I'm still rocking with a FX 8320 from 2011. It's still a 8 core beast. I have mine overclocked at 4.6Ghz. It's a beast for the time it was made and it still haves great performance in games even when most DX11 games only support 4 cores. DX 12 is just around the corner and it will definitely improve hyper threaded performance by a margin.
It's stupid how people buy a AMD processor and don't overclock it at all. These chips are easily overclocked. 4.6Ghz is a easy overclock. Then there's the people that don't know nothing about overclocking or overclock with their stock cooler and manage to fry their cpu. That's where most of AMD's bad reputation comes from... saying that it sucks and it's hot and stuff like that.
Here's my temperatures right now:
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I'm pretty happy with this processor overall. It was on sale at 95$ when i first bought it, it was a good deal. And i'm definitely not going to change/upgrade it any time soon.