Help on cpu?

Knunez

Knunez

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Hey guys just today my cousins gave me an early Christmas present of 100$ to help out on my build. EARLY PRESENT FTW

The current CPU that I plan to get is the phenom ii x4 965 BE

But I wanted to spend that extra money I got on a better CPU

Which CPU can I get with this extra money that is Pretty good for gaming.

Here is my current build: http://www.computerforum.com/198964-will-work-help-first-time-computer-build.html#post1660106

yes I updated everything and it is all up to date

THX IN ADVANCE:D
 
If your stll going with the AMD build. The Phenom II 1090. If you could hold off for a month or so Zambezi will be released.
 
StrangleHold said:
If your stll going with the AMD build. The Phenom II 1090. If you could hold off for a month or so Zambezi will be released.
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zambezi is going to cost approximately 300$

To much for what I'm willing to spend

although the 1090 does looks nice

what I'm planning to do is get all the parts together and pay a bit off every month until i completely pay it off

and I save some money with the newegg preferred acount program If I order before august 31'st
 
no, it is 300 for their top of the line 8 core edition, there is a 4 core that will be 190 and i highly doubt any company would release a quad at the same price as their 6-cores without a good performance boost, and there will also be a 6 core i'm guessing for around 240, then the normall 8 core for closer to 290 i'd say, but there is no official prices out, this is just my speculation, but the 190 is the general price speculated for 4 cores. also you could get a phenom ii 955 for the time being and then upgrade to the bulldozer in a few months or whenever.
 
jonnyp11 said:
no, it is 300 for their top of the line 8 core edition, there is a 4 core that will be 190 and i highly doubt any company would release a quad at the same price as their 6-cores without a good performance boost, and there will also be a 6 core i'm guessing for around 240, then the normall 8 core for closer to 290 i'd say, but there is no official prices out, this is just my speculation, but the 190 is the general price speculated for 4 cores. also you could get a phenom ii 955 for the time being and then upgrade to the bulldozer in a few months or whenever.
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I don't plan on buying the bulldoazer until later on when I need to.

If its just going to be released In a few months then that doesn't mean that my cpu won't preform well If I buy the 1090t I probably shouldn't have to worry about buying another CPU for a while
 
also true, but i would like to add if you are only using this for gaming then almost nothing uses more than 4 cores, but if you want the 1090t is still a great cpu.
 
I have a question.

It says that the 1090t runs at 3.2ghz but the 965 runs at 3.4ghz

is the 1090t faster or slower?
 
Knunez said:
I have a question.

It says that the 1090t runs at 3.2ghz but the 965 runs at 3.4ghz

is the 1090t faster or slower?
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They are both unlocked, but in general the 1090 will overclock alittle better. At the (same mhz) they would perform the same unless something is using more then 4 threads.
 
ah then I'd realy be saving my money by going with a quad core.

are there any other AMD quad cores that Run pretty fast that'll be around this price???
 
Knunez said:
ah then I'd realy be saving my money by going with a quad core.

are there any other AMD quad cores that Run pretty fast that'll be around this price???
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Yeah, I would just get a quad. Well, there is the 955 and 965, both clock the same so the 955 is the better deal. Now the 970/975 and 980 are from better yield cores and will clock in general alittle better (couple 100 mhz.) Money wise and performance, the 955 or 970
 
as far as i know, windows can assign tasks to any one core of a six core processor. so four can be loaded down by a game, and a 2-thread video decoder can run as well without interruption. this is of course speculation though, and another member can confirm whether im full of smoke or not.
 
there won't be a difference, in reallity the majority of games only use 2 cores, a percentage use 4, and almost none use more than 4, it should get the same performance out of the 4 and sometimes better, i read somewhere the 4's and 6's use the same part and this can cause a bottleneck in some tasks.
 
i understand games will only use a few cores, but my understanding was programs can access any of the six cores depending on which ones are already under load.
 
Like said, more than 4 cores is overkill for most users, especially for gaming. I just got my 965 BE and I love it, great OC chip. Got mine to 4GHz(haven't really tried to go any higher) without any stability issues what so ever. With my 965 I have no issues running a game, decoding, playing music and more at the same time.

I was in the same boat as you,I was torn between a 4 and 6 core, and all the research I did pointed towards a 4 core being the better choice, unless you're actually utilizing more than 4 cores. Ultimately it came down to me wanting to upgrade down the road and the 965BE was cheap enough to be a filler for me until next year and even then I'll probably just stick with their best 4 core.
 
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