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AMD FX-series CPUs, fire sale when Ryzen hits?

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Dresdenboy said:
And prices are roughly constant. AMD might still leave them next to the 4C Ryzen models for a while.
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Maybe it's some kind of idiot test where if you try to buy one, they just open a trap door at the checkout counter. Now that we don't have to worry about wolf attacks, etc. there needs to be a way to thin out the herd as it were.

Either that or they go into some kind of $5 tech bin equivalent where old people buy them for their grandchildren in some kind of futile exercise to show an understanding for their grandchildren's interests while missing the mark entirely.
 
Look on eBay, prices stay stagnant all the time, because people buy these things and then 5-10 years later they still think they hold the same value and try and get most of that back. I guess these people are depreciation blind, but for retailers who have stock to get rid of, you could see prices drop a little, but it's not like this stock is burning a hole in their warehouses.
 
For reference, this is the image that Ars Technica used to illustrate the original Bulldozer benchmarks all the way back in 2011:

faildozer-4eca75b-intro.jpg


https://arstechnica.com/business/20...benchmarks-are-here-and-theyre-a-catastrophe/
 
Lol Great! A turgid ancient under performing CPU for an appropriately low price, where do I sign up😉? I can't for the life of me understand why anyone
would ever contemplate buying one but I guess you can't miss what you've never experienced nor understand how green grass can be if you live in a hole.
 
I love the FX hate... I've very happily gamed on mine without a problem. If you tweak your CPU, there is a lot of room to improve the FX. I was able to run my FX9370 @ ~1.25v / 4.4GHz. That's really not bad. I have two high end AM3+ boards, if I didn't already have two FX's I'd definitely get another one.
 
Jackie60 said:
Lol Great! A turgid ancient under performing CPU for an appropriately low price, where do I sign up😉? I can't for the life of me understand why anyone would ever contemplate buying one but I guess you can't miss what you've never experienced nor understand how green grass can be if you live in a hole.
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I think Bulldozer did really well in the 7zip benchmark. Maybe someone has need for a dedicated machine that will handle archiving and compressing files.

Or maybe they're trying to start a technology museum.

Or they just want to get a whole pile of them to see if they can get a meth head to tear apart the chips for the copper.

I'm sure there are loads of reasons. Not necessarily good ones, but reasons.
 
Keep forgetting about that new g4560. Pretty much crushes everything sub $100.- The AMD fire sale just got hotter! New 8320e for $50.-
 
It's just your fetish with low performance machines. Let it go.
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but but thats why i love his posts 😛! And they always remind me I do not need a Sky/kabylake to help my old neighbours out in getting a new PC 🙂
Don't let it go xD!
 
mxnerd said:
125W TPW for an outdated CPU? Pass.
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I suppose you could give it to someone living in Canada and they could fire it up in the winter when they need a little extra heating. If you've got electrical heating anyways you may as well get some additional use out of that electricity. Add an old GPU and it can mine digital currency and perhaps pay for itself.
 
As someone else said, you can already pickup an fx 8320e for $89.99 if you have a microcenter near you. I remember when you could pickup Phenom II 965's for like $60 dollars, or a Phenom II 1045 for like $80 dollars after Bulldozer launched, they were great budget deals at the time. Honestly when the FX 8 cores get down to $50 - $60 bucks a piece or so, i plan on picking up a few more. They may be old, and not the most efficient things around, but they can still get work done. They are great buys for budget VM rigs, or just anything where you need some cheap threads, and honestly they'd still make great foundations for most everyday computers. I wont be surprised to see them in super cheap budget builds for years to come. Also Gigabyte and i believe MSI released some new boards for AM3+ maybe a year or so ago. They added USB 3.1 and M.2 capabilities to the platform, meaning that there isn't really much that's missing other than native support.

http://www.gigabyte.us/Motherboard/GA-970-Gaming-SLI-rev-10#ov

http://www.gigabyte.us/Motherboard/AMD-Socket-AM3-Plus

https://us.msi.com/Motherboard/970A-GAMING-PRO-CARBON.html#hero-overview

https://us.msi.com/Motherboards
 
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For anyone buying FX now, there is the additional onus of DDR3 being more expensive now than it was maybe six months ago. So while FX and AM3+ mobo prices will be down, RAM prices will be up. Kind of sad really.

It just makes the 4560 look more appealing in comparison, unless you know for a fact that you want 8t
 
DrMrLordX said:
For anyone buying FX now, there is the additional onus of DDR3 being more expensive now than it was maybe six months ago. So while FX and AM3+ mobo prices will be down, RAM prices will be up. Kind of sad really.

It just makes the 4560 look more appealing in comparison, unless you know for a fact that you want 8t
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Youre right and it's one thing to take into account. Companies are ramping down DDR3 production because its been a couple of years since the switch to DDR4 by intel, and AMD on their A series chips, and anything new that's going to be built not is going to use DDR3. Meaning those DDR3 stockpiles will be drying up, and causing prices to go up.

Edit: Also you're not kidding, the Pentium G4560 is looking pretty awesome for $64 bucks.

http://www.techspot.com/review/1325-intel-pentium-g4560/

https://translate.google.com/transl...tium-g4560-test-kaby-lake/&edit-text=&act=url
 
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artk2219 said:
Youre right and it's one thing to take into account. Companies are ramping down DDR3 production because its been a couple of years since the switch to DDR4 by intel, and AMD on their A series chips, and anything new that's going to be built not is going to use DDR3. Meaning those DDR3 stockpiles will be drying up, and causing prices to go up.
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And it will end up being cheaper or the same to build a RyZen rig instead.
 
It's still a good option for budget. You can find an FX 8350 for 150 dollars, sometimes less and the FX 8320e is evenwaa. The performance can compare to an i5 or in some cases i7. For gaming it's still a decent CPU. The CPU isn't a bottleneck for most games, especially now with modern APIs which can spread the load to multiple cores.
Extra performance from higher end CPUs is mostly beneficial for compute related tasks like video editing, music production, rendering and conversion, compiling applications from source, 3d models, raytracing, scientific calculation etc.
 
whm1974 said:
And it will end up being cheaper or the same to build a RyZen rig instead.
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You may be right, but some people may have other parts laying around, may get a good deal on memory, open box or clearance deals on boards, things like that. It will eventually be a better deal to build Ryzen, but id say there will probably be a good 6 months where those FX's will make some great builds. It's just such a mixed bag in performance though, single thread obviously it wont do great, but in multi threaded apps it does not do bad at all, i forgot how well it compared against a 2600k, and even a modern I5 when threads came into play. Also for gaming it still mostly does fine, yes newer chips handle things smoother, but you wont be suffering with an FX. Grid autosport does not look like its optimized worth a damn for AMD's GPU's though.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/11083/the-intel-core-i3-7350k-60w-review/6
 
ElFenix said:
Larry if you need an 8320e I'll go get you one at microcenter and ship it to you at cost.
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That's a nice gesture; thank you. But I'm less than an hour away from a MC, if I really wanted one for their prices.

I was hoping for $50 8-core lower-end FX CPUs, when Ryzen hits.
 
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