Will an 8320 hold back any games?

Darren

Darren

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I've been contemplating getting a better video card and was wondering if my processor is going to hold me back at all in gaming. I wouldn't really think so save for the few instances like Arma. For a lot of gaming benches I've seen it seems the 8320 stays pretty well up there with the higher end i5's for GAMING purposes. Other stuff, not so much :P .

8320 still going to be a viable gaming chip for the next couple years?
 
In a short answer yes it will.
The fx 8320 is a good cpu for the money, and still able to play the games for a couple of years, even at stock speed, but my experience is that if you overclock it, it can make a lot of difference in some games.
 
turbobooster said:
In a short answer yes it will.
The fx 8320 is a good cpu for the money, and still able to play the games for a couple of years, even at stock speed, but my experience is that if you overclock it, it can make a lot of difference in some games.
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Yeah I did some testing with overclocking and my motherboard basically gave out around 4.2GHz. Temps were fine but couldn't push it any farther while being stable.
 
4.2ghz is a decent overclock, my experience is that every 100mhz can makes a lot of difference in games with the fx cpu,s.
and if that is your max then I would let it run on 4.2ghz.
 
turbobooster said:
4.2ghz is a decent overclock, my experience is that every 100mhz can makes a lot of difference in games with the fx cpu,s.
and if that is your max then I would let it run on 4.2ghz.
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I'll probably do that when I get to that point. It's not holding me back in anything right now because I frankly can't afford to keep up with modern games. I cringe at spending 20 bucks for a game, let alone 60 for something new.
 
hahaha I now it, but I look on the internet to find games, hahaha.
but if right no you don't have any problems, then leave it at that speed, it will by good enough for playing games with a decent videocard four some good time.
 
Darren, the 8320 is going to be fine for gaming for a few more years yet. I honestly wouldn't worry.
 
I have a buddy that has a stock 8120 with 2 6950s in xfire. He plays Arma 3, BF3, SC2, Titanfall. He doesn't see any issues that would indicate a serious bottleneck. I would think you are alright if you want to upgrade.
 
a lot of games support only 1 thread which the i5's would be a lot better for. a lot support 2 and even 3 threads. that being said, the i5 only falls behind for certain games right now, the only one ive seen is battlefield 4. and even then the single thread performance it offers does add a lot of extra processing power, it almost keeps up with the amd octa cores at even that level.

I think in a year or two amd will offer something that will be much more advanced than the 8320 even in single threaded performance. it has after all been around 2 years since its release hasn't it?
 
I'm not talking so much now as I am in 2 years or so. It games totally fine for me now and honestly even older AMD quad cores with high clock speeds do pretty well in gaming today. I guess my question really isn't answerable since we can't really know what it's going to be like in a few years. I just hope games start utilizing 8 cores soon (which I expect since the new consoles are both 8 core machines).

Yeah single threaded performance in 8320's is pretty meh. :P But games that are single threaded are old enough or not resource heavy enough to really need an Intel chip in most cases.
 
A time goes on games will become more threaded, so the more cores the better. Not talking about 4 or 5 years from now when any CPU architecture will be out dated.
 
Denther said:
Yeah single threaded performance in 8320's is pretty meh. :P But games that are single threaded are old enough or not resource heavy enough to really need an Intel chip in most cases.
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Exactly. Although I'm not a big fan of the FX CPUs, the 8320 is absolutely fine. And don't forget you now have a 7970 which is a strong graphics card, so that should more than make up for any performance lost due to the CPU performance (which is very, very minimal anyway).
 
yea ive bought computers for future proofing in the past and when it comes down to it, it never worked out for me, because even though my old q6600 would still work nowadays it fell so far behind that I wanted to replace it anyways. not to mention the fact that I wanted all sorts of newer things like a solid state disk, usb 3.0, and pcie 3... not to mention my e6300 that I upgraded from wouldn't be that far behind from the q6600 even nowadays

so to respond to your question yes it will work fine. will you be happy with the system as a whole? only time will tell
 
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I guess my point is... buy for performance now you can always change it later. also please excuse my elitist attitude im obsessed with getting 144fps or higher to match my benq 144hz monitor lol

most people are ok with playable performance im all about maximum fps
 
Crossfire is usually a bit dicey on that platform.

My 8350 @ stock and a R9 290 performed within a couple percentage points of most other benchmarks with the same card clocks as other platforms.

It wouldn't be a noticeable difference using a single, more powerful card.
 
Where was crossfire mentioned?

I just bought a 7970 to replace my 7850. That coupled with my 8320 I should be gaming fine for a while now.
 
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