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Warm? AMD FX-8120 Eight-Core $119 @New Egg.

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How much of a difference in performance between this and the pildrivers, because im honestly thinking of picking one of these up for a budget gamer machine and I dont think you will ever see any of these 8 cores cheaper than this.
 
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It looks to be a great performance per dollar price tag. There are alot of i5's and most i7's that will outperform this on a per core bases, and you will leave alot of high end games wanting more, but it will def get you gaming at some good frame rates. The power and heat will however make it a warm gaming rig and in my next pc I plan to be very conscious about this. My current rig can really raise the temp in my small room to uncomfortable levels.
 
Dang this is really tempting. I'm running a 965@3.8 right now but this would be a nice easy upgrade at the same wattage but twice as many cores....:hmm:
 
I'd get a FX-6300 for the same price (with an additional $10 gift card). The higher clocks and Piledriver improvements would make it just as fast without being as much of a space heater.
 
I ended up getting an FX-8320 at Microcenter....$159 plus additional $40 off when bundled with the motherboard I wanted (GA-970A-UD3P). WHS box in the basement that also does a lot of encoding & transcoding & DLNA serving.
 
Don't let the 8 cores distract you, it won't mean a thing in games. You will be hard pressed to find a game that uses 4 cores. 8 helps alot if you are encoding video on a regular basis.
 
I've used this cpu to run various DC projects for 2 years now. It isn't crazy warm. My video card produces far more heat than this thing does. I think I max out at 51*C (usually run at 46-48*). That isn't that much heat being dumped into the room.
 
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