Hi everybody,I'm interested to buy AMD FX-8120 Bulldozer 8-Core 3.1GHz 16MB Cache 125W AM3+ CPU Black Edition.will it better for gaming???or corei5 will better.Please suggest me.Thanks.
Amd Fx-8120 8-core Processor
it obviously depends on the price for each, also depends on which i5 you would compare it too, you know, there are 4 generations..., if we forget the price point and compare for instance a i5 3350p with the fx 8120 and stock speeds, the i5 is faster in both single thread performance and multiple performance, also draws a lot less power. it would be a lot easier to let us know if your building a completely new pc, a budget price, and indicate if you have any computer parts already or not such as a monitor, keyboard, mouse, etc..
Here's the gaming CPU heirarchy, the quality in each and every respective price variety. I5 2500k/3570k i5 2300, or a used i7-930 or i5-750 if you'll find one. Phenom II x4 / i3-2120 Athlon II x4/x3/ Phenom II x2, used Core2 Quad. Any more high priced, and you are burning cash, any less, and you are buying a used computer. The FX 8120 is roughly an identical to the less expensive Phenom II x4 in gaming since ninety nine% of games are not able to take expertise of all 8 cores. Most games will tax one or 2 cores of the FX while the leisure are sitting there, twiddling thier thumbs, and given that Intel's CPUs and Phenom IIs have rapid character cores, they're the easier alternative. In case you don't OC, an FX 4170 is a fine option. Otherwise, do not bother with FX processors for gaming. To answer your query, the ASRock 970 Extreme3 gives you alot of bang to your $.
I know it sounds crazy but the 3570 is much faster than the 8120 in games and many other things as well. The 4670 is even faster and still faster than the 8320. If comparing in over clocking the 3570k and 4670k are still much faster... Until!!! You talk about things like encoding video where you can have 8 fully utilized cores running at peak non stop. If you where actually running all 8 cores at 100% non stop encoding video you'd probably grab a 6 core sandy e anyways since at that point your computer would be responsible for making you money. For games at the higher end intel is better... I wish it wasn't so but it is so. There just isn't anything for them to do with 8 cores in games now or in the future so it will not be changing anytime in the next several years. Clock speed and architecture on 2-4 cores is going to be king in games for a long time to come. When they say things like oh this new game engine can make use of 8 cores or blah blah they are not talking about maxing out 8 cores so what happens is that really it doesn't matter. Battlefield 3 is the perfect example where a single core with hyperthreading is almost as fast as 6 of those same cores with hyperthreading and 2 cores without hyperthreading is just as fast as 6 cores with hyperthreading. In other words even a game that has an engine that claims it can make use of multiple core tech can't even make more use out of 2 threads on 2 cores cores than it can with 12 threads across 6 cores. This won't be changing anytime soon.
if your fully intention is just gaming you can easily play with a fx 4100
