AMD FX-8350 in 2019! -- BENCHMARKS! How does it hold up?

So a while back when transplanting my brother's FX-8350 system into a new case, i got the idea to record benchmark footage and information at 1080p. His FX system is paired with a Zotac Amp! Extreme 980ti, so its a very capable GPU and system overall. Wonder how it'll hold up in 2018/2019? Watch the video and find out!

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[metuz]

Think they do better today than 2-3 years ago, due to games get more and more multithreaded

[DSGB-JC]

Running an 8350 that I built on a budget in 2015. Still works good but I notice it's starting to slip with current standards. 3000 series here I come!

[jeffgilbert]

Still rolling with my FX 8350 - original late 2013 build with ASUS Sabertooth MB and 16GB DDR3. Only upgrades in all these years have been to move to an SSD and graphics card to Raedon 580 ... still solid and does all I need

[mrbaer]

8350 black edition brand new (free from coworker)
990xa-gd55-7640 used so crossing my fingers ($65)
16gig 2x8 ram ($80) reg
500 wd ssd blue ($68) sale
650 power supply ($60) sale
580 8gig gpu ($190) sale
case ($35) sale
deep cool cpu fan ($18) sale. Which I found a review for on this channel so shout out for that review helped me in my choice!
Should be building it soon as all my stuff arrives, maybe this weekend if I am lucky. Excited to see how it preforms, I have high hopes after watching this! Ty for this video! I know it isn't a 980 Ti, but it also was only $190 so when you have a budget you make due with what you can afford lol.

[Stephen-zdcq]

I am still rocking a FX-8370, 16gb ram and a RX580 graphics card. Cpu is overclocked to 4.4Ghz, ram is overclocked to 1800Mhz. Cinabench is right over 700 on score. I play most modern titles without issues, and do video editing in adobe premiere pro without issue.

[Dj-Mccullough]

I updated my personal rig to a ryzen 7-1800x about a year ago from a fx-8350. That 8350 is currently running my best friends computer with a geforce 1060-6 gig card and kicking all kinds of butt. As long as you give an 8350 a decient video card, they will play whatever you put in front of them.

Very professional video. Once I looked at your subscribers I was in shock. I expected you to have 100k+. Subbed.

[michaelkenny]

Had this CPU since 2012 and still going strong!

[Hunglo]

my wife built her computer with an 8350, she mainly uses it for designs, not so much for games unless i host lan parties. but it holds on its own pretty well

[TheKingHyral]

I have an 8350 with RX 480 8GB and it works like a dream.

[hadesdragon]

My AMD FX 8350 is almost maxed out 16 gb ddr3 2133mhz and just got a xfx rx 570 rs 8gb. had a r9 290 4 gb. Looking to get a new board n ryzen chip next year but the fx chip has served me well, ill be on division 2 with it.

[Archer]

Fx 8350 Overclocked at 4.62 ghz. Msi Radeon RX 590 8GB. Asus Sabertooth 990FX. [32 GB Total Ram] <Patriot Memory Performance Viper 3 DDR3 16GB (1866MHZ)> <Crucial 1866MHZ DDR3 16GB>Kingston SSd 350 GB. Rosewill ATX Mid Tower Gaming PC Computer Case with Dual Ring Blue LED Fans

[aneveningatthesaladbar]

Lol, this made me feel justified in my cheapskatedness. Good old 8350 at 4.4 hasnt given me any hiccups.

[MrHeHim]

My (still) current computer has been on 24/7/365 as a file/media server, personal cloud, gaming, 3D CAD, transcoding machine. When it ran Windows 7 it lasted 6 months once without ever restarting.

Got the FX-8320 the month it was released about 6+ years ago, got it because it was open box along with a open box motherboard PLUS the $50 instant rebate they had at Micro Center for about $180 with taxes. Still regret not getting the i7-3770K because i wasn't aware at the time that when delided it was a monster overclocker despite saving about $200 lol, thinking it was just going to be like the i7-2600K and not a whole class above. BUT! i never sold it and got that because it was always enough, never really bottlenecking the GPU i was using because i was running a 60Hz monitor anyway. Although you can easily argue that the polling rate would be reduced and cause a bit of latency. And I'm VERY familiar with that stuff, as i played semi-pro CS waay back in the day lol. Almost no one made enough money to call themselves pro, there's was at most 10 players in all of gaming making anything around 3 figures (around 2005). Then i lost my virginity :-)


Then i got a second HD 7850 and downclocked both to 1GHz because it was too much heat in the case. CPU was also warmer so i added a second similar Cooler Master fan for push/pull and clocked it at 4.5GHz. 4.57GHz seems to be the sweet spot with the voltage having to jump up a lot to hit 4.6GHz 100% stable AND, I'm OCD and can't stand to change to FSB to 203 and not to a number that's not divisible by at least 5, or follows the rule of 1/3's.

