Gary1
New Member
The Mobo is quite nice choice, the SB950 is a good choice for OC. The new FX CPU should not be considered. AMD is now going threw that transition INTEL went threw when they redesigned the original Pentium 4 CPU. This iteration of AMD FX is not worth the money. The AMD has just over 2 billion transistors, Intel Core i7-990X has about 1.17 billion transistors. The performance of the FX is not enough to even consider buying one. If you want that MOBO get a Phenom II x6. In my opinion you should consider the LGA 1155 Intel is saying it will be compatible with the new IVY bridge, however AMD said the new FX would be compatible with AM3 and IT IS NOT! If it were me I would go with ASUS,
And Intel i7 2600K
Expensive yes very much, but you get what you pay for.
look at this link if interested in CPU's.
By the way on AMD platforms Gigabyte is a much better choice, ASUS and ASROCK are great competitors of the top 3 manufactures. In my experience with MSI they tend to catch fire when OCing, But you can not leave out foxcon or biostar for the perfect budget build as Foxcon manufactures 90% of Mobos.
And Intel i7 2600K
Expensive yes very much, but you get what you pay for.
look at this link if interested in CPU's.
By the way on AMD platforms Gigabyte is a much better choice, ASUS and ASROCK are great competitors of the top 3 manufactures. In my experience with MSI they tend to catch fire when OCing, But you can not leave out foxcon or biostar for the perfect budget build as Foxcon manufactures 90% of Mobos.
