Building a PC with AMD's FX 8350 in 2023... Can It Still Game?

00:00 - Intro
01:38 - Parts Overview
05:35 - Building the PC
10:21 - Build Complete, Power On, and Glamour Shots
11:40 - Overclock and Testing Discussion
12:41 - Benchmarks
15:50 - Closing Thoughts

Benchmarking Music: Tobu - Louder Now

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[Turktien]

For anyone still using these (I retired mine two years ago and now have a 5800X3D), Locking your framerate at 60 will really help with your lows as you're almost always going to be CPU bottlenecked now. Locking the framerate to 60 (in my case I have a freesync and locked mine at 49 since 48 was my bottom end) takes the extra load back off the CPU instead of letting the video card push it to its max all the time (uncapped framerate) and that really helped keep the frametimes more consistent :)

[danielyoshida]

I still have my 8350 with a gtx 1060 and my gf uses for basic working and light gaming. Still an awesome pc for its age.

[Loki_Trickster]

My 8350 was passed to 5 different people, and now lives out a quiet life as a media box. That cpu, motherboard and ram owes me nothing for a long while now, and when it finally kicks the bucket or I move another part down into its place. I'm going to encase it in resin. For a quote "bad cpu" as reviewers have said. That cpu has started several pcgamers passions. And has had everything from a hd 7750 to a 1070ti hooked up to it. From Main gaming rig to racing simulator chair, minecraft server to sleepy nas/media storage system.

[bstaznkidlyfe]

I'm still using this CPU today..It works what I need and play games..

[zuffin]

The best thing about older pc parts is that smaller youtubers can test like 100s of parts and combinations on a budget and make fun videos like this

[mikeymike]

Incredible. Just rebuilt my old 8350 build from back in the day, can’t believe I found a video and a professional well done video at that about the same thing. So cool haha

[bne]

You could've gotten a lot more out of this CPU. Core frequency barely matters for FX CPUs. The trick is doing FSB overclocks and taking both Hypertransfer and Northbridge as far as you can. If your HT won't do 2600, it's worth ignoring FSB overclocks and instead doing 2600 NB with 1.45 NB voltage and 2400 HT, then keeping the cores at 4.6. Pretty much any FX 8350 will do that.

Additionally - RAM OC. 2133Mhz mininum - pretty much any 1600CL9 sticks will do 2133CL10 at 1.65V and DDR3 can easily take that voltage. 2400-2666 is definitely better though. These CPUs are starved for memory, so tuning timings is worth it. I found tRRD and tFAW had the biggest advantages.

[Angealll]

I got my fx8350 back in 2013 and used it for gaming until 2019, then my brother got to use until last year and it is now chillimg in our family's media PC, thinking about framin the CPU and motherboard as a cool nostalgia piece when i retire it. All in all 10 years of solid performance and no problems. Could never really get why people were so disappointed in the platform other than that it was not as fast as intel at the time.

[webduelist]

Everyone in 2013, "its terrible" Everyone in 2024 "how is this thing still alive when the 2500k is long dead"

[varela]

Still rocking my FX8350! I'm running it with a GTX 1070 with STARFIELD! While it is rough at the edges I will still continue to play it on my rig until I can get my new rig next month!

[ianmcculloch]

I still have a AMD FX8350 still, great video

[chriswright]

i love seeing people still discover these workhorses. currently still running an FX-8350 on a GA-990FXA-UD3 board (rev3) with 16gb RAM and an RX570. you definitely won't be running anything new at ultra settings, but if you tweak something here and change something there you can still have a great time with no issues. great video.

[zuffin]

I found a great buy for one of these in an old used pc i bought, this guy put the biggest radiator fan combo i'd ever seen. Like perpendicular mount, fan sandwiched between TWO radiators, and then he also had r9 270x SLI... really a crazy pc for 2012

[napstericious]

Shader loading time has been fixed with the latest AMD drivers. That’s not because of the cpu but rather gpu drivers

[farleygoertzen]

I'm watching this on my 8350 with GTX 570, 16 gigs ram and Win 11 pro!

[jerrybandy]

I'm still using the FX 8350 with 16GB ram in the MSI 970A-G46 and the R9 390x (8 GB) gpu, both of which are power hungry and make great room heaters. But it's running at 4.3 GHz and can still run Microsoft Flight Simulator on medium settings. They were both "state-of-the-art" 8-10 years ago. But it's still got some life left in it.

[mattdrafting]

Until just a month ago I was running an fx8350 and a pair of 660ti reference cards running in sli. I'm currently still running the 8350, cooled with a 120 aio which is barely enough. I used to have it overclocked to a stable 4.6 but the silicon has degraded and won't run much past base clock without losing stability now. The 660ti were rewritten with custom bios's cranked to their limits. I was happily running anything that wasn't full dx12. On an rx580 now but moving on to an i7 8700k and 6700xt.

[dandahl]

I have my FX8350 BE running on a Gigabyte 990FX mother board with a RX480 with 8GB graphics with a 2GB SATA HD. No need to OC this thing already runs at 4GHz+. My main PC for 8 years. Still runs Win10 64 and games really well.

[ThatUnfortunate]

i'm still running an AMD phenom ii x6 1045t and athlon ii x2 645.

Get about 60ish fps on older titles like l4d2 running everything on max with a gtx 970 but modern triple a games, it wont start cause its missing SSE instructions. Other than that, its still kicking today in 2023.

[kennethmcclellan]

I went through some of my old stuff the other day and found one of those and the older 1090T. Both did a good job back in the day.