It only took 4 days...

[AMDforME]

...for Newegg to sell out of FX-8350 Visheras. I guess people actually like these from all the reviews and owner reports I read.

Good job AMD !

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...84&Tpk=FX-8350

You can still get an FX-8320 for $40 less and from what I've read these seem to OC just as well as the FX-8350 - at least the first shipments. AMD has advised that they are shipping these by the tens of thousands daily so I doubt Newegg will be out of stock very long.

[Oese]

Who knows how many they ordered for the start. Maybe the resellers were a bit conservative on that side

[AMDforME]

Newegg orders all that they can get of new CPUs because they make extra profit from being one of the first to have them. Typically to get the best price - and Newegg always does, they need to order a minimum of 10,000 CPUs at a time.

It's interesting to see that people who have the Deneb 965 and Thuban 1090/1100T that have upgraded to the FX-8350 are seeing very significant performance increases with no other changes to their systems. There seems to be a lot of happy AMD campers out there.

[Lightman]

Finally a good upgrade for anyone still on Phenom II X(2,3,4,6)!

Good job on Piledriver, now please deliver even better with Steamroller!

[tbone8ty]

Hopefully next order price will be below $200

[Tomasis]

great. i see 8320 one can get faster than 8350. at least in Europe.

[AMDforME]

Pricing for new products depends on competition and demand. Since demand is high I would expect the price to slowly drop down to ~$200 for the FX-8350 but for those feeling lucky the FX-8320 is ~$180 and still OC'ing about the same as the FX-8350 AFAIK from online customer reviews.

[tbone8ty]

Hoping future bios updates will make 5ghz like butter for everyone lol

Not sure if upgrading my 8120 is worth it yet.... Seems like only benefit ill really get is better OC power consumption

Is it worth it to upgrade my 8120? It's running at 4.4 ghz on a havic 140 and even on that temps can see 65c

What do u guys think?

[AMDforME]

What do you want us to tell you???

4.4 GHz. is decent but of course the clockspeed isn't all that is better in Vishera. Reviews that I have read from folks who have upgraded from the FX-8120 was that the FX-8350 was a significant improvement. Now it depends what that person's definition of "significant" is however.

Out of curiousity I just checked and Newegg managed to sell all of their inventory of FX-8150 and 8120 CPUs quickly. So the only AMD 8-core in stock at the moment is the FX-8320. The FX-6300 and 4300 Vishera CPUs are still in stock too.

[tbone8ty]

Newegg must be updating website cause do a search for the 7950 lol


Yah I'm gonna hold off on upgrading to vishera

I'll see what Amd says on Monday if there's any hint of a steamroller Fx then ill wait for that but if not ill get the 8350 when it's on sale for less than <$180 maybe a good Black Friday deal or after holiday sale.

[leo5111]

im seriously debateing whether to get a 8350 or not my fx8120 is at 4.4 on air,so if performance increase is microscopic i may just wait for steamroller or go intel

[imamage]

Newegg orders all that they can get of new CPUs because they make extra profit from being one of the first to have them. Typically to get the best price - and Newegg always does, they need to order a minimum of 10,000 CPUs at a time.

It's interesting to see that people who have the Deneb 965 and Thuban 1090/1100T that have upgraded to the FX-8350 are seeing very significant performance increases with no other changes to their systems. There seems to be a lot of happy AMD campers out there.

I am still holding on with my 1090T underclock to 2.8GHz
my friend said I should grab FX-8350 but I am more interested with FM2 (A85X) platform

[Oese]

The 8320 is available in Germany at below 150 €. Man thats just cheap^^ Prices wont go up after launch so i guess I will grab one soon. Cant decide on 8350 (not available yet, 178 € listed) and 8320 tho... If 8320 OCs same as 8350 I'd go 8320, but there is also the 95W tdp so the APM master mode throttles earlier when OCed and left on (cause someone wants to use turbo maybe...). So hard decision

[Tomasis]

oese, i think it is worth 25 euros difference for picking 8350 : )

for 8320 price is 155 according geizhals. Ignore meinmarkt

[AMDforME]

According to official statements by AMD, Steamroller is a drop in to the AM3+ socket, so everyone with an AM3+ mobo should be able to upgrade in about a year's time if you so desire.

