I have a 8350 and it has been a work of love for me.
Asus Sabertooth 990fx
Cpu at 4.7ish
Gskill 2133 running at 2500ish 10/12/11
Northbridge & Hypertransport at 2800ish
Nvidia 3070
SSD
All hooked up to a 7.1 surround Denon receiver and speakers with a 55 inch OLED LG tv.
I think I do, but it’s in the pile (s’cuse the pun 
) of retired PC parts somewhere. No GPU, I almost always used the onboard graphics as I’m not a “gamer” (whatever that entails 
) or at best a low-power single-slot nVidia card (GT210, later GT710, I may even have those still around somewhere) as nVidia at the time had the best Linux support.
Currently running a R5 4600G. Still no GPU though
I passed my FX-8120 and GTX650 to some kid after many years of using it 24/7 as a VMWare host. AFAIK it’s still going strong.
Well if anything ever happens to mine I will let you know lol
Started in the fx series with a 8120 but fell in love with the 8350 even till this day
I had NZXT Apollo acrylic side panel case lined up for it, but I decided against it. I already have a hoarding problem. It was awesome for sure.
Currently mine is one of the fastest ones out there without extreme methods. Also used Ntlite to clean out the OS to improve it even more. Planning on getting a nvme adapter installed so I can go to that kind of drive instead of SATA sdd.
Still have a hyper 212 cooler on it and in the future a be quiet will go in there.
I replaced my fathers old 8350 system about 6 ~ 8 months ago with a Ryzen 5800X machine and now he is ALL SSD’s for storage.
Still have that old CPU and Mobo lying around in the mobo box in storage.
I probably will eventually upgrade all new stuff(except the new stuff I already use) but till then piling on and always learning new ways to make things a little better
Yes, my PS4. (Insert Trollface song here.)
I did briefly consider buying some a couple years ago as a hyper-budget gaming build for my kids, like getting one of the early AM4 APUs for future upgrade path, but since it was specifically for gaming it was cheaper and more performant to do a third-gen Intel build, which is wild to think about.
Haha PS4
Which one…3700 series?
Im not sure if I still own one of not. I think I threw it away at some point when I was cleaning last year but it might still be in a box somewhere in my computer junk room.
I ran a Sabertooth 990FX too, my first Piledriver was a dud CPU that couldn’t OC. Topped out at 4.4-4.5GHz. I got rid of it and my second Piledriver turned out to be a golden sample. 5.3GHz Prime95 stable on a Corsair AIO cooler and capable of POSTing all the way up at 6.2GHz. Was fun, but it sucked a lot of power and still just wasnt very good. Not enough multithreaded software back then.
Northbridge and ram timings/speed really opens up the beast
My original gaming PC was an 8120 on a 970 Extreme4 running 4ghz at 1.3v since day one. I just recently rebuilt it with two HD6870s to match the original Crossfire setup.
I also just picked up the venerable 990FX Sabertooth, but it only came with an 8150 so I’m on the lookout for a well priced 8350 to pair.
8350 and a Asus Sabertooth are probably the best you can get for the combo. Let me know if you need any help in the bios since I have learned everything I could in it!
Absolutely, I’m definitely looking forward to tuning the snot out of it!
tbh it was the best chip amd ever produced, as it forced them to rethink there whole game when it tanked.
the bulldozer scheduler was beyond terrible to the point you would often have to tell it specifically which cores or how many cores to use for a game.
gtav for instance.
performance absolutely tanked till you set the affinity to 1 cluster core 
then it played as well as any.
but still what a pain in the ass.
so yeah im grateful for everyone that used them, came to tom’s hardware and sites like it to moan about em, for amd for taking notice and changing there game.
as for using one… paired with that gpu…
it wont matter how fast you run the cpu it doesnt have the bandwidth to keep up (i think it was somewhere in the region of 10GB/s).
so is permanently bottlenecked as the 3070 pushes in excess of 14GB/s.
thats nearly 30% gpu wasted.
doesnt matter what you do either, you could oc the nutz off the board and run the gpu at 8k, the end result might be a 29% bottleneck… so no thats not a good pairing…
at the very most you want a 7800hd gcn 1 card, anything newer and more powerful will choke.
This isn’t a thread of bashing my work of love by peeing on it because it’s older.
Also I know it doesn’t matter how much I overclock my cpu,ram whatever my new parts after this one gives up go directly into another build. I enjoy the system and that is what counts
It does everything for me 4k gaming at 60 fps, no issues as others have and I don’t need much for my movie/tv watching on the system. Isn’t that what matters?
Yeah, it really was AMD’s Pentium 4, wasn’t it? There’s definitely no chance Ryzen would have happened like it did if it hadn’t been for years of being stuck in that design.
The big change happened after Lisa Su took over I find. She steered the company in the right way I believe