Upgrading from an AMD Phenom II x4

[bobochez]

By the title you can tell, I am upgrading my processor form an AMD Phenom II x4 processor and I'm willing to spend up to $200 for it. I will mainly be using the computer for gaming. I would like to stick with AMD, but outside of that I have no preferences. I will be buying this processor in a week. Thanks in advance!
What I'm on right now: http://www.amazon.com/AMD-Phenom-Processor-Black-Socket/dp/B0056D5AMY/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1329092360&sr=1-1

 

[bobochez]

nope. just prevents you from changing motherboards.

looks like with that motherboard you should be able to see if you can unlock that x4 into an x6 cpu, i am not familiar with as rock bois.

Ok. I went forum trolling and people were expressing concern about using an OEM mobo to overclock.

 

[wr6133]

The 960T (or at least mine) can easily make 4ghz as a quad core and unlocked as a 6 core still OC's well (see my sig for what i currently run at). I found i can OC further as a quad though. Maybe you can higher with a Deneb but would the small amount more you get actually show any real world raise in performance that justifies the spend? In my opinion probably not.

The OEM thing doesnt matter at all to OC'ing.

 

[Houndsteeth]

Overclock. It's not hard, just takes time. What's the worst that could happen? You have to buy a new CPU? You're already planning on doing just that.

Out of the box, I overclocked my nephew's 960T to 3.6 Ghz and ran memtest and SuperPi all night long. Passed with flying colors. I could have bumped it up more, but for what my nephew needs, 3.6 was more than fast enough.

You can easily take a Zosma to 4+ Ghz at stock voltage. Just make sure you test for stability.

 

[vitornob]

You really SHOULDN'T do this upgrade. It would more like a sidegrade.. basically spending money for "same performance"
Just OC it and spend the money somewhere else.

 

[bobochez]

You really SHOULDN'T do this upgrade. It would more like a sidegrade.. basically spending money for "same performance"
Just OC it and spend the money somewhere else.

Ok. If I overclock it to 3.4 ghz would it bottleneck a 6850?

 

[esrever]

its not bottlenecking now.

 

[davcon]

I agree with some of the other posters = no point changing your current cpu.
Unlock it or overclock it.
The 960T unlocks to a X6 1065T.

 

[bobochez]

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[Mousemonkey]

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