Amd Phenom ii x4 BE 965 or FX 8320

[Baumber]

I am planning on building a desktop with one of these 2 processors. I am on a budget so i really cant afford to pay for a good i5.

The main uses for this computer will be Gaming, microsoft office (word, excel, powerpoint), and just surfing the internet.

The phenom ii x4 BE 965 is 89.99
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=5692033&CatId=4431

The FX 8320 is 164.99
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=4904560&sku=A79-8320

The one that i get will be paired with a nvidia geforce gtx 660 ti, and ill play games like Skyrim, Arma 2, and BF3, so which one would be the best bang for the buck and offer the best performance?

Thanks!

 

[ocmusicjunkie]

Phenom II is a terrible processor.

Making overly dramatic, sweeping statements about a processor that may well be selling the most units of any model currently on the market.... probably not a great way to highlight your credibility on a new forum.

The Phenoms were/are excellent processors. The X4 965 is not going to be some massive bottleneck on a system. I suppose it wouldn't be too great to use at stock 3.4 speeds, but there is a reason AMD specifically released black editions, and the minimum speed anyone should be running with automatic tuning is 3800mhz+.

I would love to know what you mean by "bottleneck everything". What exactly would you perceive the framerate difference to be in the same scene of a game for for a 660 Ti with an i5 vs a 660 Ti with the Phenom 965?

 

[iam2thecrowe]

why not just get an i3 3220? its faster than those amd cpu's for gaming for less $$.

 

[Baumber]

well i am also thinking of OC it andi have never done it before, so i want something easy to OC and a processor that isnt worth a lot of money because if i mess up, then its better to wreck a $90 processor then a $150 processor

 

[viodhawk]

I'm running a 965 BE with a Gigabyte HD 7950 as we speak.
Games I play;
World of tanks
EvE Online
War Thunder
Planetside 2
all on Ultra
also
Skyrim (86 gigs of uber modded goodnesswith ENB, HD 2K, and 4K textures )
I'm overclocked to 3.9Ghz (Hyper 212)
I run Teamspeak and youtube on a seperate monitor while gaming.
When the day comes that I actually NEED to upgrade I'll just slap in a new 12 core or whatever and be done ; unlike the Intel guy who finds himself having to buy a new MOBO to put his new core parked , ball-grid , overpriced , remote killswitch embedded CPU ...