building new PC, emulator CPU question

[Darklynx]

Well with the amd FX8350 (or any of the bulldozer cpus), the cores are not the same as cpus from every other cpu made.

In every other cpu (non bulldozer architecture), there is 1 cores for each module.
bulldozer crams 2 cores into 1 module. This causes them to fight each other basically for the resources.
FX4300 = 4 cores / 2 modules / 4 threads
FX6300 = 6 cores / 3 modules / 6 threads
FX8350 = 8 cores / 4 modules / 8 threads
i3-4130 = 2 cores / 2 modules / 4 threads
I5-4670k = 4 cores / 4 modules / 4 threads
i7 4770k = 4 cores / 4 modules / 8 threads

so a fx8350 may be "8 cores", but it wont perform much better then other cpus having 4 modules. Its like have a super effective version of hyperthreading. Its better then intels implementation of hyperthreading, but no where near what having 1core/module gives you.

so really the FX8350 is a 4 core cpu. (windows 8 actually uses the bulldozer cpus like this. it will read the fx8350 as a 4core/8thread cpu). there is also a patch for windows 7 to do this same exact thing.
Doing that, actually increases the bulldozer cpus by 5-10%!