need advice

[Jiggles262]

I was wondering which of these CPU's you would choose as im on a tight budget (using for high gaming and video editing). an honest opinion would be much appreciated.

AMD phenom II x4 960t
AMD phenom II x4 965
AMD FX 6100
AMD phenom II x6 1045t

These are my options (got a budget of £100 and cant go any higher)

Thank you

 

[Steveocee]

As an owner of a 960T i'd recommend that.
I have mine unlocked to 6 cores not OC'd and I find it enough for bf3 and f1 2011

 

[Jiggles262]

im happy with a quad core, was thinking more 960T because of the unlocked multiplier and the option for the possible 2 extra cores (if i need them in the future), and im swapping my HD6770 and my current arctic freezer 7 pro for my friends new HD6850 so i will need a better CPU to stop my athlon bottlenecking and the FX chips have rather mixed reviews.

 

[s4mmy007]

Id say a phenom definately, from what ive seen, they overclock better, provide more power, and are a better all round processor, go for the one with the highest GHz for the money, id suggest the 3.7ghz one, but im not sure if thats over budget or not.

 

[Jiggles262]

Id say a phenom definately, from what ive seen, they overclock better, provide more power, and are a better all round processor, go for the one with the highest GHz for the money, id suggest the 3.7ghz one, but im not sure if thats over budget or not.

i could easily overclock a phenom to 4

 

[Dirtyganker]

I wouldn't go the anything from AMD - buy an Intel Core i3 for 90 quid on socket 1155, it won't be bottlenecked horribly with BF3 or F1 2011. Then save your pennies for an i5 and sell your i3 if you feel you really need to.

Currently you couldn't pay me to use an AMD CPU, they are cheap for a reason.

 

[PiKe]

I wouldn't go the anything from AMD - buy an Intel Core i3 for 90 quid on socket 1155, it won't be bottlenecked horribly with BF3 or F1 2011. Then save your pennies for an i5 and sell your i3 if you feel you really need to.

Currently you couldn't pay me to use an AMD CPU, they are cheap for a reason.

I'll give you £100.

 

[Dirtyganker]

I'll give you £100.

lol I don't need £100 and I'm quite happy with the Core i7-3930K, Core i7-3770K, Core i7-2700K, Core i7-950, Core i5-2550K, Core i5-750 and the Core i3-540 CPUs that I have in my possession. I even have a laptop with an old Core 2 Duo P8800 in it but since I dropped an SSD into it then it has gained a whole new lease of life.

My experience of AMD CPUs has largely been with friends seeing the types of games, etc, that I play and then they go out and buy a system on a budget only to find that never really get the experience they were hoping for.

Nope, I don't want your AMD CPU.

 

[Muel]

As a 965BE owner, I strongly, strongly recommend you stay away from AMD.

The i3-2120 I used to build my Dad's rig was faster in every test I ran, and my CPU is overclocked to 3.8ghz.

 

[Steveocee]

I think we all know the intels perform better but the guy wants to spend £100.
960 in quad should oc very well tbh, plus you may have head room for the 2 extra cores as you stated.

 

[Dirtyganker]

I think we all know the intels perform better but the guy wants to spend £100.
960 in quad should oc very well tbh, plus you may have head room for the 2 extra cores as you stated.

100 quid comfortably buys you a sandybridge i3, inc vat and delivery ... why on earth would you still recommend almost any AMD CPU when you can be on socket 1155 with massive upgrade potential?

Ignore the number of cores on AMD bins as it's irrelevant, as Intel do more than half the cores that AMD use.

Pick almost any AMD solution and whatever your system turns out to be on the day you puchased it will all it will ever be when you decide that it can go in the bin .... which from experience won't be too long.

You have to be mental to go the AMD route, unless you already own an AMD board that was given to you or something. You wondered why AMD just announced a 'profits warning' to financial analysts? I suspect it's because they can't give their crappy CPUs away, alongside the fact that their recent promises of CPU performance didn't materialise, products were/are late, and that only a month after their flagship GPU was released it got creamed by Nvidia cut-down version of Kepler. Not a great time to be an AMD employee and definately not the right time to be choosing AMD as your platform choice.