Need help so confused

[lostatneverseen]

Ok so at the moment i have a Phenom 2 920 Quad core

Only had it two weeks buti need to give more juice to my radeon 5870, should i upgrade to the AMD 965 Black edition or the AMD X6 Black edition will it be worth the upgrade for my gaming or what do you recoomend, thanks, i would like it to be able to give me some good gaming for anothrrt 2 years, thanks.

i have a radeon 5870 and my mobo is m4n72-e which supports thesse cpus

 

[cmndr_andi]

Have you tried overclocking the CPU?

If you look at this CPU scaling review - even with a 5970 the CPU (at stock speeds) doesn't limit gaming much at all.

In my opinion, it is a waste of money buying a new X4 or X6 - your current chip should be plenty fast enough and should also overclock well.

 

[4T5]

What makes you think you need more CPU power, Explain Please then we can help.