Round comes upgrade time again, you got comfortable with your current gaming pc and slipped on whats hot and whats not, so where do you start now on a budget? I found the best CPU and motherboard combination on the market right now that is perfect for over clockers and gamers a like while not breaking the bank in the process.
AMD Gives Gamers Wet Dreams
The word budget is used a lot when referencing custom-built computers or the like, nine out of ten times AMD comes to the rescue (as they have always inevitably done) for people looking to get a custom gaming pc pieced together.
AMD has always appealed to the more cash conscious overclocker, providing rock solid performance in desktop computing applications and excelling in games, intel has natively always been more expensive than AMD from day one, but they are much more targeted to the professional workstation rather than gaming, that does not go to say they have not had their fair share of amazing processors, Just look at the intel core2duo 2500k, it was a truly breathtaking CPU.
A Unclocked Quad Core Wet Dream
AMD have really smashed the budget boundaries this time, the AMD FX 4350 quad-core processor based on the AM3+ socket and clocking in at 4.2ghz (4.3ghz with AMD Overdrive) comes with a fully unlocked multiplier, 4mb of L2 Cache and 8mb of L3 cache, enabling you to achieve some insanely high overclocks for under $130!.
| AMD FX 4350 Black Edition quad-core stats | |
| AMD64 Technology | Yes |
| Simultaneous 32- & 64-bit computing | Yes |
| L1 Cache (Instruction + Data) per core | 128KB (64KB + 64KB) |
| L2 Cache (1MB per core) | 8MB or 6MB or 4MB |
| L3 Cache | 8MB (shared L3) |
| HyperTransport™ Technology | HyperTransport™ Technology up to 4000MT/s full duplex, or up to 16.0GB/s I/O Bandwidth |
| Integrated DDR3 Memory Controller | Yes |
| Memory Controller Width |
128-bit |
| Type of Memory Supported | Up to DDR3 18662 |
| Memory Bandwidth | Up to 21 GB/s dual channel memory bandwidth |
| Total Processor-to-system Bandwidth (HyperTransport plus memory bandwidth) | Up to 37 GB/s |
| Process Technology | 32 nanometer, SOI (silicon-on-insulator) Technology |
| Packaging | AM3+ |
| Thermal Design Power | 220W, 125W, & 95W |
| Manufacturing Sites | GLOBALFOUNDRIES Dresden, Germany |
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AMD’s FX series of processors have always been aimed at the performance conscious gamer or overclocker and this is no exception, they have left no stone unturned and left a majority of us looking to buy a gaming cpu on a budget rushing out to buy one.
Clock for clock, dollar for dollar it’s simply a beast for any gamer or overclocker looking to get a gaming processor on a budget, from an overclocking stand point its got huge potential when paired with the right motherboard, people are hitting 4.7ghz on air and even higher on liquid-cooling