Difference between these AMD Phenom II's (Quad and Six Core)

[Marku]

Whats the difference in terms of gaming (Games such as Empire total war, Napoleon TW, Just Cause 2, Stalker series etc)

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CP-267-AM&groupid=701&catid=6&subcat=1328

and

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CP-253-AM

 

[arknor]

barely any difference in any games because most games only use 2-3 cores.
in encoding , rendering etc the 6core will stomp the 4core.

if you wont miss the small price difference between the cpu's then i would buy the 6 core, whilst it is 2.8ghz compred to 3.4ghz the difference really isnt so large.

if a game is only using 2-3 cores then on the 1055t coreboost turns on and the cpu auto overclocks to 3.2ghz.

if your going to overclock the chip yourself then 3.8ghz should be an easy target (u have to turn coreboost off though for manual OC's)

 

[Marku]

thanks for the info

 

[Superjeep4x4]

The flipside is the 965 has a decent chance of easily running out of the box with a quick multi change at 3.8 at stock volts. arknor gave good info though.

Really depends on budget as both will serve ya well. if ya need to divert a few more bucks to another component then that 965 is a no remorse buy really for a little less if ya need to. With a little voltage bump it should hit 4.0 rather easy.

 

[Marine-RX179]

No reason to go Phenom II X4 build over the faster i5 760 build (as CPU and motherboard cost about the same), unless you already got a motherboard that support the Phenom II X4 CPU.

Also Sandybridge is around the corner (launch in January)...it would worth wait and see.

 

[DELETED_83755]

No reason to go Phenom II X4 build over the faster i5 760 build (as CPU and motherboard cost about the same), unless you already got a motherboard that support the Phenom II X4 CPU.

I agree with this, the i5 760 is a good processor to build with if you want to build from scratch right now. It overclocks better and generally performs well too.