So i just noticed these two cpus in my local suppliers new inventory and was a little stunned at the price of the 9590 at $1049 (AUD) whereas the 9370 was only 400 yet it appears that the ony difference between the two is the base clock speed. Am i missing something here or has amd lost there minds?
Nah your right, its AMD's version of the TITAN.....first 5GHz CPU OH MA GOD1!!!!!!!. Basically your paying for bragging rights.
AMD has lost their minds. Buy a 8350
its really annoying,
what this means for most people is that now they have binned the 5ghz cpus most 8350's that people buy will be the ones that didnt cut it.
Meaning they wont overclock to 5ghz without leaving acceptable margins of tolerance.
Seems the FX-8350 I purchased about 4 months ago is in that category. I can achieve a 4670 MHz overclock with it but once I bump it up past 4.7 GHz its completely unstable no matter the voltage I throw at it. Taking 2 out of the 4 sticks of RAM out doesn't help either. Thanks AMD.
disable 2 cores and it will probably go to 5GHz :P
it says "$353.34 plus shipping¹"
Can anyone verify a supplier going that low? :S
never mind it conveniently says 'out of stock'. still to high tho..
But I do believe that those chips are much more stable. still doesnt make up for it though...
Nah, not worth it. I've already got it running stable at 4670 MHz and I'm even able to leave the power saving features on. This thing idles at 1868 MHz at 30*C and it's 100% stable.
I think these chips are just to stir up some talk about AMD since they haven't released anything in a while, meanwhile the 700 series and Haswell have been the talk of the town. From what I hear they are special order only and don't have anything to do with the binning of 8350's.
Dont buy it unless you want to shell out another $1000 for a motherboard to support it. Its a 220 watt TDP CPU which means its going to have to be put in a special motherboard (look at the ASUS Sabertooth for example it says 135 TDP max). Also the VRM is going to have to be crazy and imagine the chipset issues... Yea I would just get a 8350 and OC it. BTW the other guy a few post up complaining about OCing his CPU by only 500Mhz... thats a half of a Ghz dude, what are you complaining about? There was several CPUs in the past the people drool over that you couldnt even attempt to OC.
Dont buy it unless you want to shell out another $1000 for a motherboard to support it. Its a 220 watt TDP CPU which means its going to have to be put in a special motherboard (look at the ASUS Sabertooth for example it says 135 TDP max). Also the VRM is going to have to be crazy and imagine the chipset issues... Yea I would just get a 8350 and OC it. BTW the other guy a few post up complaining about OCing his CPU by only 500Mhz... thats a half of a Ghz dude, what are you complaining about? There was several CPUs in the past the people drool over that you couldnt even attempt to OC.
or you could buy a 4770K and OC to 4.6~4.8Ghz on the same cooling solution, use less juice and have more performance
Um, you do realize, an FX-8350 overclocked to 5.0 GHz on 1.54v consumes 220w and the TDP rating on motherboards is just their thermal throttling capability? Any overclocker removes the thermal throttling ability of the CPU if they are trying to go as high as 5 GHz on an FX-8350. Which means the max TDP rating of a motherboard means squat. If I was to leave thermal throttling on my M5A99FX Pro R2.0 it has a maximum throttle TDP of 151w in the bios settings.
Id love to see the benchmarks that prove that. @Gigabuster.
The i7 will destroy the FX,.
Have you ever heard of a VRM? This thing may not suck up 220 watts of electricty, but its defentally more than a standard 8350. Some people cant get past 4.5Ghz on a 8350 using a Crosshair or Sabertooth board, which are already a $200+ board.
nice, i do testing every month and raise my mhz by 100 every time. Right now i'm running stable @ 4.7Ghz with voltage at 1.41V and idles at 1466mhz, i'm raising everything seperately seems to be the best for power saving and performance. you raise the bus didnt you?
What cooling solution are you using to keep it @ 30*C, it's quite nice?
well that's pretty obvious, but the FX will destroy the i7 when it comes to multitasking. In my case for game development, i have Unity, Maya, 3dsMax, Zbrush, and Photoshop running all at the same time. Now lets see i7 pull that off. As well as running Spotify which tends to be a RAM hog, and Steam. Sure i7 is a much more powerful CPU but thats only per core performance. Wait when multi threading becomes more needed, the FX isn't a slouch and will keep up. Steamroller is going to impletement HSA and a lot of little strings that i7 has. plus they're shrinkingthe die by 30% which means more reasonable power consumption.
My FX-8350 overclocks currently @ 4.7Ghz w/ 1.41V, i was able to run 4.4Ghz on stock voltage and have all the power saving features. i7-4770k doesn't scale well when it comes to overclocking, requires more power than needed to produce more the scalable performance gain. Now the 4770k is a monster at that OC, but i don't get why people say that Intel uses less power when it comes to overclock. Mind i probably got a lucky and well built chip.