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What processor will work perfectly with the Radeon HD 6870 that I've bought

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I am building a system and was thinking what processor would work well with the 6870, I want to try the AMD processors and was think whether the X4 965 3.4 ghz quad core. would suit well with that graphic card? Im planning to play most games on max settings e.g MW3 and FIFA 12.

any suggestions guys thanks.
 
purchasing a 965 is not a good idea anyway as an increase in multiplier by +1 on a 955 gives same performance. I would look at sandybridge i5 2500k or the series mentioned above i3 2100

Alternatively wait for bulldozer.
 
skylineboy said:
purchasing a 965 is not a good idea anyway as an increase in multiplier by +1 on a 955 gives same performance. I would look at sandybridge i5 2500k or the series mentioned above i3 2100

Alternatively wait for bulldozer.
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Buying a current AMD processor will be a wasted investment with newer and faster models due soon. You will get much more AMD performance for the same price if you hold fire a month.

If you absolutely must upgrade now, Intel is the only worthwhile option. You can pick up very cheap P67/H67/Z68 mobos, pair them to an i5 2400/2500 processor, and you will have a very fast system that should last a few years and provide easy upgrade paths should you wist to change CPU's later on.

Forget Phenom II.
 
Thats a tad overdramatic people, phenom 2 platform = bulldozer platform.

Bulldozer availability and pricing might not be great in the first days, it might be great. No harm in building the cheapest phenom 2 setup you can buy, maybe a second hand duallie that unlocks or something, and switching out the CPU a couple months later.

Phenom quad cores aren't awful anyway and more than enough for gaming, are they the best, not close, will they get spanked in gaming at your gpu limits over a Bulldozer or i7/i5, not in the slightest, are they stupidly cheap, yup.

If he's desparate, going a cheap AM3/am3+, would leave it easily upgradable to Bulldozer.

You could get a phenom 2 £90 quad core setup to last you a little longer, skip the first incarnation of Bulldozer and move right onto the second version.

Who knows, theres lots of options, an i3 to tide you over in the same way wouldn't be a bad option, due to i3's significant IPC advantage in anything dual threaded it can be way ahead of a Phenom 2, in anything that can use 4 threads a Phenom 2 for the same price spanks an i3, a 2500k is a fantastic chip, but you're moving into a higher price bracket.

Basically GTO, how urgent is it, and how much can you spend, because price is just about the biggest factor in what ends up best.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4083/...core-i7-2600k-i5-2500k-core-i3-2100-tested/17

pretty much highlights it, talking about £90 chips, single threaded, i3, multithreaded Phenom 2 is still pretty much the best option performance wise and generally cheaper mobo's for the same functionality. At £150 you have the 2500k vs a hex core Phenom 2, and here really you'd want to go 2500k most of the time, however a hexcore would give you the am3+ platform and a route to bulldozer chips over the next year or two.

Personally I wouldn't buy till after the bulldozer's are out, it will offer more performance/£ across the AMD range as Phenom 2 prices get cut, Bulldozer is added in and potentially 2500k price cuts if Bulldozer beats it. Right now if you had to buy, its ALL down to what you can afford.
 
drunkenmaster said:
Who knows, theres lots of options, an i3 to tide you over in the same way wouldn't be a bad option, due to i3's significant IPC advantage in anything dual threaded it can be way ahead of a Phenom 2, in anything that can use 4 threads a Phenom 2 for the same price spanks an i3, a 2500k is a fantastic chip, but you're moving into a higher price bracket.
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Not "anything"...games is one of the main example that isn't the case. i3 2100 deliver on par performance as Phenom II X4 at 3.7~3.8GHz in BFBC2. If gaming is the only thing that the user run in 4 threads (no video encoding etc), the i3 2100 is a better choice since it is much lower power consumption, less heat and much better performance in games that use less than 4 cores.

No offense, but I simply don't think most average users/gamers would benefit from the extra cores...at the cost of much slower individual core.
 
If you want to go AMD just buy an AM3+ board and a 955. They can be clocked to 3.8ghz+. Then when Bulldozer is out, wait for some reviews and see if jumping to a Bulldozer chip will provide some extra performance which you feel would be worth it.
 
Hey thanks a lot for the important answers well what is running through my mind is that I will get the phenom 2 x4 for now and when the Bulldozer come I will whether I should upgrade to it just like Orcvader said above. when its out next year.

I am going to but this Asus motherboard which has overclocking capabilities and the AM3+. Will that be compatible with the Bulldozer chip. So that I am going to upgrage the CPU and keep the mobo for either the Bulldozer/i5 2500k. Here is the link(sorry im not sure whether I can post links)
Link taken off lol..
thxs guys.
 
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