which cpu

[chaos]

gonna make it simple..building a micro atx system that will be used mostly for encoding(cpu intensive stuff) 4 core or 6 core???
fx-4170 --105.00
fx-6100 --119.00
fx-6300 --139.00
phenom II x6 1045 --120.00
or one of the X4 BE chips
Here's the mobo I got.. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813138345
with 8gig of ram and a corsair h60 for cooling

 

[johan851]

If you're encoding, cores are king. They're all so close in price - I would go with the FX-6300 unless you really need to save $20 on the FX-6100. The 6100 will perform pretty similarly, but you might wish later that you had spent the extra $20 for the faster CPU.

 

[trents]

Hope you're not planning on overclocking any of those CPUs with that motherboard except maybe the FX-4170.

 

[chaos]

Why's that?

 

[trents]

The board doesn't have a very heavy duty power phase. The higher end FX CPUs draw large amounts of power and produce large amounts of heat when overclocked beyond a minimum. Neither does the board have any sinks on the VRMs.

And the Corsair H60 will probably not be adequate to cool a significantly overclocked FX 8 core.

 

[Mandrake4565]

No heatsinks on the VRM's which supply the processor with the appropriate voltage needed.

 

[chaos]

OK think i'll return the biostar when it gets here and go with this board http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128440
Think I'll get the fx-4170 while its on sale..Was just thinking I stll have my system in my sig to do the heavy stuff...

 

[RGone]

OK think i'll return the biostar when it gets here and go with this board http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128440
Think I'll get the fx-4170 while its on sale..Was just thinking I stll have my system in my sig to do the heavy stuff...

GIGABYTE GA-880GM-USB3 AM3+ AMD 880G HDMI USB 3.0 Micro ATX AMD Motherboard << Not a whole lot better for the FX cpus. There were changes made in the specs for 9XX boards and the FX series processors. And you can look at the Asus boards being released in R.2 just as the newer Vishera FX processors hit the market.

They can call an 8XX chipset board ready for AM3+ but that will not make it a true AM3+ board. The socket maybe changed to AM3+ but the rest is not changed over.

I suppose you could try it but if it begins to give problems after a little bit of time, then you will know for sure what the deal is. YMMV. Good luck man.

 

[Mandrake4565]

If it were my money I'd spend the extra $15.00 and get this

 

[RGone]

He says he wants to go with the mATX size mobo.

 

[Mandrake4565]

Oh my bad for not reading the whole thread.

 

[RGone]

VRM heatsinks for more heavy duty usage.

ASUS F2A85-M PRO FM2 AMD A85X (Hudson D4) HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 Micro ATX AMD Motherboard
Win8 Ready, DIP2 W/DIGI + VRM, USB BIOS Flashback

This APU (cpu + video) has 4MB L2 cache where as the cheap ones only have 1MB L2. New Trinity Core like the PileDriver CPUs. Comes with a stock AMD cpu cooler.

AMD A8-5600K Trinity 3.6GHz (3.9GHz Turbo) Socket FM2 100W Quad-Core Desktop APU (CPU + GPU) with DirectX 11 Graphic AMD Radeon HD 7560D AD560KWOHJBOX