powerful CPU after 11 years has finally become old

[@VladiKillera]

Your RTX 3060 is choked not only by the CPU but also with the PCIE 2.0

[@josephdias3968]

You’d would get double the framerate with an rx5700xt pcie express bottleneck your only gen pci express 4x gen 4 speed

[@fuzzylumpkins6034]

Our 4 y/o uses my 10 y/o system to play lego games and minecraft. It is the fx 8120 in a sabertooth board with 32gb of ram and using the old titan x maxwell (2016) card. The gpu is way overboard for it as fx bulldozer/zambezi bottleneck the hell out of games regardless. None the less it is good, requires more power than my 58000x3d but it is still kicking and he will use it until it dies or he gets the am6 when those are out as we are skipping all of am5 and 40 series/70 series gpus out of principle. Long and short, yes it is great 1080p , no it isnt stuttery.

[@RudolfSikorsky]

Using FX 6300 @4,0 GHz/RX 570/16 GB RAM in my Win 7 machine and couldn't be happier. As I also have dedicated Win XP machine, there are days, sometimes weeks I don't boot my main rig.

[@she3esh]

Running linux and using the 8350 for web browsing, it is very fast and you'd never realise it was a 12 year old build

[@myriad1973]

I built a new system 18 months ago built around a Ryzen 7 5800X and gave my son my FX-8350 system with 16 GB 1600 MHz and a GTX-970.... he hardly ever uses it, unfortunately.

[@thomashamby3349]

I totally went on a eBay splurge, and bout the same system I had 10+ years ago minus the 7990! Asus m5 evo Fx8350 16 gigs ddr3 1600 1tb ssd And grabbed a rx 5500xt 8gb I play most any game above 50 fps and higher.

[@KitsuneVoss]

I always had ram issues with my FX-8350. It did not see all of its ram. I always thought it was the motherboard. Replaced with a Ryzen 7 5800x last yard but did keep my FX-8350 as a backup. I found a really cheap AM3+ motherboard with M.2 capability. When I pulled the CPU from the board, I found out why I was having ram issues. I appeared to have bent pins 10 years ago and had never realized it. Tried to bend the pins back, which I have done before, but one broke. At that point it was either except the loss for the motherboard or buy a replacement CPU. Decided that I would go ahead and get a replacement CPU even though I could likely get a Ryzen 5 2600 for less. Still cheaper than a replacement CPU and motherboard though. This new FX system has 32 GB or ram and is paired with a GTX 1070 and actually runs some games I tested it with pretty well.

[@Skrubmeister]

Running an Fx-8120 @ 4.0ghz 1.3250v undervolt medium LLC with power save settings on. Still runs most things smooth enough with the 660 ti, if you don't run anything past PS5 era.

[@jonathanmcgowan7746]

Still running my FX-8350 at home daily. I don't do heavy duty stuff, just watch KZbin videos, some light word processing, chess and maybe some Half-Life/Half-Life2 gaming (yeah, I'm really old school!) I still use my old AMD Socket 754 3200+ and 3400+ Venice cpu's in a couple of old systems for some light tasks. I loved those old chips as they would oc like mad, especially in my Abit NV8 mobo with Crucial Ballistix DDR400 ram.

[@VladiKillera]

Yes i'm still with my FX8300 4,5ghz 16 gigs 1866mhz and RX 480. And yes its not a problem for me to play the newest singleplayer games at around 50fps on 1440p and high settings...🙂

[@EddieJarnowski]

I'm still using my fx8350. It was an upgrade tbh lol. I bought my first tower about 3 years ago and it had a 4100 so i bought an 8350 to go in it. Works pretty well still but ya, it seems a bit choppy. Runs really hot. I could heat a small apartment with it when i max out the settings and yes i do cooling right.

[@SilentSigns]

This is an awful selection of games in your testing suite to the point that it almost seems malicious. CSGO is older than the CPU, the 8350 was literally the recommended spec for witcher 3, DE is a game that is famously easy to run - so much so that a *celeron* can get close to 200fps, and hogwarts is a last-gen game that runs on APUs that were made a year after the 8350 released. Really begs the question of what exactly is the point of this video. Of course games that were designed for that part will run reasonably on it, interesting insights are what it *cant* run for technical or throughput reasons. Why would you waste our time with such a boring thesis? (that's rhetorical, it's SEO bait).

