Phenom II x4 960t 3.2ghz + GTX 650 ti -- bottleneck ?

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Hi, I'm gonna get tomorrow from a friend this Phenom x4 (not sure if 3.2 Mhz or 3.0 tho) and I wanna know if this build with my GTX and 4gb of ram would be ok to play some games (I've been running stuff with my dual core lately). I wanna know too if would be worth OC the Phenom to avoid a bottleneck. I mainly wanna play not so new stuff, like Tales of Berseria, Mass Effect 3, Tree of Savior, Diablo 3, Civilization 5/6. I was hoping to maybe play Mass effect Andromeda and Dark Souls III on minimum, but that's about it.

Add info: the Phenom is 5 years old, and the power source is 500w.
 
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I'd take 6GB RAM @ single channel over 4GB @ dual channel... as long as they play nice together. 4GB RAM is pretty much the ultimate bare minimum today. Doesn't leave much room for having anything open besides the game. And part of that system RAM is going to be set aside for a frame buffer based on the amount of VRAM that gfx card has. With 4GB system RAM, you'll be waiting as memory pages are swapped in and out of virtual memory (the HDD).

The performance loss between single channel and dual channel is very minor.
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Thanks for the answer! My res is the same as that guy 1920x1080, glad to know it will work fine.
Just for the sake of asking, would you know if its better than I run 1 ram of 4b + 1 ram of 2gb(total 6), or 2 ram of 2gb? (total 4 but dual chanell)

 
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I'd take 6GB RAM @ single channel over 4GB @ dual channel... as long as they play nice together. 4GB RAM is pretty much the ultimate bare minimum today. Doesn't leave much room for having anything open besides the game. And part of that system RAM is going to be set aside for a frame buffer based on the amount of VRAM that gfx card has. With 4GB system RAM, you'll be waiting as memory pages are swapped in and out of virtual memory (the HDD).

The performance loss between single channel and dual channel is very minor.
 
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Thanks a lot for the quick answers! I'm going to try and activate the turbo mode I saw the PhenomII has and see how it helps out the pc tomorrow when I put all the parts together. Again, thanks for clarifying!

 
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