AMD FX-8350 Black Edition Vishera 8-Core 4.0GHz (4.2GHz Turbo) Socket AM3+ 125W Desktop Processor FD8350FRHKBOX AMD FX-8350 Black Edition Vishera 8-Core 4.0GHz (4.2GHz Turbo) Socket AM3+ 125W Desktop Processor FD8350FRHKBOX

Pros: Nice, slightly better than average standard heatsink. Nice speed performs well.

Cons: None so far

Other Thoughts: Runs at 25-57 degrees Celsius so far (that's before any games) not sure if I'm going to need to upgrade cooling or not.

Pros: Very fast CPU, and much faster than my Phenom II x4 955. I found that the CPU was my bottleneck for modern gaming. Now the games that were pegging 99% on my old Phenom barely touch 25% on the FX-8350. I also had to tweak some fan settings in bios since it would run max speed without calibrating with the new CPU. This is a great purchase since many have older AM3+ boards to breath some life into.

Cons: I dont think its related but my CCC (amd video driver interface program) wont load anymore. tried reinstalling didnt work. Will try again some day...not worried.

Pros: Boosted the performance of my games greatly.

Got it for $140 and got a free game with it

Cons: Fan gets somewhat loud but nothing unbearable.
(the heatsink that came with it is only the second one I have ever had so I guess you can say am not very experienced when it comes to what is loud or not.)

Other Thoughts: I am not a skilled reviewer so bear with me.

Pros: Very Fast
8 Cores
Cheap!

Cons: None!

Other Thoughts: Got it when it was $120 in a combo, excellent processor! Heatsink is lousy, I plan on upgrading it as soon as I can. Does fine though...

Pros: 8 Core processor works like a charm. For its price it will be a worthwhile investment based on MHZ/$.

Cons: AMD Arthicheture a

Pros: Pros are simple,

8 cores at 4 GHz with the ability to automatically shift up to 4.2 GHz under load (so long as turbo is enabled in the bios depending on the motherboard).

Can be overclocked to 5 GHz (I suggest you know what you're doing and you have at least something comparable to a NZXT Kraken X60 or better for cooling, Found here:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835146028

Cons: Runs hot so you will want an after market cooler, and with the proper amount of thermal paste.

I found the Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO to be a decent price and keep this processor nice and cool even under it's default 4.2 GHz under load overclock settings. Never went over 46 C. with the EVO and the proper amount of thermal paste on board.

If you are going to over clock to anymore than about 4.2/4.3 GHz you will definitely want a water cooling solution of some sort as this thing gets really hot going above 4.3 GHz overclock speed.

Also is a bit power hungry.

Other Thoughts: I've had this processor since June and it handles anything you can throw at it wonderfully.

Many fan boys of benchmarks tout the slight gains that comparable i5's and i7's have over this processor as a reason to not go for it, but in all honesty unless you're doing benchmark tests you will not notice a difference at all and if you do it'll be so slight that it will more than be made up for by the price difference as comparable i5's and i7's are around $330 at any given time and this one is just under $200 and with that extra cash you can take to purchase a better graphic's card which will also more than make up any difference between the processors (at least for gaming) if, however, you do a lot of cpu based rendering or any kind of 4k editing you might get better performance out of a comparable i5/i7, otherwise if you're a gamer/average budget enthusiast then this is the cpu for you.

Pros: Ultra Powerful CPU ... So fast at crunching data such as video data that needs to be converted etc. This CPU can complete a video conversion task in 3:30 minutes that my prior CPU would take 14:00 minutes to complete. I enabled Cool'n Quiet and the CPU idles all 8 cores at 1400Mhz until CPU processing power is needed. I'm Very Very Happy with this CPU in what it can do so quickly. I am just going to avoid prolonged use on the current system until my better motherboard arrives to avoid damaging my CPU.

Cons: No Cons with this CPU, although I found myself having to buy a new motherboard because I found out that although my motherboard Biostar A960D+ states that it supports the FX-8350 125Watt CPU, the VRM's are only rated for 95Watts Max, so I ended up buying a Gigabyte GA-78LMT-USB3 to replace this motherboard as for if the VRM's burn up on the Biostar, unsafe higher voltage source DC can bridge-over through a failed VRM and kill the CPU by over voltage to it. So I am spending an additional $65 to play it safe and not have to worry about the potential of killing my new CPU.

Other Thoughts: Be sure your motherboards VRMs have a heatsink and are rated for 125 Watts or greater, otherwise I'd advise not to install this CPU into that board unless your willing to risk cooking the CPU if you have a VRM failure.

Pros: Lets start off with why someone would purchase an 8 core processor: Heavy computational power for a power user. Multiple --> LARGE PROCESS INTENSIVE <-- applications open and running at once. CAD / AUTODESK / BLENDER / UNITY all running at once. Also my computer is used a a server for about 25 users. These are my needs.

I Upgraded from an AMD 6 core 1090T mostly because I wanted to, not because i needed to. But TLDR, this processor handles everything I can throw at it. My desktop is currently set up as a server as well as my primary machine until I re purpose the 1090T for server applications.

Overclocking (yet another want and not a need) @ 4 ghz native there really is no need to overclock, but I successfully overclocked to 4.7 GHZ stable on air cooling using a Zalman all copper 120MM silent cooler with arctic 5 thermal paste. temps never climbed over 55c on a full 8 core 100% load using prime 95 for 3+ hours as a burn in test. But at this speed, simple YT videos would generate a lot of frame loss. So i down clocked to 4.5 GHZ and everything runs quite smoothly.

Current system specs:
AMD FX 8350 OC to 4.5 GHZ (4.7) TC disabled.
32GB CORSAIR ddr3
GIGABYTE 990FX UD3 MOBO
2x 256gb OCZ3 SSD's in raid zero.
6 TB wd caviar green internal storage / server storage
10 TB external storage with dual ESATA connection.
2x r9290x in crossfire
1080w Gold cert PSU modular.
3x 21.5" 1ms Asus monitors + 50" 3dtv with 3 eyefinity configs.

Rig handles everything I can throw at it for about 900$ less than the equivalent Intel rig.

Got the processor for 139.99 right here on the infamous Newegg.

Cons: None at the moment.

Other Thoughts: I have yet to fully tax this processor and I have tried. at about 75% usage some micro stuttering is noticeable when opening low system resource programs (browser word docs etc) but not an issue for the most part. Good buy, no real need to buy the "highest end" stuff form AMD. all you're getting is a clock speed at that point.

Pros: Upgraded from a Phenom II 970, obvious difference. Prime95 pushes it to about 58C at 4430mhz, just a test, I'll run it at stock speeds, it works just fine at 4000mhz. It idles at around 31C at 1400mhz.Caught it on Black Friday for about $140 with a game coupon.

Cons: None...

Other Thoughts: AMD FX-8350 Black Edition Vishera 8-Core 4.0GHz.
CORSAIR Hydro Series H60 (CWCH60) High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler.
2 x DIAMOND R7240D51GXOC Radeon R7 240 1GB 128-Bit GDDR5.
SILVERSTONE Lascala Series SST-LC13B-E-USB3.0 ATX Media Center / HTPC Case.
GIGABYTE GA-970A-UD3 AM3+ AMD 970 + SB950 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard.
4 x G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model F3-12800CL9D-8GBXL.
1 x ADATA XPG SX900 ASX900S3-256GM-C 2.5" 256GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD).
etc...

Pros: Rawr.

Cons: Isn't free. Doesn't include breakfast. Wife might leave you because it will be become obvious to her that you love this cpu more than her. You won't care.

Other Thoughts: Very cpu. Much process.