CPU change?

just wondering, can I change amd 6350 for an 8350 without changing bios, reinstalling windows or anything? Just a straight swap?

What motherboard do you have?

If the board supports it with the bios you already have then yep it's just a straight swap

Barnacle Potato said:

just wondering, can I change amd 6350 for an 8350 without changing bios, reinstalling windows or anything? Just a straight swap?

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If your motherboard supports the FX 6350 which is a AM3+ CPU then it should be able to take the FX 8350 without a problem!

All depends on if your motherboard supports it (and/or if there is a BIOS rev. that has added support)

As @beers asked, what motherboard make/model are you running and that will get us our answers!

I'm not sure how much you are planning to spend but that is not much of an upgrade. Benchmarks rate it at 15% better on one test and on another hardly any difference. I had a 6300, and ran 8350 performance by overclocking. The chip structure is the same, and with enough cooling can easily be overclocked to 4GHZ. I'd just safely overclock. My system automatically overclocked it to 3.8GHZ from 3.5 seemlessly. The only thing is the 8350 has more overclocking potential and can *theoretically overclock to 5GHZ. Not really worth the price for an upgrade. Even if you use automatic and lame overclocking software and watch your temps, it's very easy to get that 6350 up to 4GHZ. However manual overclocking is by far optimal.