[@rnssr71]

its unfortunate about the rx6600 only be a pcie x8 card, so in a pcie 2.0 bus this will hold the card back. I have to ask, what was the CPU NB set to? Mem timings?

[@vladabuba]

Still run a FX8320 as one of my test machines and it works just fine. Obviously my main machine is Ryzen 9 5900X and laptop is an 5700U.

[@AFellowGentleman]

I have this in my home pc. Time to upgrade i guess. Did not realize it's been 10 years already. That said, i can run most older games fine on this, and i can even run flight simulator 40th Anniversary Edition okay ish. I guess many games depend more on your gpu.

[@MrGibsn1960]

I'm not a huge gamer, but my son is. I built a computer back in 2014 with this CPU and i just recently moved it into his room and updated the OS. I've been surprised for what it is still capable of, and bonus for not having to spend any new money for getting him a capable computer.

[@nicholasdesilva2522]

I use a fx8350 with amd x570 4gb and it gets by with mw2 to present and need for speed heat I do have some frame drops but I feel like it's more my gpu than cpu Thanks for this video bro

[@hitbm4755]

I still have my FX 8350 as a backup system, will want to keep it as long as I can. It was really not a bad design, just not that performance compatible with how many games were programmed; for example, it performs horrendously in Resident Evil Operation Racoon City compared to an i7 870, but beats the i7 870 with a higher frame-rate in Dying Light 1. On top of that, the FX 8350 supports AVX instruction set v1, so it can still open most games out there. Games which are problematic with the FX 8350 is Far Cry 3-5, RE Operation Racoon City, StarCraft 2 late game, and DX9 Unreal Engine 3 game on Windows 10 with a pre-Navi GPU, but other than that everything pre-2022 sticks close to 60FPS or higher.

[@bennyhill4228]

95 W TDp hell no, in an energy crisis in the UK. nOpe without a GPU.......5700G no GPU 75 w, unless you got money to burn lol

[@kokilius]

fx8350 is a masterpiece, love it and still run the games fine on my hd 60 hz monitor...i dont need a marketing 100plus fps i dont even see it:)) so that is for the kids:)

[@PogoStick7]

I have a am3+ socket motherboard i am thinking to change my sempron145.what cpu i should get ? I have 6gb of ram.

[@drtomoyah8805]

Pair it with an AliExpress RX6600M (8x/16 PCIE) You are welcome! Some games on ultra

[@speedperformance42]

My running pretty good i just make a video with 104 105 fps high settings 1080p with fx 8350 and gtx 1070 what is insane

[@DMKleinArts]

I'm still gaming pretty comfortably with my fx6300. cant do the most demanding games or setting, and I'm fine with it.

[@Thomas-lv9se]

I still use my FX8350 on a daily basis - not just for gaming but also for working from home. It does everything I need it to do. However, my PC is getting really old (built it in 2013) so I'll have to upgrade soon. My FX8350-based rig will become a media server then.

[@m0nty75]

Using the FX8350 but only in a home built NAS server running TrueNAS core.

[@DuneRunnerEnterprises]

Well, it's FX 8370,and for now,still goin' stronk.😊

[@chasebh89]

2024, still got my...........2 core fx4300..... running is a bit of an overstatement

[@leeboy5830]

I still got my FX 6350, still swinging

[@HoosierHardware]

Do you feel at all limited? I was just playing with an FX-4300, and the difference between the 4300 and 8350 is huge in playability for some of these titles.

[@Richardgd8]

i use a amd fx-8350 every day it is a good cpu for call of duty blackops cold war

[@19kislacy92]

I still use the fx 8350 with a r9 380 4gb an 16 gb ram ,i play warzone on low ,rdr2 on high and get pretty good fps 40-60.but i think im gonna build a new pc in the near future 1-2 years later.

[@CheapSushi]

AMD FX-9590 was a lot of fun too.

[@minecraftphenom0892]

Until you got your electric bill 🤣😂🤣

[@CheapSushi]

@@minecraftphenom0892 yup, don't recommend still messing with it in Europe but in the US mine electricity is pretty cheap :P

[@drumsmoker731]

That chip was actually "just" a binned 8370 which got an extreme factory overclock. Some folks that got lucky could achieve the same performance from their 8370s.

