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besides all the x58 madness going on around the channel people have asked that I take a look from time to time at the piledriver FX 8350 and the reason why I didn't take a look is because I thought it was overpriced at least when I went to look for deals until yesterday where I picked up this CPU cooler an FX 8350 and a 970 extreme for motherboard for around about a hundred and ten Australian dollars in USD terms that's eighty five US dollars which in my opinion is a bargain for all that combination now some of the other parts that we picked up here we've got a GTX 780 this is from EVGA now I did get this for free but hold on a moment I know you're probably thinking oh I got it donated no I actually pulled this out of a $600 PC that I built in the past where I replaced it with a gtx 1060 and then up sold that so essentially i made $15 and got this graphics card for free and the a gigabytes of memory i exchanged that for helping someone overclock their x58 motherboard so i saved them a lot of hassle a lot of time and they gave us a gigabytes of ddr3 memory now for the hard drive we're going with a brand new 1 terabyte from Seagate this comes in at 58 Australian dollars or if here in the US you can pick these up for around 45 USD possibly even cheaper since we do pay tax here in Australia and then the last component is the case this is a case calm case with a 700 watt power supply although I have tested this power supply in the past and it is quite decent it does have strong amperage on the 12 volt line got this combination 475 Australian dollars which would be about 58 dollars in the US of A and that brings this whole total of the build to a hundred and eighty-eight USD or if you're in Australia 243 Australian dollars so we've already got value for money sitting here but of course I'm very curious to see how the FX 8350 holds up in 2018 especially since I've just tested the Westmere 6 core Z on the X 50 675 and that did extremely well I'll put the link for the video up here if you want to see that but we've got a one terabyte hard drive I know some people are gonna say this definitely blows out the budget but in my experience at least on the Gold Coast I can't get good hard drives for cheap the people selling use hard drives there literally over like five to seven years old and at that stage they're really slow I wouldn't want to do that when I on sell a computer to someone it's just a nightmare when you're trying to boot something up or get games to load when the hard drives just that slow so putting in a new hard drive not only saves me a lot of time when I'm doing benchmarks and installing things but it also saves a potential buyer a lot of hassle with all that aside these parts here although they look pretty clean they could still use a bit of a touch-up so that's exactly what we're gonna do we're going to install it in the case and see how this thing performs welcome back to take us city and the first thing we want to do here is take off all these heat sinks and make sure the thermal paste is okay even though I'm not gonna be hosing this down with brake cleaner because it looks like it doesn't need it I'm still gonna be checking the thermal paste or the thermal pads on all these four different heat sinks here that's just to make sure that everything's running okay and same with the graphics card as well because if the thermal paste has gotten really hard and it's crammed up it's not gonna be doing anywhere near as good as a fresh layer of paste support apart the graphs got and the motherboard and the Northbridge here and the Southbridge they are really crusty they need a thermal paste change desperately I don't even know what's going on here it's like this brown paste mixed with silver paste that really doesn't look good and then the graphics card here has a patch of thermal paste on it so I'm glad I pulled all these apart because they could use some tech yes love and now and then we'll put it back together here's the build it is complete and we had to do some jungle management here this was really bad there's just absolutely no cable management options in this case and because this is a non modular power supply it's just got cables everywhere so all things considered it's a pretty tight case pretty flimsy but everything is sorted out and one thing we're going to do with this case is actually just leave the side panel off because if we do put it on its gonna be a sarcophagus in here like got a GTX 780 FX 8350 and where's all that heat going to go this little fan here although I'm sure it can do a ride is I don't think is equipped enough to handle the power inside this thing so now we've got the build it is running and you're probably wondering what is this fan doing it's actually cooling the vrm I've tested this overclocked it a 4.4 gigahertz pretty mild overclock but this is some of the problems that piledriver faced the 970 boards especially the VRMs got way too hot on a lot of them and they just couldn't handle the FX 8350 s or even the FX 83 20s so go to cotton bud sticking this to the case and that's actually keeping the prm's just below a hundred degrees without it will going up to a hundred and twenty degrees so this is after even just a five minute