SOLVED AMD QUAD CORES VS. 6 CORE

[watcher6342]

i'm debating on buying a new cpu for my comp but my mobo will only handle up to am3, so if i could, i would like some opinions on which is the best for my money. i havnt gamed on this build, but it's not out of the realm of possibility that later i might. which one would be best, including oc if i have to. 95W or 125W. i saw some with 2.8 up to 3.7 ghz. does anyone have an opinion on which would be best? thanks for any help. i will be bumping the ram to 8gb and have many questions for gpu . i have no idea about them. i only went with a 1gb because all i knew was that it was faster than 512. thats the extent of my knowledge of gpu's. any help with that would be helpful too. i want gaming/performance ram, and it doesnt matter which brand. i'm gonna split my 4 gb of ram with my kids so they both have 4 gb. all knowledge and help accepted. thanks

 

[Knufire]

960T is probably the best bang/buck AM3 CPU. It's a 6 core with two cores locked.

RAM, DDR2 is getting expensive now.

 

[johan851]

What will you be using your computer for? Unless you're planning on doing rendering, encoding, or other highly multithreaded workloads, a 6-core processor will be a bit of a waste.

 

[watcher6342]

960T is probably the best bang/buck AM3 CPU. It's a 6 core with two cores locked.

RAM, DDR2 is getting expensive now.

its what the mobo takes, so im stuck with it unless i get a new mobo

 

[watcher6342]

What will you be using your computer for? Unless you're planning on doing rendering, encoding, or other highly multithreaded workloads, a 6-core processor will be a bit of a waste.

i never know what i'll use it for. i just want to upgrade it ,so if i do decide to do something like that, i will be ready. i'm just trying to upgrade my first build without having to re-build. eventually i will have to change the mobo and all else, but for now it should be future proofed somewhat if i bump the cpu, gpu, and ram(ddr2)

 

[watcher6342]

i do like the new bulldozer amd builds. they look nice, i just havnt had a chance to read up on them enough to decide if it would be cost effective to do one for fun. i get bored sometimes.

 

[watcher6342]

960T is probably the best bang/buck AM3 CPU. It's a 6 core with two cores locked.

RAM, DDR2 is getting expensive now.

is this the one you were talking about? AMD Phenom II X4 960T Zosma 3.0GHz Socket AM3 95W Quad-Core Desktop Processor .

 

[watcher6342]

CLOSE THREAD PLEASE

 

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