Can the FX-8350 STILL Game in 2023?!

Works fine

I'm running a FX-8300 at 3.6GHz with turbo boost on. Which gives it short bursts of 4.2GHz if needed.
Together with 32Gb RAM. RTX 3060 12Gb 192-bit. SATA SSD for OS (motherboard can't boot M.2) and PCIe M.2 adapter SSD for games.

It's still going strong. Playing Halo Infinite at 1080p with High settings. I get 80-100 FPS on 4 v 4 games and 70-85 on 12 v 12 maps.

Forza 4 at max is over 100 FPS with occasional dips. But minor optimizations remedies that.
I play on my TV which is 60Hz but I clock it to 75Hz in the Nvidia Control panel when gaming.

Got the 8320 O'C a bit goes well in gaming

I'm still running my 8350 from a build I did a decade ago with upgrades here and there. Specs: FX8350, ASRock 990FX Fatal1ty MOBO, 30gb, Crucial SSD, 11TB SATA, RX480 GPU... I have used it for video editing, games, VR videos, plex server with tv tuner and I continue to use it daily. One of these days I'll budget a new build, performance just has suffered enough lol.

Still running mine with windows 8 and the games purchased. I keep the platforms I build for certain games . They don't require the internet to enjoy playing them. Old CD and DCD games are my favorite.

I have a am3+ socket motherboard i am thinking to change my sempron145.what cpu i should get ? I have 6gb of ram.

still a top cpu :D

I built a new system 18 months ago built around a Ryzen 7 5800X and gave my son my FX-8350 system with 16 GB 1600 MHz and a GTX-970.... he hardly ever uses it, unfortunately.

Just barely today upgraded my system. Been running that 8350 for many years at this point. While streaming was possible and honestly wasnt bad, but i mostly play games like civ v that still chugs however sometimes.


Overall after 9 years with that chip i got wayyyy more than my money's worth for it. That paired with my GTX 780 has been great and im still not retiring the build.


However i have a ryzen 7 5700x as of today, and im excited to see if i can stress the shit out of it. Though it probably wont overclock like the 8350. That chip just takes beating after beating

December 2023, and I'm still rolling with the 8370 Black Edition on an Asus Sabertooth 990FX 2.0 board. Built the system in 2014. Handles everything I throw at it, was even running Win11 Insider until they pushed away "unsupported" CPUs. Win10 is fine, Debian 12 rocks on it. Running a Win7 VM in the background whilst watching this video.

The dual GTX960s are the slow parts, but still manage decently in 1080p games. Most of the games I play regularly, like GTA V and WoW, are several years old anyway.

When I got the class-action suit notice over the "not true eight-core CPU" controversy, I chucked the letter in the trash. I've never felt ripped off, and have gotten nearly a decade of value from it.

I use a fx-9570 in my main build and it’s still going strong

Running an Fx-8120 @ 4.0ghz 1.3250v undervolt medium LLC with power save settings on. Still runs most things smooth enough with the 660 ti, if you don't run anything past PS5 era.

I'm not a huge gamer, but my son is. I built a computer back in 2014 with this CPU and i just recently moved it into his room and updated the OS. I've been surprised for what it is still capable of, and bonus for not having to spend any new money for getting him a capable computer.

I have two FX machines. One 8350 on an Asrock 990 fayta1ty 16 gigs of 1866 sniper and rx 480- 8 gig. The other is a 9590 on a M5AFX 990 R2.0 with NZXT loop and 32 gigs of 1600 and Rx6700xt. The 8350 is better for overclocking though. Luck of the draw. I love keeping these old bad ass rigs tip top. Not sure why.
lol All my games run well enough to play. That avx instruction is why I started messing with the FX systems for games. Cheap too.

Between a close a friend and myself, we've been able to scrounge together enough parts to build a computer using the fx8350 and GTX 970. We've been slowly round robinin that computer to our friends to get them into the PC gaming community as their first build.
Obviously, this gets them hooked, and we work out a budget to get them onto a newer platform. It's been a successful endeavor.

When everyone has their own computer, the fx8350 build will be retired and become a plex server. So yes we've been getting plenty of use out of the old girl

I still use the fx 8350 with a r9 380 4gb an 16 gb ram ,i play warzone on low ,rdr2 on high and get pretty good fps 40-60.but i think im gonna build a new pc in the near future 1-2 years later.

Pair it with an AliExpress RX6600M (8x/16 PCIE)
You are welcome!

