Need advice on new PC build

cookiemonstermoa

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I use my computer for gamming and everyday use and I don’t really care about over clocking.
I currently have:
Phenom II x4 965
ASUS M4A79XTD EVO
XFX HD5850
I’m thinking of getting either a FX 9590 or FX 8370, Asus SABERTOOTH 990FX/GEN3 R2.0 and a XFX RADEON R9 290X 1000M 8GB.
First question: Do I really need to use water cool on the 9590? I really do not want to use water cool so I have been leaning towards the 8370.
Second question: Will there be a bottleneck using the above video card and either of the 2 cpu listed above?
Third question: Or should i just get an Intel set up? This comes up manly since AMD has not came out with anything new in a few years and the AM3+ socket is getting old and also wonder if the motherboard companies will even make Windows 10 drivers for the boards when it comes out later this year.
Thanks,
 
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1. The 9590 is a 220w cpu and creates a massive amount of heat and requires either a bigger aio(corsair h110), custom loop, or a big air cooler(noctua d14 or d15). Honestly for the price of the 9590 I wouldn't waste my time, you'd better better of with an Intel i5 for gaming.
2. No bottlenecks with a single card.
3. Go intel.
Also unless you are planning and 2 or 3 cards in crossfire and a 4k display 8gb of vram is a waste.

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FRankly, that CPU is pretty kickass. Newer CPUs aren't that much more powerful, even Intel's have been stuck for years performance-wise.
It might bottleneck the GPU but just keep the CPU you've got and overclock it to 4.0+ Ghz, should work pretty well. Change the CPU when games start suffering from it ;).
 

bignastyid

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1. The 9590 is a 220w cpu and creates a massive amount of heat and requires either a bigger aio(corsair h110), custom loop, or a big air cooler(noctua d14 or d15). Honestly for the price of the 9590 I wouldn't waste my time, you'd better better of with an Intel i5 for gaming.
2. No bottlenecks with a single card.
3. Go intel.
Also unless you are planning and 2 or 3 cards in crossfire and a 4k display 8gb of vram is a waste.
 
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