AMD FD832EWMHKBOX FX-8320E 8 Core CPU Processor AM3+ 4000Mhz 95W 16MB FD8370EWHKBOX

Freaking fast, stable, and room to grow. I went with the E series over the standard just to save a little heat, and to give my PSU a little room for future GPU swaps. So far, I've tested it with the AMD Overdrive Autotune function, and it was completely stable up to 3.8 ghz base, and continued to function well till 4.5 ghz. I only tested the Autotune, I've ran stock since, and it's done everything I've thrown at it without hesitation (base being 3.3 ghz). Fairly cool too, even with a stock heat-sink. During the autotune, it got up to 140 F, but I haven't gotten anywhere near that since. Solid, cheap, and fast processing.

Awesome performance boost right out of the box for any AM3/AM3+ motherboards that do not support FX 9300 or higher. Great upgrade for AMD Athlon 2-64, Phenom II or FX series processors below the FX-6350. Although it is an 8 core processor, the FX-6350 is slightly better on single thread processing only. Price and value make this processor a no brainer for upgrade purchase. This processor will run most new games without a problem. Overclocking up to 4.0 Ghz does not cause the heat in the processor to rise dramatically, and will run at 4.0 without any issues.

Not a bad CPU, but unless you need the 8 threads for productivity a Pentium G4560 would be a better purchase for $65. It will match or beat the FX-8320E in most games and uses much less power in the process. Plus you would have a viable upgrade path in the future. With the FX that's not an option. The only reason I can see to spend any money at all on an FX-83XX series processor is if you have a quad such as an FX-4100, FX-4130 or FX-4300 and needed to do an upgrade on a tight budget. Even then the FX-8300 is a better buy @ $89.99 here on Amazon. Its the same chip with almost the same clock speed and TDP. If you're building a totally new system, don't go with an FX series processor and an AM3+ motherboard. Its time is over. If you're wanting to stick with AMD and spend as little as possible the Ryzen R5 1400 would be a much better choice to build from scratch with.

I have used both AMD and Intel processors, I don't really prefer one over the other. I just buy whichever one fits my needs and is within my budget. After reading some reviews I decided to buy this on cyber Monday, with the price I just couldn't pass it up. I mostly game and watch Netflix or YouTube, its been a little over two months since I installed this and I must say I have been very satisfied with this processor. Combined with my 7790 this has played all the games a have thrown at it on high settings, some on ultra, I don't really check my fps unless my game starts stuttering so I can't say anything about that.However I should note most games I play have been out for a while like Skyrim, WoW, LOL, Wolfenstein, Diablo III, Mass Effect (1,2,3) and some others.Therefore I can't speculate on newer games, but eh this processor works great for my needs.

As processers go, Its decent for the price. 8 cores, 95 watts, 3.2ghz. it runs smoothly, and is much much faster then my old A4 6300. I got this one insted of the 8320 because my motherboard only supported 95 watt processors (bad choice on my part) and the 8320 is 125 watts. however, I right away overclocked it to 3.6ghz with out an issue, no crashing. My only complaint is that you can NOT get to 4ghz on this with the stock cooler. I can't overclock past 3.7ghz. and honestly, anything above 3.6 gets hot and the fans get so loud they are annoying. I do plan on buying a water cooling kit for it to reduce noise and hopefully allow a little better overclocking. so all in all: Pros: Decent overclocking good speed 8 cores (and really all the other stuff listed allready) best price/performance (that i could find, I bought it when it was only $125) Cons: loud fan under load and when overclocked still is outmatched by most (slightly) higher end i5 processers when it comes to gameing. can't reach 4ghz with stock cooler

I had been considering upgrading from my 4 year old phenomii x6 1055t to a new Ryzen build, but I saw this for 94 bucks with a 40 dollar rebate so I pulled the trigger on this instead and saved myself at least 500 bucks from not having to buy a new mobo and ram as well as cpu. I'm very impressed with this cpu! Combined with my gtx 1060 6gb I can now play all my games on the highest settings no problem. Witcher 3 at 60 fps on high settings with hairworks off! I have this water cooled with a Corsair H60 and I haven't seen it go over 28 degrees yet, even under heavy gaming. Maybe in a year or 2 I'll upgrade to Ryzen build, but for now this cpu breathed new life into my aging system (Along with the GTX 1060 6 gb I just got a few weeks ago that replaced a GTX 660ti). Idle temp is reading 7-11 degrees celsius. I doubt that's all that accurate since it's 20 degrees celsius in this room right now, but safe to say she's running cool, and it's using a lot less electricity too.

I had decided to try the "new" AMD architecture with a quad core FX-4200 series CPU on my last machine with fair results. But now, with 4k editing, the machine was really showing its age. I don't want to spend the money on a new i7 build, plus the new machines really don't want to run W7; they're geared to W10 - I dual boot 7/10, and don't want to give up WMC, which is absent in 10. This new CPU was a relatively inexpensive upgrade the the FX-4000 series, and gives the machine enough umph to make editing reasonable, if not super smooth. The CPU itself comes with the stock AMD cooler, which, while probably inadequate for gaming, seems to do the job for normal graphic tasks. Installation was painless - took longer to move the power supply wires out of the way than swap the CPU, and the OS didn't mind the change one bit.

Ran for a while and now all I can get is BSOD, although it does sometimes actually fire up. I went cheap, and should have known better. I'm still a AMD guy, just know it's better to buy new than used. I changed everything except for the cpu and memory, and the memory was put into a different computer and worked like a champ. Cpu on the other hand, will be replaced in a few days. Will update it I'm wrong, but I don't believe in that I am.