Some games on ultra

Every desktop in my house is still running on AM3+ architecture. I originally built the machines back when it was still possible to build a decent gaming PC with only $500-$1000. Today just a 'gaming' motherboard costs almost $500 without CPU nor RAM. Anyhow I 'maxed out' all my systems with 32GB DDR3, FX 8300 series 'Vishera' CPUs. The most significant performance boost came from GPU upgrades (the performance increase from PCIE 2.0x to 4.0x is negligible for gaming) and phasing out all HDDs and replacing them with Samsung SSDs. For my main system I got rid of the optical drives altogether (CDs, DVDs, and Blu-ray about to go the way of floppies) and upgraded to a CPU/GPU 2x360 water cooled setup that runs virtually silent compared to the jet engine about to take off that it used to be. I can run every latest game there is on a water cooled Radeon RX 6900 XT (that cost me $1000 on 2021 but now retails at $1,300+ TODAY), even abominations like Forspoken, Clank and Ratchet's Rift apart, Baldur's Gate 3, etc. Otherwise I simply cannot afford the latest shit so I finally gave in and bought the woman a PS5 she wanted cause it's literally magnitudes cheaper than today's 'modest' gaming GPUs; there's a special place reserved in gamers' hell for whomever created crypto gpu mining.

YOU CAN OVERCLOCK THEM AND LOWER THE CPU TEMPS

Just do you guys know, AM4 coolers work with AM3/AM3+! An insane (and cheap!) upgrade for AM3 CPUs is to grab a second hand Wraith Prism cooler off of Ebay or a friend. They are overkill cooling for AM3 and look awesome as well. That's what I did before i made the switch to Ryzen, i threw an AM4 cooler on my Phenom x4 965be and my temps dropped by over 50%, it was crazy! Definitely gave my machine a new lease on life until I made the switch to Ryzen myself. I still use my AM3+ system to this day as a backup PC, visitor LAN gaming rig, an entertainment center media server. The temps hardly even budge from idle to load, never seen anything like it. So yeah, if you have an old AM3 machine throw a modern am4/am5 cooler on it and it will give it a new lease on life!

I am using it with a 970ti, and honestly still rocks! I play Cyberpunk 2077 without too many noticeable issues, and have been very happy with it. I am currently piecing some parts to a new system, but when that's built, I will give this to my little brother, as he will likely still get a few years more use out of it playing Minecraft and Roblox.

I have this in my home pc. Time to upgrade i guess. Did not realize it's been 10 years already.
That said, i can run most older games fine on this, and i can even run flight simulator 40th Anniversary Edition okay ish.
I guess many games depend more on your gpu.

I totally went on a eBay splurge, and bout the same system I had 10+ years ago minus the 7990!
Asus m5 evo
Fx8350
16 gigs ddr3 1600
1tb ssd
And grabbed a rx 5500xt 8gb
I play most any game above 50 fps and higher.

Using the FX8350 but only in a home built NAS server running TrueNAS core.

im still running the 8350 with a 1660 super. runs okay on lower intensity games but when playing warzone 2, bf2042, or assetto corsa on a full server, the cpu reaches 79c in temp and games become unplayable. original thermal paste from 2014, would it make much difference if i reapply paste?

I got me an 8300 with a pre build back in 2015. I let go of it when the Ryzen came out. Never looked back. I just upgraded my rig with an 5600X3D. The 5600X3D would do cartwheels around the 8350!

Still rocking my fx 8350 with a r9 290x 😂 (I’ve been eyeing a few 580 to upgrade)

i use mine for emulation

I'm still gaming pretty comfortably with my fx6300. cant do the most demanding games or setting, and I'm fine with it.

My 8350 lasted me up until 2022. Broke down and got the 5900x.
My r9-fury lasted me until Starfield came out. Albiet barely 😂. Figure I can skip a few generations and by then I'll be too old to know how to use new technology 😂

I'm currently rebuilding my old setup with the fx 8350 on a asus crosshair v formula board with a rx 580 8g and I am hopeful! It was running 2 rx 480 8g but they are long gone!

I always had ram issues with my FX-8350. It did not see all of its ram. I always thought it was the motherboard. Replaced with a Ryzen 7 5800x last yard but did keep my FX-8350 as a backup. I found a really cheap AM3+ motherboard with M.2 capability. When I pulled the CPU from the board, I found out why I was having ram issues. I appeared to have bent pins 10 years ago and had never realized it. Tried to bend the pins back, which I have done before, but one broke. At that point it was either except the loss for the motherboard or buy a replacement CPU. Decided that I would go ahead and get a replacement CPU even though I could likely get a Ryzen 5 2600 for less. Still cheaper than a replacement CPU and motherboard though. This new FX system has 32 GB or ram and is paired with a GTX 1070 and actually runs some games I tested it with pretty well.

I have 3 8350 machines running great! Two of them have asus strix gtx980ti and the third has a msi gtx1660 super. All 3 systems are on Sabertooth 990fx boards, one is a 1.0 and the other two are 2.0. All have NVMe drives with the 1.0 booting UEFI with Clover. Storage is with a M5015 Hardware RAID. No need for upgrades YET. 32GB Kingston HyperX 1866 on 2 sytems, 1600 on the third. Need to know more about it?

It was my computer for over 7 years. Then it was my son's gaming computer. It ran at 4.45ghz, 16gb ram, and GTX 970 Strix. He wasn't really complaining until he tried playing Redfall. Other than that. 1080p gaming with every thing else was just fine. This was one of the best PCs I've ever had. It has served us very well, and will continue to serve my nephew that will be using for university. This system will most likely continue to be used until Win 10 is retired.

