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After sometime it looks like the bulldozers are out (not just the ol' piledrivers). The tippy-top being the eightcore 8350. It uses the AM3+ which means it should be backward compatible for anyone on that board (thought check your mobo's site for a bios update or something).

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AMD FX-8350 Vishera 4.0GHz (4.2GHz Turbo) Socket AM3+ 125W Eight-Core Desktop Processor FD8350FRHKBOX
32 nm Vishera 125W
8MB L3 Cache
4 x 2MB L2 Cache
$219.99

newegg

Reviews and junk:
http://benchmarkrevi...=1&limitstart=1
http://www.engadget....review-roundup/
http://www.pcgamer.c...fx-8350-review/
http://www.hardwarec...ra-arrives.html

The over all gist seems to be - an okay improvement over the piledrivers okay with some of the i5s on gaming (but slays them on multithreading), but still sticking below the super enthusiast Intel chips. I have to say though - eight cores at 4gz (with unlocked multipliers and I've seen people screen shots having it running stable - on air - at 5gz for all cores).

The general consensus is good cheap chip that is lacking in the power consumption and single thread speeds as intel.



I agree it looks like a nice chip, man if that price isn't right, and I wonder if I would if it would jump my user experience.. Damnit I want my giga-whats-its-hertz to be MOAR! 3.1ghz < 4.0gz!!!!111!

It would be the logical jump if I was already on an AM3+ board but I am not.

Still rocking out the AMD X26000+ on the ol' Biostar A770E with a nice 9800gt video card. It did well on skyrim and still keeps going the day to day with VMing and other abuses I put it through.

A quick spec sift through newegg and it looks like that the 8350 chip, board, sixteen geebees of ram, and a new sata drive would be about 470. Not shabby. Clearly a new video card would be down the line.

Running the same-ish setup an Intel Core i7-3770 would be about a hundo more

Is anyone else looking at upgrading or are they rocking out fine where they are?