FX Chips

[dmandn]

Originally Posted by Pemalite

Yep would be the 1045T, got one in another machine of mine.

It clocks better than my old 1090T that I got on release day at a lower voltage. Even on an ancient 780G board.

Thing with the FX and Phenom 2's though is they struggle in some very lightly threaded games like Sins of a Solar Empire and StarCraft with lots of units happening at once.
But games like Battlefield 3 which are heavily multi-threaded scale well, so it depends on the games you play.
Going to make the move to Intel soon, the 3930K looks very tempting and would hopefully fix the performance in lightly threaded scenarios too for me.

Something doesn't sound right with your system, starcraft or starcraft 2 should be playing smooth on max with your system without any issues.

[Nightwolf82]

Originally Posted by dmandn

Ditto, I find the same, but I'm comparing my 8120 to a large number of customer intel's being built, sold and serviced by myself and others where I work.
They fall behind in benchmarks like superPi, etc but are very strong in most real-life usage apps.
Also isn't too bad on power draw and heat at stock but gets very power hungry if overclocked, much more than my phenom II x6 does overclocked. You do have to take into account the extra cores in the 8120 though (for heat and power draw).

So would you recommend getting a 8120?? or should i look elsewhere

[t8y]

owned 8120, x6, x4, x2, and most of the more recent intel lineups.

if it must be amd, hunt down phenomII chips (for however many cores you may need, keep in mind some x2 can unlock extra cores, my 555be could)
FX was rubbish even compared to the CPUs it replaced, let alone anything recent from intel.

if you are open to amd or intel.
intel. for more reasons than i can be bothered listing

[Nightwolf82]

yeah atm im looking at going and getting i5 2500 i was hoping there was enough incentive to stick it out considering every machine ive either bought or built has had an amd at the heart

[Pemalite]

Originally Posted by dmandn

Something doesn't sound right with your system, starcraft or starcraft 2 should be playing smooth on max with your system without any issues.

Not when you have 800+ units on screen in a custom game it isn't, which is when the game becomes incredibly CPU dependent.

[dr_deathy]

Originally Posted by Pemalite

Not when you have 800+ units on screen in a custom game it isn't, which is when the game becomes incredibly CPU dependent.

My 3930k did nothing for me over a i7 920 in SC2.

poorly coded EA games on the other hand, however they are not worth playing.