CrashmanX, on 23 March 2017 - 02:07 PM, said:
That's most unfortunate that I'm gonna have to OC such a CPU that works so incredibly well for other titles. I'm not sure if it's going to be worth the struggles of stability with this thing.We'll see though.
As far as RAM, it's 1666 and no I meant 14GB. I know. It's weird. It's a long story.
The Bulldozer/Piledriver memory controller is not that great, so an odd amount of RAM AND slower RAM will hold that chip back. Not that it's actually any good, AMD distanced itself from it as quickly as they could for a reason. After the initial failure and Piledriver's inability to close any gaps, every FX-series launch was pretty quiet and they moved onto Marketing Ryzen over a year before it actually came out. In every scenario, it was not as good as its Intel counterparts, gaming included. Bulldozer/Piledriver cannot keep up with feeding the high-end GPUs that have recently come out and bottleneck gaming performance as a result.
OCing an FX chip is practically mandatory and honestly not very hard with good cooling. The keyphrase here is 'good cooling', as in AIO or custom loop. Some people will claim amazing feats like 5GhZ on air, but that's some pretty freaking cold air. Those chips are known to blow way past their TDP.
Having said that, turning off Xbox DVR, using core-parking software, and tweaking to the power/performance settings at the OS and GPU driver level will net you some gains. Replacing that 14GB DDR3-1600 with 16GB of DDR3-2133 will get you a couple FPS, too.