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Even before AMD officially released its Bulldozer-based FX-Series of desktop processors last year, the company was already talking about the follow-on microarchitecture codenamed “Piledriver”. In fact ...

It is just over a year since AMD launched its flagship consumer CPU. Probably known to you as 'Bulldozer' and brought to market under the performance-intimating FX branding, AMD's grounds-up design, ...

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When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. AMD is keenly aware that anyone serious about overclocking immediately chucks the stock cooler ...

Obviously we also had to peek at memory bandwidth performance. The new memory controller works well for AMD's FX series as performance has skyrocketed. We let the motherboard decide what default ...

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Alright, it's time for some pretty pictures. Here you can see the AMD FX 8350 CPU. As big as any other Phenom or Athlon II processor you have seen. AMD FX series CPUs will fit on Socket AM3+, your ...

The new AMD FX-8350 uses the same packaging and socket as previous-generation FX-series processors, based on the Bulldozer microarchitecture. As such, save for some markings atop the chip’s integrated ...

The AMD FX-8350's heritage means that while it can look really impressive in handpicked tests, it cannot tick as many desirable checkboxes as the competing Intel Core i5. AMD realised some time ago ...

AIDA64 demonstrates that AMD hasn't changed anything to improve the memory subsystem of the Piledriver FX processors. Although the FX-8350 had 4% more read bandwidth at its disposal, keep in mind that ...