Better Option: AMD FX 4100 or Phenom II X4 960T...

[Magic Carpet]

I'd get the Gigabyte 970 board at a minimum, there has been some frustration with the free GB board (it's just uber-cheap) and the 970 UD3 has the kind of power delivery and such that you want. Well worth the money over the ASUS board, IMHO.

I have that free GB board and a 1045t, it's fine but I wish I had picked up the better board so I could more thoroughly exploit this chip 🙂

You're quite a collector. Saving the world.... again? :biggrin:

 

[blckgrffn]

You're quite a collector. Saving the world.... again? :biggrin:

What can I say, science needs me! 😛

In short, I couldn't think of anything clever that didn't make my signature even more obnoxious. Those are the CPUs that I more or less use full time.

You are welcome to join the TeAm over in the DC sub forum 🙂

I'd also get the GB 970 UD3, if I could do it again, to get another GPU in the mix.

 

[dmoney1980]

this is why I love this forum, thanks again guys!

 

[KingFatty]

This is all you need to know:



In other words if you want to save money and are on a budget get the G630 or the G850 that is on sale at Frys for $79.99. FX-4100, -6100, and -8120 are beat by intels low end in otherwords AMD is not even an option for budget minded consumers.

Look at these benchmarks:

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-fx-pentium-apu-benchmark,3120.html

These Sandybridge pentium Cpus are no joke.

I didn't see the results for the 960T in that link - any idea how it compares against something like the 955 or 1090T, assuming equal clock speeds? Would it make sense to move from an overclocked 955 to a 960T, assuming you get around the equal overclock?

If the 960T is anything like the 1090T, then I'm thinking it doesn't make any sense because the 955 was sometimes ahead, sometimes behind the 1090T depending on which game was used to test the chips.

 

[pelov]

I didn't see the results for the 960T in that link - any idea how it compares against something like the 955 or 1090T, assuming equal clock speeds? Would it make sense to move from an overclocked 955 to a 960T, assuming you get around the equal overclock?

If the 960T is anything like the 1090T, then I'm thinking it doesn't make any sense because the 955 was sometimes ahead, sometimes behind the 1090T depending on which game was used to test the chips.

The only difference would be a slightly better IMC on the 960T because it's a Thuban, assuming both are 4 cores. I don't see a 955>960T as an upgrade unless you've got a buyer waiting for the 955 willing to pay a ~$100 price tag.