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Athalon II X4 AM3 or Phenom II X2 560 black edition for games?

tgbyhn10111

tgbyhn10111

tgbyhn10111

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I'm out of touch with hardware be grateful if someone would let me know which of these would be best overall for games

Athalon II X4 AM3 or Phenom II X2 560 black edition?

and is there much difference between 1333mhz memory and 1600mhz merory with these chips?

Thanks

Pete
 
FPS I'd Phenom II as they don't make use of more than 2 cores.
I'd then overclock it :p

1600Mhz will in theory let you overclock further, but it doesn't matter.
At current prices 1600MHz tends to hit the sweetspot so I'd get that!
 
Yeah, gotta agree with that. I've got a phenom II X2 550, which unlocks to X4 B50 and the difference between them when playing BC2 is very noticeable. Depends what you plan on playing then aswell I guess.
 
you will notice a difference with the extra clock speed and slab of L3 cache the Phenom has, there was a good fps gain in COD with the L3 unlocked on my athlon
 
Unless you can get the x4 for around 60quid ( can be one of the lower specs doesn't matter much as they all clock nearly same ) I'd just grab the x3 435 for just over 50quid.

If you're going to spend ¬80 or more on CPU, then squeeze 20 extra and get the 955 really.

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EDIT:

There seems to be an offer at well know etailer for X3 445 for just 56GBP including vat & del !!

Total bargain !
 
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