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Good upgrade for Phenom II x3 725 BE?

j03h4gLund

j03h4gLund

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Was hoping this thing would unlock to 4 cores, however I got one that did not and now this CPU is bottlenecking my gtx460.

Any suggestions to a high end cpu that my asus m4a785-m mobo will handle?
 
just overclock it. 3 cores to 4 isn't going to decrease your bottleneck, but overclocking 3 would. You should be able to get to 3.5ghz at which point your CPU won't be much of a bottleneck.
 
gregoryvg said:
What leads you to believe the Phenom II x3 is bottlenecking your GTX460? Can you describe the symptons?
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Yeah I'm skeptical of this as well. GTX460 isn't all that fast of a card in the first place, it could be that's the bottleneck.

Do the usual decrease-graphics-settings-and-see-if-performance-increases test
 
Can you get a refund or sell the x3? The problem with x3 phenom ii's is that they're all pretty much c2 steppings. To get a c3 for unlocking you have to get something like a 560 be and try to unlock 2 cores which I was able to
 
Buying a new cpu won't give you anything overclocking can't right now, 95%+ of games won't use any more than 3 cores.
 
About the only game that I can think of that will bog a bit with that CPU is the Witcher 2, but then again, it will also bog a bit with a GTX460. I think it's fairly well balanced really. Certainly with a modest OC I'd look at a better GPU before tossing the X3 out.
 
Id like to revive this thread.

Blackfriday is coming up and I want to upgrade my CPU. Id like a few suggestions as we all know blackfriday has some killer deals!

Also, Saints Row 2(PC Port) ran pretty good on medium settings, but on high settings, it was pretty choppy.

BTW - This Phenom II x3 715 BE cpu is currently oclocked to 3.2 on 3cores with roswill cooling/paste + 1 fan on the back of my case. Oclocking further is unstable.

Thanks!
 
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I have a Phenom II X 3 720 and it is bottlenecking my dual GTX 460s. I want to get something new. I am OCd 3 cores to 3.6GHZ, but I need mroe.
 
eternalone said:
Yeah wait for Bulldozer I heard its going to crush Intel.
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He probably means revised bulldozer ..., if AMD even bothers to revise the piece of crap lol.

An x6 black edition is your best option right now (if you don't want to buy a new motherboard), super easy to OC and nVidia cards scale well with additional cores due to the CPU overhead nVidia drivers impose. I don't see an x6 having an issue with a dual 460's, but I've not looked into any higher speced crossfire configs though.
 
BD231 said:
He probably means revised bulldozer ..., if AMD even bothers to revise the piece of crap lol.

An x6 black edition is your best option right now (if you don't want to buy a new motherboard), super easy to OC and nVidia cards scale well with additional cores due to the CPU overhead nVidia drivers impose. I don't see an x6 having an issue with a dual 460's, but I've not looked into any higher speced crossfire configs though.
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he as in jaydee? his comment was made several months before BD was even released..
 
So I'm looking at the 1090T and hoping to pick one of those up, but if I had to choose either this or a new SSD HD, which would I benefit from the most for framerates in games?

My current HD is a 320gb 7200 RPM that came out of an E-Machines.

Thanks
 
I'm honestly not sure the performance difference between a 5770 and 460, but I see absolutely no difference in games on my Phenom 965 between 3.2Ghz and 4.0Ghz for gaming with my 5770. I highly doubt another Phenom II to replace a Phenom II X3 will make much difference for gaming. Sure it'll overclock higher, but it won't be a big performance difference. Personally I would save for an I5 2500/mobo combination.
 
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