[@Rolatnor]

My FX-8350 is in my alt board for storage, I run an opteron 3365 currently but I'm gonna upgrade soon

[@HoosierHardware]

I always forget about the Opteron CPUs...... (goes and checks eBay)

[@firestorm780]

I use an old AMD A6 (Piledriver) Notebook for websurfing and watching KZbin videos. It's running cusomised arch linux. With that it's still great for that usecase. It feels like 60% ish better performance on Linux compared to windows. Windows however is a hot mess on that thing (Also note that linux uses the Module concept better than windows does)

[@Mihai_Raduu]

Verry nice work tanks a lot😊AMD❤AMD Love

[@KabutoRyu]

still using it now .... i can say A LOT OF BOT NECK

[@Locke99GS]

Lucas Botkin, is that you? This what you do in your off time?

[@Youtubebinger]

8350 with a Radeon hd 6770. I mostly playing MMOs like Lost ark or ff14 with np. Newest game I bought was spellforce which I saw a lot of stuttering. Probably due to the GPU though. I tried to play diablo 4 beta and wouldn’t even let me. Again I think this is a gpu problem. Planning on upgrading it to a gtx 1060 or gtx 1070 but I read bottleneck is a lot worse for 1070 so might not be worth paying extra.

[@napalmarsch]

soon the ride with the 8370 will end thanks to the end of w10

[@valkasolidor6727]

I continued to use my 8350 until about 18 months ago when I could finally get the 5600x at retail. That system is still used by my friend's gf. The 8350 had been an upgrade from a 6300, and I still own that 6300 for some reason.

[@qaching]

is 8350 allot better than the 6350? because i just bought a 8350 after 10 years and i hope it's worth the upgrade

[@valkasolidor6727]

@@qaching Significantly better in my experience. Two more cores for one thing (or threads depending how you interpret the cpu).

[@GaminGamer420]

I built my computer with this chip in later 2012, It's still my daily computer,but I am building a new computer next week with the 5900x

[@Ragewolf2008]

I bought one back in 2012 new over clocked it to 4.1 and it still running great in my system today it has been awesome I run all the latest games at max NO PROBLEM at all it has been a great cpu.

[@hitbm4755]

Hey Wolf, why are you overclocking it to 4.1Ghz?, you will have a slightly better experience leaving it at stock with some cores boosting to the 4.2Ghz Turbo Boost.

[@hrayz]

That chip should oc to 4.6 on a basic air cooler. 4.8-5.0 on most AiO options.

[@hitbm4755]

@@hrayz It depends on the bin and also how good the airflow in your chassis is and probably also the quality of the motherboard, even if you have a gaming board. Sometimes I got a stable 4.6Ghz with my AIO on, with the air Wraith Cooler, my most stable option was 4.4Ghz. Overclocking a FX 8350 is not really worth it though, unless you can hit a stable 4.7-5.0Ghz, and even then it does not resolve issues in unoptimized games. Furthermore, one can rather run the FX 8350 at stock to extend its' lifetime. In my experience, L3 Cache is what makes the most difference in modern CPUs and one of the only things which resolves major FPS dips in problematic games.

[@hrayz]

@@hitbm4755 binning is always a condition. I tend to aim a bit conservative for long term stability. I've not had a Bulldozer run less that 4.6 GHz though. My current on has be at 4775 for 12 years. It can do 5.0, but the Motherboard gives me problems when I do that (the chip is fine.) My other chip could do 4.9 GHz without any issues, but could never hold 5.0.

[@christopherbearerofchrist9775]

YOU CAN OVERCLOCK THEM AND LOWER THE CPU TEMPS

[@jamesgrundell-zj9il]

Donated my FX8350 (paired with a GTX 950) to my kids. They play titles like Fortnite/Minecraft/Roblox and it’s perfect for the job. Looking at throwing in an RX580 into it as the bottleneck is with the GPU to hopefully get it to see them through school.

[@codidittmar4131]

Between a close a friend and myself, we've been able to scrounge together enough parts to build a computer using the fx8350 and GTX 970. We've been slowly round robinin that computer to our friends to get them into the PC gaming community as their first build. Obviously, this gets them hooked, and we work out a budget to get them onto a newer platform. It's been a successful endeavor. When everyone has their own computer, the fx8350 build will be retired and become a plex server. So yes we've been getting plenty of use out of the old girl

[@daveblack7370]

I'm currently rebuilding my old setup with the fx 8350 on a asus crosshair v formula board with a rx 580 8g and I am hopeful! It was running 2 rx 480 8g but they are long gone!

