Unlocking and overclocking a phenom ll chip

[Marmaduke80]

Heya, I'm new!!! Hows it going?? (=


Going back say 8-10 years ago my life was based around desktops/overclocking so I'm not a total noob at this but it has been a very long time since I dabbled in this.

I wanna build myself a decent Gaming PC for a extremely small budget and after much research it looks like a Phenom chip is the way to go. (Correct me if I am wrong here)

I'm not sure what chip to get, I would like the 6 core ones but it depends on price/Ebay.

Say if I get one of the quad core chips and then unlock it to 6 core, would AMD Turbo boost still work?





My limit is £75 and I was very lucky to win a decent board for £18 delivered (Gigabyte MA770-UD3)

I have an old case but gota be careful that the CPU cooler would fit.

In terms of GPU, I probs forget about that till I can save up some more money. Still though right now I'm clueless about what GPU to get, any suggestions would be nice.

Thanks heaps,

Marmadukes

 

[Jumper118]

phenom ii in 2017? lol

ok first of all you are going to need one that unlocks. a 960t should unlock, whereas no 965 be do.

you need a gpu as phenom doesnt have a gpu. if £75 is the budget for a cpu, i would say you can get a phenom ii for ~£40 maybe less. As for a gpu to pair with it, a gtx670/660ti or hd7950/r9 280 should be about £50 and are fine at 1080p with mediumish settings. the amd cards have held up better performance wise and have 3gb of vram.