Best P2 for (overclocked) gaming?

[Hades]

Is the 940 BE worth the extra money? Or should I go AM3/DDR3? I need to buy RAM and mobo anyway.

The 720 BE looks a good buy. Although it only has 3 cores it's larger cache seems good and most games don't use all 4 cores yet.

Or a 920?

 

[Dicehunter]

AMD Phenom II X4 Quad Core 940 Black Edition 3.0GHz, Corsair 4GB DDR2 XMS2 Dominator PC2-8500C5 TwinX and an Asus M3A79-T Deluxe AMD 790FX motherboard, the difference you would pay for DDR3 is really not worth it as the speed difference is not worth the over the top price tag unless your looking for E-Peen or have more money than sense.

 

[Hades]

AMD Phenom II X4 Quad Core 940 Black Edition 3.0GHz, Corsair 4GB DDR2 XMS2 Dominator PC2-8500C5 TwinX and an Asus M3A79-T Deluxe AMD 790FX motherboard, the difference you would pay for DDR3 is really not worth it as the speed difference is not worth the over the top price tag unless your looking for E-Peen or have more money than sense.

Thanks. Is the 940 BE worth it over the 720 BE?

Also 4gb DDR3 1600mhz is only £20 more than 4gb PC8500. At that price difference would DDR3 show any benefit (admittedly the mobo's are a little more expensive too)?

 

[Dicehunter]

940 BE as its clocked higher at stock and has 1 more core, Ive ran a lot of rigs and the DDR3 rigs show little to no performance difference from high end DDR2 rigs in everyday use and in a lot of games.
DDR2 is a prooven platform, until DDR3 becomes mainstream id stick with DDR2.

 

[Hades]

Thanks. My pricing on DDR3 was wrong anyway (found DDR2 much cheaper now so the difference is greater). Looks like I'll probably get a DDR2 system. By the time you add the saving on memory and motherboard it negates the price difference between the 720 BE and the 940 BE. So you effectively get another core for "free".