I just resurrected my phenom II 1080T processor. It is running my way to old freenas box for the next few days while it transfers data to my new freenas box. I think I may make it a plex box after this.
Took the spare 8350 rig and just wanted to see how it would handle some older games as i never gamed on the 8350 honestly. Thought it would be fun to see where botttlenecks begin and end at 4k so i slapped my 1070ti in there to see. Way older games i prob won't bother to mention as these titles no one really plays or we all know they will play fine but BF4 ran fairly well paired with hardly no bottlenecks in avg fps with my given settings of all ultra low effects and no msaa. Had some dips in gpu usage and its prob cause the 8350 is housed in a 780g el cheapo board and it just throttles the chip after the cpu takes a beating for a while. I played some Overwatch and it pegs out my 1070ti perfectly and performance is very solid and smooth with 70+ fps at any given time all maxed out minus aa. GTA V ran ok but the minimums dropped into the 50s in spots i normally hit 70 in. Game isn't maxed out but i went for settings where i wouldn't drop under 50 on the 8700 non k and i see them much more often on the 8350.
Took the spare 8350 rig and just wanted to see how it would handle some older games as i never gamed on the 8350 honestly.
For fun and games, I tried running The Witcher 3 on an old Athlon X3 445@3.1GHz coupled with a spare GTX970. Ran perfectly @1440p/30fps/Ultra Settings, with no frame drops below.
Just proves the GPU is more important then the CPU today. Unless you're going for 60+fps gaming.
Witcher 3 is kind of old. I doubt you would get that fps in Cyberpunk 2077.
But it wasn't a bad showing for a 7 year old bargain basement CPU at the time.
I do enjoy seeing where something like this 8350 lands today.Not everyone can afford upgrades and to some people like my buddy who owned this 8350 before me, he was fairly happy with it. Not everyone requires a 60fps golden standard of gaming which seems to be where the industry has fixated on. Some people may just enjoy Overwatch and well the 8350 is perfectly fine with it pumping out a avg of over 100. Some people may want a 144hz setup and well the 8350 doesn't work there . Others may focus on how bad this old cpu runs in the newest possible games and its like well what did you expect was going to happen?
I wouldn't preach to the masses to go and buy a 8350 today but i guess if you got anything less then a FX6300 on a AM2+ setup that just maybe it could be a viable option if you manage your expectations. It's only a 8 core 8 threaded chip that retails used for about what a fourth to fifth the price of a 9700 non k? It may be a reasonable upgrade over a complete system overhaul. I think i remember seeming them for $50 on Newegg shortly before they removed it not to long ago. I would argue that performance is solid for that price.
Due to some money-problems I had to part out my 6600k gaming rig and go back to using my old 8350 rig @ 4.2 on all cores awhile back.
Was expecting things to get ugly but although I did notice slow-downs, gaming wasn't really that much of an issue, especially after a buddy gifted me his old GTX 980 which provided a very noticeable bump in FPS over a GTX 770.
Are you still using the 8350 with the 980?
I've recently done testing with a stock and overclocked FX 8350. I also matched it up against an I5 3570K - While the FX pulls a lot more power, it still holds up fine for most modern games. In some games the FX 8350 Overclocked was close to or topping out the RTX 2060
Skip to 6:20 for the benchmarks
I've recently done testing with a stock and overclocked FX 8350. I also matched it up against an I5 3570K - While the FX pulls a lot more power, it still holds up fine for most modern games. In some games the FX 8350 Overclocked was close to or topping out the RTX 2060
Skip to 6:20 for the benchmarks
Not everyone requires a 60fps golden standard of gaming which seems to be where the industry has fixated on.
Good graphics doesn't beat good gameplay
But it wasn't a bad showing for a 7 year old bargain basement CPU at the time.
Let's face it, a lot of those 4-core Intel CPUs from back in the day wouldn't have done much better.