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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, ...

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 ...

The AMD Wraith cooler cannot be purchased on its own so the pricing depends on which CPU you decide to buy. While it might seem a good idea to offer the cooler to loyal AMD fans wanting the revised ...

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 ...

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Performance Summary: The FX-8350 is the most powerful desktop processor released by AMD to date. The improvements afforded by its updated Piledriver microarchitecture, in addition to significantly ...

The overwhelming majority of hardware enthusiasts invest in third-party CPU coolers with superb thermal dissipation and a wonderful noise to performance ratio. This includes large air coolers like the ...

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 ...

Before giving our impression of the Piledriver FX series, let's rewind for a minute and recap what we had learned up to this point. When the original Bulldozer-based FX chips landed roughly a year ago ...