Good afternoon. I've got an Asus M2N-E Motherboard and an AMD Athlon 64 X2 5600+ (Brisbane, 65W) CPU with 4GB of OCZ PC2-6400 Memory (1GB x 4). I've considered picking up the fastest cpu available for this board, the Phenom X4 9950 BE (125w) for $130 from newegg. Without oc'ing, I'll be losing 300MHz each on the first 2 cores (in comparison to my current 2.9GHz dual core), but gaining an additional 2 cores in the process. Does this sound like a good idea for the money?
The alternative in my mind is to drop $170-$200 on an AM3 board, $200 on a Phenom II X4 955 BE, $50 on a Dark Knight fan/heatsink and $100-$120 for 4GB of PC2-8500 (1066) memory to replace my existing setup.
That is a hell of alot of bucks ($500 or so) to be dropping just to gain a couple extra cores, lol. I'm trying to save money, but I want the most bang for the buck as well with room to grow if not cost prohibitive. Any suggestions?
-- MaSoP
NOTE: My current gpu is an x1950 pro 256mb pcie dx9 card and is outdated after only 2 years of ownership. I will be upgrading that as well to either a 4870 1gb or 4890 1gb.
The alternative in my mind is to drop $170-$200 on an AM3 board, $200 on a Phenom II X4 955 BE, $50 on a Dark Knight fan/heatsink and $100-$120 for 4GB of PC2-8500 (1066) memory to replace my existing setup.
That is a hell of alot of bucks ($500 or so) to be dropping just to gain a couple extra cores, lol. I'm trying to save money, but I want the most bang for the buck as well with room to grow if not cost prohibitive. Any suggestions?
-- MaSoP
NOTE: My current gpu is an x1950 pro 256mb pcie dx9 card and is outdated after only 2 years of ownership. I will be upgrading that as well to either a 4870 1gb or 4890 1gb.