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cpu upgrade from thuban ?

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Hell, if you have a Fry's nearby, keep an eye on their clearanced CPUs and mobos.
Picked up a bunch of SB/IB i3s and i5s last year for cheap (<= $50).

Typing this from a a $9.99AR MSI P67A-C43 + $45 i5 2450P @ "3.9GHz" system.
 
Because that is about the same "level" of overclock he had on his 1035T. If he can hit 4.6 on the FX, then it probably means he could also hit 3.5 or 3.6 on the thuban.
correct, i can in fact hit 3.6 with my cpu. info makes sense.

Switching to a six-core FX would be little more than a sidegrade, but going to an 8320 or 8350 will give you a big performance boost.

I had a 1035T for a long time and ran it at 3.6, then upgraded to an 8350 on the same board. At stock, the 8350 was just ahead of the overclocked Thuban, except in multi-core aware applications, where it won easily. But when I overclocked the 8350, it was clearly an improvement. It reached 4.5 GHz at stock voltage and is stable at 4.85 with 1.48v. Even at 4.5, it's clearly faster than the 1035T at 3.6 was, by at least 20 percent and often more than that.

Your motherboard will handle the 83x0 with no problem. I've been running on the 970 version of that board, the 970A-UD3, for well over a year with no issues.

I won't recommend the AMD 9-series chipset platform and FX to anyone buying from scratch, because it's a dead end and there are better ways to spend your money. But if you're already invested in AM3+, then the 83x0 processors still make very good sense as upgrades.
this is very helpful, thanx ...


the upgrade to the 8320 makes most sense, considering i want to xfire.
 
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