Sold both the HD 7850's after less than a year because it was just for funzies as Crossfire/SLI only works so well with so much tweaking for each game. Got a HD 7950 3GB, put Liquid Metal Ultra on everything!, pushed the power limit to 150% with a software mod and clocked it at 1.45GHz/1700 100% stable. Tried for 1.6GHz and while testing went to drop one off and GPU was dead when i came back, thought it burned out because the log showed it reached 93C under Furmark BUT! years later when i opened it up i found while rubbing everything clean with a q-tip some liquid metal squirted out at one of the resisters on the GPU chip :-) fyucc lol. Picked up a R9 280X, clocked it to 1.25GHz/1500MHz without liquid metal LOL.

Changed my WD Black drives for server grade Hitachi drives for my RAID 0 storage, big performance upgrade.

And picked up a PC Power & Cooling Silencer MK III 850W PSU worth over $200 for $50 (again, Micro Center open box but with missing molex connectors lol).

Got a R9 280 3GB for dirt cheap for Crossfire, just for funzies because i wanted to see where multi-gpu where at.

Got 16GB of 2400MHz CAS11 ram for $65, found the latency overall slightly regressed performance from the 1866 CAS7 ram. Left it at 2133 CAS 9, about the same performance as the 1866 CAS 7 ram ;-)

Got a 4K monitor, was butt hurt with the 3GB VRAM wasn't enough and sold the R9 280X and 280 for a R9 390 8GB (ASUS Strix broke the black and white theme, DAMN!).

Shit VRM design on v3 of my motherboard started to show itself despite adding pressure the the heatsink, cut a piece of copper to size of the heat sink and used Arctic ceramic between the heat sink and the copper and got some Antec thermal pad to mate the copper and VRM's. BOOM! goodbye throttling even at 4.7GHz.. too hot though, only tested.

Revamped all my storage, the server grade drives where too loud. Despite 37K hours (60K being the lifetime of the drives) they were replaced with slightly higher performance Toshiba drives that are queef quiet. Added 2x1TB RAID 1 in ReFS, windows discontinued support and i forgot when i was dicking around and couldn't replace a drive even through powershell.. so i upgraded my license to Pro for Workstation (also fuck you restarts) and used a spare 1TB drive to put on my router as a NAS for temporal backup of the ReFS data.

Upgraded the mesh grill in the front of the PC with a thin honeycomb i designed, put some industrial 140mm (black) Noctua fans in the front, and replaced the EVO 212 with a Zalman 9900 MAX i for open box still 100% new for $25 (fucking Micro Center). Not as nice of a sound to them when making turbulence, but everall better. That's the last thing i did about 2 years ago.

I'm sure i skipped on a bunch of stuff, like adding sound deadening material to the inside of the case and designing and 3D printing other stuff for it. I've never had a CPU for more than 2 years since my first PC in 1999.

[Forkin]

Still having 8350FX with GTX1060 today and there is no reason for change.

[kevinhill]

Fx8350 4.3ghz, 16gb dd3 1866mhz, amd saphire 290 tri-x 1300mhz, I can still play most games on high 1080p, I am due a upgrade though.

[lukemcgook]

I had my 8350 until a couple of months ago, I upgraded to Ryzen 5 2600. The 8350 was a huge and extremely cheap upgrade to my Phenom II X6 1090T

[isaackim]

Running an FX-8350, 16 GB DDR III, and a Radeon RX 480

[JasonPrice]

Fx 8300 series is still plenty for most people that aren't tubers or twitchers. The one place the old platform will let you down a little is in drive controller performance and maybe PCI Express.

Otherwise, an FX 8350 and a new 1660 Ti will more than cover casual PC gaming at 1080p.

[SlavGuns]

It's amazing how well the FX series has held up. Rocking an FX6300 and now with 16 gigs of ram and an RX570. Chugs through 4k footage without many delays. 1080p editing is not a problem at all. Saw this video and realized the CPU was almost 9 years old. lol. Will upgrade to Ryzen R7 3900 or 3700 shortly. Getting a new board and new ram does kinda suck though. Was thinking of upgrading to the best AM3+ cpu, but for the price, you can get a ryzen 3600.