• AMD quad core or six core?
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so im building my own pc and I am wondering if I should get a quad core amd cpu or a six core for gaming? also does amd processors work good with nvidia gpus?
They should work fine, but maybe it depends on models PS: You might get banned [highlight](User was banned for this post ("Backseat moderation" - mahalis))[/highlight]
for what?
[QUOTE=moffe;27071258]for what?[/QUOTE] For "chose-for-me" thread
I need to know what is best optimised for gaming its not a choose for me I just need to know what has the better features for gaming
-snip- Nevermind.
If you're on any sort of a budget, then get a Phenom II X4 955 or a 965, doesn't really matter since the difference in clock speed is minimal. For pure gaming six cores aren't beneficial at the moment. Then again they sort of promised that Crysis 2 will support up to 8 cores, so that tech really isn't too far away. You can upgrade to one of the Phenom II X6 hexa-cores later without changing your motherboard when games start utilizing more than four cores, or if your budget isn't too tight you could get a 1090T right away so you won't have to upgrade in a few years. And AMD processors work with NVIDIA GPUs and AMD GPUs work with Intel CPUs, don't worry. But your question is a bit vague, are you only going to upgrade your CPU only or are you building a completely new desktop, because we could help you with the CPU and motherboard compatibility issues just to make sure stuff will work for you. Different sockets and the such, you know
[QUOTE=moffe;27071292]I need to know what is best optimised for gaming its not a choose for me I just need to know what has the better features for gaming[/QUOTE] Yeah it's not exactly a 'choose-for-me', maybe I'm wrong. I just wanted to warn you. So, on-topic, I think quad-core will be alright. But what kind of gaming are we talking about?
reading some more i missed the question** pocketrocket essentially answered your question, if you can go with a hexacore
[QUOTE=John the Gr8;27071325]Yeah it's not exactly a 'choose-for-me', maybe I'm wrong. I just wanted to warn you. So, on-topic, I think quad-core will be alright. But what kind of gaming are we talking about?[/QUOTE] I have the same question, and mostly Source games. Though i may sometimes play same pretty intense graphical games (Crysis)
well im on a 1427 dollar budget and the pc market in norway is shit a geforce 570 costs 350 dollars in usa and 500 in norway but ill probably buy it anyway
[QUOTE=moffe;27071419]well im on a 1427 dollar budget and the pc market in norway is shit a geforce 570 costs 350 dollars in usa and 500 in norway but ill probably buy it anyway[/QUOTE] Sounds like you won't have problem building a pretty intense rig, so I suggest you go with a Phenom II X6 1090T, although most people would recommend you getting your processor from Intel since i5 and i7 get higher framerates than any Phenom II, because they have a more efficient architecture. Personally I'd still go with the 1090T because of the two extra cores, the FPS is very playable on either platforms.
cant currently afford a 6 core it seems so im sticking with a AMD Phenom II X4 970 Black Edition
[QUOTE=moffe;27071539]cant currently afford a 6 core it seems so im sticking with a AMD Phenom II X4 970 Black Edition[/QUOTE] Get the 955, overclock it the 300MHz or what it is.
[QUOTE=moffe;27071539]cant currently afford a 6 core it seems so im sticking with a AMD Phenom II X4 970 Black Edition[/QUOTE] Interesting, the 1090T is only 50€ or so more expensive than the 965 in Finland, but I suppose the price differential is bigger in Norway?
decided to get the 955 and a zotac geforce gtx 570
Sounds like a very decent and balanced combo. Will you post the rest of your rig, I'm curious. Won't bitch or criticize, just interested :3:
well here it is AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition ASUS M4A89TD Chieftec Nitro Series BPS-550C 550W PSU ATX corsair XMS3 DDR3 1333MHz 6GB CL9 Kit Fractal Design Define R3 Black Pearl estern Digital Caviar® GreenPower™ 1TB Sata ZOTAC GeForce GTX 570 1280MB
Your motherboard has dual channel RAM slots, so you should buy memory sticks in pairs, so either 4GB or 8GB, both in pairs of 2GB sticks. You can use an odd amount of RAM sticks but usually people use even pairs with dual channel just for the principle of having every stick running in dual channel. I don't believe you'll suffer a huge performance hit in gaming if you decide to use the 6GB (when they'll run in single channel mode), most likely it'll be measured in single percents rather than tens. The X58 motherboards used with Intel i7 processors are the only consumer motherboards that take triple channel RAM setups like 3GB, 6GB or 12GB. Just thought I'd let you know. EDIT: Just checked it, running in single channel might result in a performance hit of 1 or 2 fps (overall FPS being over 100fps in the benchmarks), not significant at all. Someone might grin if you mention you have 6GB of RAM in a dual channel motherboard, but that's rather trivial for the overall performance of your computer. EDIT2: Also, make sure you have a 64-bit operating system so you can actually use all that memory :3:
[QUOTE=moffe;27074983]well here it is AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition ASUS M4A89TD Chieftec Nitro Series BPS-550C 550W PSU ATX corsair XMS3 DDR3 1333MHz 6GB CL9 Kit Fractal Design Define R3 Black Pearl estern Digital Caviar® GreenPower™ 1TB Sata ZOTAC GeForce GTX 570 1280MB[/QUOTE] PSU is awful, don't try to power a 570 on that thing get 4GB RAM, anything more in a gaming build is currently pointless change HDD to a Spinpoint F3
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