OCTA core AMD FX-8350 dropped to $100

The cost of the AMD FX-8350 Black Edition has dropped to $100 and at one time was even below this level.

Today the new microarchitecture AMD Ryzen triumphant March to the world: cheap OCTA core processors are available to almost anyone that actively advances the company and on the server segment, where new chips EPYC show excellent results compared with the latest Intel Xeon. But the previous architecture, more precisely, a series of architectures, AMD can be called successful. Yes, “red” turned out to be ahead of Intel in the core count, releasing at the time, eight FX series chips, but the kernel was not quite fair, because each module with two integer arithmetic units have had only one unit of floating-point calculations, which seriously limited the ability of these processors in a number of applications.

However, the model FX-8350 on the basis of the improved version of the Bulldozer architecture Piledriver/Vishera has been quite successful, because even at the time of the official announcement it was only $195 — a little inconceivable given the presence of eight cores. For comparison, the Intel Core i7-3770K (Ivy Bridge, 22 nm) had only 4 physical cores, but cost $294, and appeared a year earlier, the six-core Core i7-3960X demanded expensive LGA 2011 platform and the cost as much as $990. It is not surprising that enthusiasts with a limited budget embraced the AMD FX-8350 is very warm, and because these chips are perfectly dispersed from their base 4 up to 4.7 GHz and even 5 GHz depending on the luck of the buyer and his skills in this area.

Despite the shortcomings described in the relevant review, the processor was so successful, that the demand for it is still. There is a reason to please those who do not want to be limited to four cores and Intel cost AMD FX-8350 Black Edition has dropped to $100 and at one time was even below this level. On the secondary market for these chips and is offered at $90 or less. They are not really suited for gaming, but still provide a sufficiently high level of performance in them, and in such tasks as video encoding and 3D rendering, and does feel great. Given this decline in value is a great budgetary offer for anyone who needs an inexpensive personal computer not only for games.

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