Lucas Botkin, is that you? This what you do in your off time?

I have the FX 8300 overclocked to 4.00 Ghz , paired with RX 470, 12 ddr3 1333mhz and I am such a happy, having such a powerful PC.
Resolution is 1366 -768 and I can play all games, especially such demanding as : The Witcher 3, the Forza 5, Wo Long, Assassin's Creed Odyssey , Unity, Origin, the Spider Man .

For me, Yes, the FX 8300 is still enough and that is the Great CPU for gamers, who want to play by any costs.

Yes i'm still with my FX8300 4,5ghz 16 gigs 1866mhz and RX 480. And yes its not a problem for me to play the newest singleplayer games at around 50fps on 1440p and high settings...🙂

The 8 core FX 8350 CPU was really way far too good for its time and AMD knew this. This why AMD released the Ryzen line of CPUs and even with the Ryzen line of CPUs, one needed to move up to the Ryzen 3800X just to match the 8 core performance of the FX 8350. Why is this? The FX 8350 is "REAL" 8 core CPU. Although the FX 8350 use more power than most CPUs at its time of launching, the FX 8350 did have to run 8 real CPU cores. Unlike the Intel CPUs which promoted their Hyper-threading as "REAL" CPUs this was in fact not true as third party tests clearly showed that the i5 2500 could run head to head with the bigger and badder i7 2600 which had an additional 2 MB more cache and 4 additional threads.

This is exactly why computer shops stock on the i5 2500 and i5 2500K were always sold out. People knew after reading the reviews that the i5 2500 line could run head to head with the flagship Intel i7 2600 and i7 2700 for less $$$$.

This same exact situation also happened when AMD released the FX line of CPUs. However, at that same point in time, no software developer really knew how to take full advantage of multi-core CPUs and processing until just recently (after 2020). This is exactly why FX CPUs still command a premium even on the used computer market.

REAL CPU cores > REAL work. Hyper-threads are not real cores thus cannot do any real work whatsoever. Hyper-threads are exactly what they are, they are just extra threads that are designed to bring more information to the CPU (if the CPU is capable and can process the additional information supplied by the extra hyper-thread).

Verry nice work tanks a lot😊AMD❤AMD Love

This is an awful selection of games in your testing suite to the point that it almost seems malicious. CSGO is older than the CPU, the 8350 was literally the recommended spec for witcher 3, DE is a game that is famously easy to run - so much so that a celeron can get close to 200fps, and hogwarts is a last-gen game that runs on APUs that were made a year after the 8350 released.

Really begs the question of what exactly is the point of this video. Of course games that were designed for that part will run reasonably on it, interesting insights are what it cant run for technical or throughput reasons. Why would you waste our time with such a boring thesis? (that's rhetorical, it's SEO bait).

I've had my PC for 10 years now. FX-8350 on a ASUS Sabertooth MB with 32GB of RAM and a R9-290X 4GB. I continue to use the machine for gaming though not so much for newer games (that will likely change once Cities Skylines 2 hits which may force the upgrade on me finally). Has been a fantastic PC which has barely missed a beat. I've looked into upgrading a few times in recent years but not able to justify the upgrade cost as I have been able to still play everything i want to.

My running pretty good i just make a video with 104 105 fps high settings 1080p with fx 8350 and gtx 1070 what is insane

I run a 8350 on a Sabertooth 990fx with a GTX 980 due to financial strain and honestly I'm constantly surprised that it both A, still runs and B, runs fairly recent releases on high. Cyberpunk, COD:MW, Doom, all works perfectly fine for some reason beyond my mortal comprehension.

I just went to a ryzen 7600x from a fx 8350. Total war games were getting slogged real bad even with a 6600xt. But and older game 2018 or before had zero issues.

i really want to get rid of mine and my 1050 Ti :C

Mine has been paired with many GPUs, latest was RX 5700 XT and I got a quite steady 80fps in GTA V with 2560x1080 and full settings. Fallout 4, Dying Light, SnowRunner, Witcher 3 and many others ran with ease too. Recently upgraded to Ryzen 5 setup which I managed to find affordably because the FX-8350 struggled a bit with Fallout 76 and Witcher 3 Next-Gen and I didn't dare trying Dying Light 2 or few others with it.

i use a amd fx-8350 every day it is a good cpu for call of duty blackops cold war

I still use my AMD FX-8350 along with 32GB RAM to this day. I've never had issues in any games.. until Cyberpunk 2077 got released.
I thought my RTX 3060 were the problem but turned out to be the CPU, I was actually shocked. My powerful CPU after 11 years has finally become old

I have two ryzen based systems one is a ryzen 7 3700x and a ryzen 5 5600x but I still use my fx 8350 system more don't ask me why but I still do and what I use it for, it still works great for me. I enjoy using it and playing games on it.