I'm currently considering going from my dual core 550BE to quad. I just installed a new graphics card, HD5850, and someone said to me:
There's five phenom 2 x4 chips to choose from. I'm considering the second one on the list, the 955 black edition, as it's quite affordable. If I overclock it to say 3.5Ghz, will that be good enough to see a big difference over my current cpu in terms of gaming fps particularly, and not bottleneck the gpu?
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/productlist.php?groupid=701&catid=6&subid=1943
from own experience i would say you need a much better cpu if you like to play games on Pc,a quad core with minimum of 3.5ghz x 4 .
i used to have my Q6600 clocked @ 3.6ghz but since the OC wasn't stable i had to lower it down to 3.2ghz & because i did this i lost around 10fps on some cpu intensive games.
There's five phenom 2 x4 chips to choose from. I'm considering the second one on the list, the 955 black edition, as it's quite affordable. If I overclock it to say 3.5Ghz, will that be good enough to see a big difference over my current cpu in terms of gaming fps particularly, and not bottleneck the gpu?
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/productlist.php?groupid=701&catid=6&subid=1943