AMD Phenom?II X4 965 Black Edition OR overclocked Intel? Core? i7-960?

by admin on Mar.26, 2010, under bio caddy

building a little gamer desktop, just wondering what people would recommend. not sure what i7 would overclock to but just ballpark it. thanks for any help. either way i think im gonna do ati crossfire rather than nvidia sli, if that helps any.

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6 Comments for this entry

taylor lautner
March 26th, 2010 on 4:09 pm
I7-960, is far better then the black edition….. Check reviews. Source(s): Amd suck.
miley cyrus
March 26th, 2010 on 4:09 pm
If anything I suggest getting the i7-920 and overclocking it rather than buying an i7-960, or the Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition because of the same reason.But I would recommend waiting a few months and get one of the hex-core CPUs that Intel or AMD are releasing rather than being another step behind. I hear that the better valued hex-core AMD cpus will be about $290 in price, and should be out by the end of April.
taylor swift
March 26th, 2010 on 4:09 pm
I have always had great over clocking with the AMD. I have the 3.2 ghz black Edition over clocked to 3.6 but when gaming in boost up to 4.0. Make sure you have awesome Cooling with any processor. And use a program to monitor your Temps. I use Everest. over clocking, COOLING IS THE KEY……
miley cyrus
March 26th, 2010 on 4:09 pm
Hey there,I would personally recommend the core – i7 it's much better and has all the extras such as turbo mode etc. however, it's like four times as much as the AMD. I have the AMD 955 black edition and it's fantastic, it sails through pretty much anything. I'd go for the ATI crossfire with 5770 graphics cards or higher. I have 2 x 5770 and it is great through all the games I play at 1920 x 1080 at highest settings. If you can spend more though, I'd go for the 5870.If you got a core i7, you'd probably not even need to overclock it anyway, it'd outperform the AMD as is.Hope this helps,Dan
lady gaga
March 26th, 2010 on 4:09 pm
You're talking about a gaming system, so use either the Core i5-750, or Pentium II X4 955 (C3 revision), then put any additional money above that toward the video cards, not the CPU. So long as you're using any kind of legitimately fast quad core, the video card setup should be your top concern, not the CPU.In other words, for a gaming system, within any kind of real-world budget constraints, buying an expensive high-end Intel CPU amounts to wasting money you should have spent buying better video cards.
taylor lautner
March 26th, 2010 on 4:09 pm
I just built almost the same thing you are describing. I bought a HP 6320y with AMD Phenom 2 X4, 16 Gig DDR3 ram (1333Mhz), ATI Crossfire, 2T SATA HD, Lightscribe dvd, 850 watt power supply, Windows 7 64bit, etc… Not sure what it will overclock to, never needed to overclock. It runs everything with totally maxed out settings perfectly. And I do meen absolutely perfectly. WITHOUT overclocking. So I say stick with AMD and ATI.