I wouldnt upgrade to either X99 or LGA1150 at this point. Skylake is coming later this month, and with it, there should be a drop in DDR4 prices due to skylake, and later AMDs ZEN cpus, moving towards DDR4. And especially not at a good price compared to what OP paid for it. You must also remember, with all the shit being talked about FX, do you really think it will be so easy to sell it? Probably not. While X99 is good for serious users, just overclocking the FX8350 should produce good enough results to keep going for a while. Gaining X amount of performance in tasks for a substantially higher cost isnt worth it unless money is no question. Honestly, for the lower cost, it is worth it. Yes ive heard of cinebench, wanna know what a FX 8320 4.52GHz scores in multi thread? Cuz, i happened to own such a FX before they are just better binned chips that can run much cooler sacrificing less clock speeds for much lower voltages. Honestly though, for this setup, i would suggest a FX 8320e or 8370e. You do not need a super hardcore board to OC, all you need is 8+2phase power delivery, which even some 970 boards have, so you do not need to get the super expensive ROG or TUF boards to make it happen. You can turn most 8320s up by 700-900MHz without touching voltages, they dont produce that much more heat from it either, you may even be able to get it to 4.1GHz on stock cooler if you got a good chip (i got mine up to 4Ghz on stock, but it was at boiling point, almost.thats when i bought a better cooler) you can see the scores yourself on the spreadsheet to compare.įX 8xxx is 40% ish behind haswell refresh CPUs in IPC as for benchmarks this benchmark uses your cpu to render a picture and it is heavily mutlithreaded like your editing software. the 5820K is easily 90-100% faster at 4.6/4.7ghz.Īpu don't sell well amd 8 cores tend to do pretty well £60-80 easy. the 8 core fx is clocked slow and has nearly 1/2 the ipc of a haswell based chip. Why are the numbers a tad high? mutithread performance.