stress test so looks like we're good to go now we should be out of stress this at 4.4 gigahertz temperature of the CPUs getting to around about sixty degrees which i think is okay for this platform though it is a little bit hot in here it's 29 degrees at the moment ambient are a little bit hot today but we're just gonna finish off copying some files over I also have run a Cinebench score and we're getting close to I think it's 700 points which is actually not bad for this little eight core especially for the money I paid for it single core performance you guys have been requesting that got to around about a hundred points on the single threaded performance so I'm curious to boot up some of the same games we're playing with Westmere X 50 675 and see how it compares with this but first off we'll do it with the GTX 780 and then I'll probably run a comparison for you guys with the 1080 GI so just finished testing the rig last night actually recorded the outro segment but I woke up this morning and watched it back and I look so grumpy and tired I was like no I'm gonna scrap that rerecord the whole thing and basically the FX 8350 it is a decent cpu we saw that in Final Fantasy 15 and also pop G it can get up and play those titles it can do it in practically all the titles we tested here it was a really good experience not just 60fps but a lot of times going over a hundred and so it's not a bad option if you can pick it up for a good price now some of the problems of course is the first of all that 970 chipset I think AMD should have policed this a lot better and that they shouldn't have enabled the 8 cores or a lot of those 9 70s to work with the 8 cores I don't think this board is fit for 24/7 use with that FX 8350 even a stock if I go to sell this thing that I'm probably going to down clock it and under vault it just to make sure it's safe I mean look could you imagine I mean could you imagine that thing in the background without that vrm fan and also that side panel closed in the dead heat of summer yeah you'd have popcorn on your hands anyway another big point to talk about too as I just came off the back of testing that X 56 75 and that thing absolutely flawed it even against the 8700 K it was putting up a really good fight with the GTX 210 atti so if I was going to do a comparison with the FX 8350 I'm thinking I'll put it up against maybe the X 30 470 and overclocked them both maybe to both to 4.4 gigahertz I think that'd be a pretty fair comparison perhaps even giving the FX 8350 a little bit of an edge since it does overclock higher in absolute numbers then the FX 3470 does better guys the FX 8350 it's a pretty decent cpu it's not a great CPU it's not a horrible CPU but I think when you compare it to something like the x58 CPUs it isn't as good and the FX 58 architecture is older and that's always been the problem pre reisen now that rise ins out that's kicking a lot of tail it's definitely bringing a lot of competition but if you do want to go pick up a used FX 8350 system try and get it with a decent cooler and definitely try and get it with a 990 FX motherboard it's got a decent vrm on it and better specs a lot of those 970 motherboards they're just not fit I mean if you don't see a vrm heatsink on a 970 motherboard you want to pair with an 8 core just do me a favor and stay away from that thing automatically but anyway guys hope you enjoyed today's video if you did then be sure to slap that like button let me know in the comments section below what you think of the FX 8350 a lot of people have been asking me to build more AMD pre rising systems but today really shows the reason why yes I only pedal with a GTX 780 but some of those games are on very low settings and the GPU wasn't going anywhere near 100% so with that we can compare that already to the FX 56 75 and see that it was for example in Far Cry primal it was behind in dota 2 as well it was behind where the GPU wasn't getting stressed near 100% - but anyway those games still you got a very enjoyable experience and that's a big argument with the FX 8350 it will get up in a lot of titles and play over to 60fps so of course if you can pick it up for a bargain and you can couple it with something like a GTX 780 like I've done here today then you'll have happy days anyway guys I'll catch you in another tech video very soon peace out for now bye so now we've pulled apart all these parts here and it's actually pretty pat pretty pad saw with that FX 56 75 or X 56 70 set 5 sorry getting this FX terminology screwed up in my head good points on the single threaded performance so I'm curious to boot up some of the same games we're playing with the FX so we had a little problem before with the GTX 780 wasn't booting up so you're probably wondering I had a different graphics card in there before that was just to get everything installed windows updated all the games installed and then I was gonna install this on another computer just to make sure it wasn't the GPU and it wasn't so it's working with the capture card now but that's on the HDMI port so we're gonna try and change over to the display port and see if that works but if that doesn't work then I can still get the video done in the benchmarking done just over the HDMI port so it's not a big deal anyway