And I thought I was the only one with the FX bottleneck lol.
Single core performance is what you want for gaming because 99% of all games only use 1 or 2 cores. The AMD FX chips have shit single core performance so they are shit for gaming. Hell a 45 watt Intel i7-3720QM quad core 2.60 GHz 3.60 GHz @ max turbo speed, Laptop CPU smokes the AMD FX chips in single core performance for fucks sake.
My PC has a FX 8320 and the PC that I built for mom has a FX 8350.
I had my 3.5ghz FX 8320 Overclocked to 5ghz and it helps alot but it was running a little warm in the summer months. I had it stable @ 5.3ghz but it was running really Hot. Max Temps on the FX chips is 61.1°C and I was easily hitting that benchmarking.
I'm currently running it at this particular CPUs sweet spot of 4.7ghz. My core temps never go above 48c while gaming and up to 54c @ 100% usage while benchmarking. Thanks to a Corsair H115i with 4 fans in a push pull configuration.
My next build will be with a $350 i7 8700k. Prices are dropping on them quite a bit since the i9s came out. If I ever win the lottery I'm going to build a new PC around an i9. Possibly an i9 9900k.
I'm tired of the whole AMD CPU bottleneck thing that's always hung over there heads. I've always run AMD CPUs because they are what I could afford. Price vs performance has always weighed on my PC builds. With the price differences between 2 comparable CPUs, a Ryzen 7 2700x and an intel i7 8700k only being $40-$50 I'm going with Intel this time. The i7 8700k is also slightly faster than a Ryzen 7 2700x.