AMD Phenom II x4 965 Black Edition for Gaming?

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Oh, the MoBo is not a minor part. The cheap 970 or 980 chipset ones don't support 125W+ CPUs, so beware on that.

Now, this link says the MoBo you picked does support the 965:

http://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/970%20Extreme4/?cat=CPU

I wonder how far you'll be able to OC it though.

The 990FX includes just full dual PCIe v2 X16 for SLI or FXire, but nothing more, really. If the other features are compelling to you, I'd say spend the extra €10.

Cheers!

EDIT: Typo
 


I amnt planning on SLI or Crossfire anytime soon so should I go with the extreme4?:)
 
Yeah, since it's not such a big difference, might as well get the 990FX based one.

Now, depending on the video card you choose now, that PSU might become too tight on the power for 2 GPUs. So keep that in mind as well.

Cheers!

EDIT: You didn't list the specs for the PSU, can you provide a link?
 

Not a bad deal, actually the 7870 GHZ edition performs as well as the 660 TI for the most part, so its not really a downgrade. I'm looking at getting one myself here to replace my 550 TI.

Yes, the mobo is definitely important. Although I don't know of any 970 or 990 chipsets that don't support 125 watt TDP These are the most modern chipsets for AMD CPUs, so they should all have it. The one I linked you to, shame they don't have it, thats a great overclocking board at a decent price.

The asrock Extreme 4 isn't bad. As far as Crossfire/Sli. Honestly, I wouldn't concern yourself with it too much. Usually say 2 or 3 years from now, its probably going to better just to replace your video card with a single better one. In this case, in 2-3 years the 7870 will be 2 generations old.

But yea, for dual 7870s, you'll probably want a good 700-750 watt PSU.
 


heres the psu!:) http://komplett.ie/site/catalog/itemdetail.aspx?ItemNo=20089002

It comes with two 6pins, and the GPU needs two :) I dont see myself using a Crossfire setup for a few years at least as if i was looking for more gpu power I would upgrade instead of doubling!:) I can get all the parts PLUS an SSD for OS for only 777 with free shipping!:) well that was before you said get the 990FX so it will be more 787!:) Stilll, cheaper than expected so Im delighted :) Ill post a few screenshots in a few minutes of all the parts, dont hate for the terrible quality as its a screenshot off the ipad :)
 
nevermind the screenshots, they'll have to wait until tomorrow!:) i forgot you cant upload pictures from the ipad, fail on my part!:)
 

Yes thats a decent PSU. Good enough for an overclocked Phenom II and an overclocked 7870.

One final word of advice that comes to mind, if you're looking at SSDs, I wouldn't bother with em unless you buy at least a 128GB one. With 64GB ones you lose almost 20GB of space between Windows and NTFS formatting, so that leaves you only 40GB or so left, and a single game can easily take over 10GB these days, so as you can see it gets pretty cramped real fast without better capacity.
 
I've read good feedbacks about phenom, but Phenom is hard to find now. 🙁
No more phenoms in any pc store here in my country. 🙁

 
I would still get either a HD 7870 or 7950 over a 660ti, common trend prevails the 7970 GE has made the 670 and 680 look redundant, more changes made to GCN chips in the 7950/7870 ilk will likely make it a dead swing. Nvidia will have the tessellation rendering crown but marginally and on pure compute rendering the new 7970 has almost doubled the 680's throughput at a much lower cost. GCN was always the more impressive architecture and it will start to shine now that Nvidia have shown their hand.
 
Can anyone tell me the latest price of Phenom ii x4 965 in $.
And about the Phenom ii x4 965 is it a good choice of processor?
 
I just want to know your opinions, what is the best choice to choose:
Phenom ii x4 965
i3-2120
FX-4100

Thank you! :pt1cable: 😀
 


The SSD is solely for the OS, I have a 1tb external hardrive which I will put games/music/movies etc. on so the small space is no problem on the SSD :) Thanks for all your help!! :)
 


From what I have heard I'd say go with the Phenom, and overclock it! The i3 is only dual core I believe so definitely don't go with that, and I've heard SO many bad reviews about the fx4100 :) I was originally going to go with the 4170 on my build but the Phenom, which is so much older and cheaper seemed to do good enough at gaming to suit me! :)
 
Okay, but you do understand that, without installing games on the SSD, you will not really be able to reap the benefits of the speed advantage? Yes, Windows7 will boot up faster, but only programs installed to the SSD will have the faster loading speed.

Up to you, just making you aware of it, you're welcome.
 


Thank you :)
 


Definitely stretch to a 560ti AT LEAST :) It'll play most newish games at a decent fos but you'll need to upgrade eventually, but if you go with the 550 you're gonna want to upgrade really soon when you get it😛 I'd say get the 560ti and then upgrade to SLI eventually if you can, but if it was me I'd just get a better GPU to start with:) Make sure the motherboard has two PCIe (x16) if youre looking for SLI, also make sure the PSU has enough PCIe connections too!:)

Hope I helped :)
 
^ The 550 TI AMP Edition isn't horrible, its not a super great card, but not bad either, AMP editions are OC'ed 100mhz over on the GPU. It performs like stock 6850.

As far as the stock cooler on the Phenom II, its good for 3.6-3.7GHZ of overclocking, I wouldn't go any higher on it. And yes an Antec 520 is fine.

I know, ironic, I'm planning to upgrade my 550 TI and here I am defending it. :kaola:
 


Hahah what card are you planning on upgrading to? What FPS do you get in the games you play?:)
 
I'm looking at a Sapphire 7870GHZ Edition with a 1080p monitor.

As of today, I'm playing games at 1280x1024 on my older VGA monitors. The 550 TI AMP edition is perfectly fine to play at 50+ FPS on almost every game I've come across at that resolution. Crysis 2 on Ultra, all of the COD games on the highest settings, it will easily max WoW even though I didn't really like that game too much. It has some trouble with Skyrim on Ultra, but not on high still playable though..
 
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