CPU to choose for my nephews free PC ?

Gripen90 · 3 Apr 2018 at 10:14

I'm making a super light gaming pc for 720p low/medium detail gaming for my 5 year old nephew. I have a GTX 670 2GB, an old Asrock AM3 motherboard (no OC option), 8GB DDR3 1333MHz and I have two CPU's laying around and I'm not sure which would be the better option for gaming now a days ?. The machine just needs to run GTA 5, Overwatch, Fortnite, BF1 at above mentioned settings.
I have these;
Phenom II X4 955 (non Black Edition), 4cores, 3.2GHz.
Phenom II X6 1055T, 6 cores, 2.8GHz (turbo up to 3.3GHz, when 3 cores in use)

Which should I choose ?

wedrum · 3 Apr 2018 at 10:17

HeX · 3 Apr 2018 at 10:19

Deffo X6

~>Dg<~ · 3 Apr 2018 at 10:48

Phenom II X6 1055T

Gripen90 · 3 Apr 2018 at 13:01

I guess the Phenom II X6 it is

thank you for clarifying guys

anthony99 · 3 Apr 2018 at 15:44

i had the phemom 11 x6 1055t untill recently great little budget chip should do well in those games for the little one

mistersprinkles · 3 Apr 2018 at 20:31

Are you seriously asking whether you should use a quad or hex core? I mean obviously more cores is always going to be better. X6 that thing.

synixx · 3 Apr 2018 at 21:53

You need to set standards high when they are young to preserve high standards when they grow up. Do him a favour and get him a 8700K, Quad 1080Ti, 64GB RAM, 144Hz 27" 4K at the bare minimum. For his future man!

(Use the Phenom X6!)

Gripen90 · 4 Apr 2018 at 08:06

mistersprinkles said:
Are you seriously asking whether you should use a quad or hex core? I mean obviously more cores is always going to be better. X6 that thing.

Yea I am seriously asking because it's either 3.2GHz constantly on 4 cores or 2.8GHz constantly on 4 or 6 cores loaded. It is still a 400MHz difference impacting gaming performance, and as you know AMD's cores no matter the number haven't been the strongest when compared to either Quad Core Lynnfields or Nehalem CPU's. :cool:

james_2k · 4 Apr 2018 at 08:07

gta v for a 5 year old.. right

Gripen90 · 4 Apr 2018 at 08:19

james_2k said:
gta v for a 5 year old.. right

Well he plays GTA III, GTA Vice City on PS2. He's not playing for the shooting but for driving cars, flying etc - playing it as a big sandbox...
... and he's turning 6, 28th of april. Hence why I'm making the pc.

ExoMale · 4 Apr 2018 at 12:18

Shouldn’t be playing 18 rated games anyways lol.

Anyways that’s off topic, the x6 simply as it’s 6 core and the upgrade path/top tier from the quad 955, but as you own both it wouldn’t be a problem for you to test both and see which was seems more worthwhile and a general comparison.

Gripen90 · 4 Apr 2018 at 12:24

ExoMale said:
Anyways that’s off topic, the x6 simply as it’s 6 core and the upgrade path/top tier from the quad 955, but as you own both it wouldn’t be a problem for you to test both and see which was seems more worthwhile and a general comparison.

Yea I'm probably going to make quick open test bed and test them in the weekend.

ExoMale · 4 Apr 2018 at 12:28

Gripen90 said:
Yea I'm probably going to make quick open test bed and test them in the weekend.

It certainly be worthwhile because while the 6 core makes the most sense, they are old and don’t know how you stored them and so on, so it’s best to make sure they both run and run well in case one decides to fail.

Gripen90 · 4 Apr 2018 at 13:27

ExoMale said:
It certainly be worthwhile because while the 6 core makes the most sense, they are old and don’t know how you stored them and so on, so it’s best to make sure they both run and run well in case one decides to fail.

I know the X4 955 works since it's running in the system now

The X6 has been kept in original packaging, but I haven't tested it yet.

mistersprinkles · 4 Apr 2018 at 14:57

Gripen90 said:
Well he plays GTA III, GTA Vice City on PS2. He's not playing for the shooting but for driving cars, flying etc - playing it as a big sandbox...
... and he's turning 6, 28th of april. Hence why I'm making the pc.

What's stopping him from shooting a guy in the face then running him over 16 times with a tractor trailer though? I don't think kids should play M rated games.

And I'm sure that even if he just drives around, he runs over a few people "accidentally" now and then.

5punk3monk3y · 4 Apr 2018 at 15:21

Gripen90 said:
Well he plays GTA III, GTA Vice City on PS2. He's not playing for the shooting but for driving cars, flying etc - playing it as a big sandbox...
... and he's turning 6, 28th of april. Hence why I'm making the pc.

/off topic
GTA III and GTA Vice City are vastly different to GTA V on PC. I don't let my 11 year old play that.

However his 7 year old cousin has it on PS4 and xbox one, he also has matching t-shirts and PJ's and regularly watches the movie sausage party with his 12 year old sister who funnily enough regularly watches Deadpool and as she knows I'm a fan when ever she visits us / or we go there talks to me about it constantly which makes me feel very embarrassed / uncomfortable and as a result I now try to keep my kids and myself away from them.

/on topic

Test bed the CPU's is the best way to go

mistersprinkles · 4 Apr 2018 at 15:51

5punk3monk3y said:
/off topic
GTA III and GTA Vice City are vastly different to GTA V on PC. I don't let my 11 year old play that.

However his 7 year old cousin has it on PS4 and xbox one, he also has matching t-shirts and PJ's and regularly watches the movie sausage party with his 12 year old sister who funnily enough regularly watches Deadpool and as she knows I'm a fan when ever she visits us / or we go there talks to me about it constantly which makes me feel very embarrassed / uncomfortable and as a result I now try to keep my kids and myself away from them.

Awkward...
You really should suck it up though. Family is important.

5punk3monk3y · 4 Apr 2018 at 16:53

mistersprinkles said:
Awkward...
You really should suck it up though. Family is important.

Yes 4 hours or so of hearing all the lines from Deadpool repeated when my kids are also present is great fun, guess I should suck it up. Or simply air my opinion to the family and choose not to put myself or my kids in that situation and therefore negate being bombarded with "they've seen it so why can't we" when I get home from my own kids.

Oh and the embarrassment is for them as she clearly has no grasp of any of the humor in Deadpool as it's adult orientated and she simply doesn't grasp it, which is a strange situation when you are being bombarded with lines from it. The best thing was when I learned that they had watched Sausage party a number of times for the reason "it's animated" before the rents watched it after I explained the content of that movie all they did was blame each other as the reason the kids had watched it.

No thanks.

I've never been a big fan of surrounding myself with my Family, choosing to live far enough away that its difficult for anyone to pass and drop in, yet close enough in case of emergencies.

Gripen90 · 5 Apr 2018 at 07:37

mistersprinkles said:
What's stopping him from shooting a guy in the face then running him over 16 times with a tractor trailer though? I don't think kids should play M rated games.

And I'm sure that even if he just drives around, he runs over a few people "accidentally" now and then.

My brother was 7 and I was 14 years old when we played GTA, GTA London. I have never heard of him running over people with his car, and he's 31 today

As for my nephew gaming it's done under supervision and blood is disabled in the games (GTA 5 with No Blood/Damage Visible Mod).
I think what matters is that kids get shown and reminded the difference between fiction and consequence vs fact and consequence, and it's the adults job to balance these things so the children continuously get a realistic perspective between what they play/watch and do in real life.