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Time to Upgrade Phenom 965

maklabouhlel

maklabouhlel

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I've used the phenom 965 for three years and it's time to upgrade as I upgrade every 3 years. I had the 4770K in mind but I heard the next generation Intel CPUs will be coming out this year. Is it worth waiting for?
 
What games do you intend to play?? If it something like BF4 or any upcoming Frostbite3 or CryENGINE 3 based games,they will support Mantle with an AMD GCN based graphics card,and it would mean your Phenom II X4 955BE would be relevant for a while longer.
 
Next lot of Intel offerings looks to be absolutely lacklustre, it's currently touted as just a Haswell refresh.

Broadwell's an unknown, if Broadwell does come about, it's unlikely to be ground breaking, I'dd be surprised if it's any better than SB to Ivy.
 
Lol this thread got tidied up :)

Ive asked this question myself before ..... Cant decide what to do myself. Is the 8320 worth going to from my 965be ? Check my sig for mobo details ... it will take the cpu but the oc will be limited is my guess . running @ 4 ghz atm
 
maklabouhlel said:
I've used the phenom 965 for three years and it's time to upgrade as I upgrade every 3 years. I had the 4770K in mind but I heard the next generation Intel CPUs will be coming out this year. Is it worth waiting for?
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Don't wait as the next intel chip will just be a refresh and not much different from what is available now, if you got the upgrade itch just go for it.

TALON1973 said:
Lol this thread got tidied up :)

Ive asked this question myself before ..... Cant decide what to do myself. Is the 8320 worth going to from my 965be ? Check my sig for mobo details ... it will take the cpu but the oc will be limited is my guess . running @ 4 ghz atm
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You should notice a difference going up to a 8320 and i wouldn't worry about the motherboard too much unless you got a chip that needs a lot of volts and your after a big overclock which unless your planning to spend hours benching or running 3d mark chasing every last point it isn't really needed
 
maklabouhlel said:
You're right. The new Intel chips will use DDR4 adding to the expense. DDR4 prices will take time to come down.
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I'm not aware of DDR4 being utilised in anything but the upcoming Haswell-E/X99 chipset initially. That's the enthusiast range of CPUs rather than the mainstream socket which you are referring to. So DDR4 is not a reason not to wait but as others have said, you have plenty of good options now.
 
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