[@davidnguyen6823]

I am using it with a 970ti, and honestly still rocks! I play Cyberpunk 2077 without too many noticeable issues, and have been very happy with it. I am currently piecing some parts to a new system, but when that's built, I will give this to my little brother, as he will likely still get a few years more use out of it playing Minecraft and Roblox.

[@aaronjenkins2135]

I just went to a ryzen 7600x from a fx 8350. Total war games were getting slogged real bad even with a 6600xt. But and older game 2018 or before had zero issues.

[@alleyb62]

Mine started dropping the ball after 10 years of being overclocked to the 9s ...

[@MKylander]

Mine has been paired with many GPUs, latest was RX 5700 XT and I got a quite steady 80fps in GTA V with 2560x1080 and full settings. Fallout 4, Dying Light, SnowRunner, Witcher 3 and many others ran with ease too. Recently upgraded to Ryzen 5 setup which I managed to find affordably because the FX-8350 struggled a bit with Fallout 76 and Witcher 3 Next-Gen and I didn't dare trying Dying Light 2 or few others with it.

[@ninjatanuki]

Just do you guys know, AM4 coolers work with AM3/AM3+! An insane (and cheap!) upgrade for AM3 CPUs is to grab a second hand Wraith Prism cooler off of Ebay or a friend. They are overkill cooling for AM3 and look awesome as well. That's what I did before i made the switch to Ryzen, i threw an AM4 cooler on my Phenom x4 965be and my temps dropped by over 50%, it was crazy! Definitely gave my machine a new lease on life until I made the switch to Ryzen myself. I still use my AM3+ system to this day as a backup PC, visitor LAN gaming rig, an entertainment center media server. The temps hardly even budge from idle to load, never seen anything like it. So yeah, if you have an old AM3 machine throw a modern am4/am5 cooler on it and it will give it a new lease on life!

[@SirReptitious]

My main system is still a FX-8350 w/32GB1866. I bought a Coolermaster 212+EVO for $15 after a $5 rebate, and slapped on a second 120mm fan for push/pull from a 5 pack box of coolermaster 120mm basic case fans that I bought on sale for $5 IIRC. I have a 120mm case fan in the front, top, and back of my case. I run all those fans and the two on the CPU at 100% all the time. My idle temp is the same as light usage like just Firefox; mid to high 30sC. If all 8 cores are being maxed out it will get to the upper 50sC. The system has been running 24/7 for the 10 years since I built it and the only problem so far is I had to replace one of the case fans because of a failed bearing. No problem since I keep plenty of spares. I've never bothered overclocking because it gets the job done as is and I don't want it eating more power or heating up the room more. Hopefully I will be able to build a Ryzen 7800(not 3D since I don't really game and the 3D ones are slower at productivity) with 64GB DDR5. Like the guy before you said, I will probably make my 8350 into a media server because of all the movies and TV series I have. My current backup system is a Phenom IIX4 w/8GB1600. I only use it for turbotax and getting torrents from the pirate bay with my vpn because both turbotax and the vpn require win10 and I have win7 on my 8350 because I can't stand any win version above 7.

[@DragoonKnight5515]

I build my first computer in 2013 that had an FX-8120 in it. Months later my motherboard went out and I RMA'ed almost everything except the power supply(it costed me $50 to ship it out and I couldn't afford that at the time). When I received my processor from AMD, it wasn't the FX-8120, as I was expecting. It was the FX-8350! It was awesome to get an upgrade like that without paying for it. I have had that same processor and motherboard to this day. Since then I have added more ram to 32 GB, upgraded my graphics card from a Geforce 640 GT, to 1050 Ti, to RTX 2060 Super. I'm working on upgrading my pc completely slowly while I am currently looking for a graphics card that is a next level to extend the life of the computer for another two years. I was looking at the 2080 Ti as the next thing, I am still looking. As I am ok with the 8GB card for now, I am mainly focused on getting my pc parts and change the system first before the card.

[@josephnorris4095]

I really do miss that cpu, it was a lot of fun to own.

[@HoosierHardware]

The overclocking headroom was huge on it IF you had a good cooler strapped on.