I would not call the difference between Zambezi and Vishera a "microscopic change" however. The results from people who have the Zambezi/Bulldozer CPUs that have upgraded to Vishera/PD are that there is a nice improvement. The bump may please some folks but not be enough for others. If you figure 10-20% improvement over Zambezi/Bulldozer as the many benches show, you'll have a pretty accurate idea of what to expect - before overclocking. Vishera/Piledriver tends to OC a few hundred MHz. higher in many cases than Zambezi/BD. There are plenty of reviews to compare the FX-8150 and FX-8350 CPUs.

[Oese]

10-15 % boost in games indeed is very nice. its the difference between 4ghz and 4,4/4,6. undervolted 4ghz stock FX equals your hot 4,6ghz overclocked bulldozer :O

[PedantOne]

...for Newegg to sell out of FX-8350 Visheras. I guess people actually like these from all the reviews and owner reports I read.

Good job AMD !

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...84&Tpk=FX-8350

You can still get an FX-8320 for $40 less and from what I've read these seem to OC just as well as the FX-8350 - at least the first shipments. AMD has advised that they are shipping these by the tens of thousands daily so I doubt Newegg will be out of stock very long.

it is because, supplies was only small. It is still not possible to buy 8350 in Europe!

[informal]

http://geizhals.at/852989
http://geizhals.at/852342

[Leeghoofd]

Wow what a marketing monsta thread this is.... nice to see people even digging it...

10000 CPUs in 4 days ? or did they order 10000 CPUs and got maybe 1000 and these sold out in under 4 days ?
10-15% improvement in games tested at what res and detail level ?

Marketing at it's best...

[PedantOne]

8350.jpg

no FX-8350 here in germany!

For informal: Artikel ist bestellt! is Pre-order!!!

[informal]

It's possible Newegg got a smallish shipment for launch so no surprise it got sold out so quickly. And games see the largest improvement at the same clock,~13.5% on average and as high as 20% (crysis 2).

[AMDforME]

it is because, supplies was only small. It is still not possible to buy 8350 in Europe!

It's not a "small suppy" per se as other U.S. retailers and e-tailers have the new Vishera CPUs. Sometimes Europe gets the new releases first, sometimes Asia gets them first and sometimes North America gets them first. This time it was North America. People in parts of Europe have reported the FX-8320 to be available so I expect all of Europe should start seeing more supply of the various Vishera CPU models this coming week.

It's possible Newegg got a smallish shipment for launch so no surprise it got sold out so quickly. And games see the largest improvement at the same clock,~13.5% on average and as high as 20% (crysis 2).

I highly doubt that Newegg got a "smallish shipment" when AMD is shipping tens of thousands of these per day and Newegg gets preferential supply based on past sales volume.

[vario]

According to official statements by AMD, Steamroller is a drop in to the AM3+ socket, so everyone with an AM3+ mobo should be able to upgrade in about a year's time if you so desire...

Thats awesome, could you link to it ?
Ive only seen one rumour from a dodgy website which some other sites then copied, not seen any roadmap for am3+ with steamroller in it tho, nor official statement.

[Plywood99]

That would indeed be a surprise if Steamrollers drops into AM3+ boards. Personally I think 9xx chip set is getting a bit long in the tooth and could use a replacement. Wouldn't mind it either if AMD went to just one socket for desktop chips including apu's.

[Manicdan]

i think the cost to rebuild the socket would be a waste at this point

save that money and build a new socket that will last a while cause it uses ddr4 and pcie3 and done right. in about a year i think would be the perfect time to start from scratch and make the next socket really awesome.