Best for value Gaming processor?

Hi there I am looking to build my self new gaming PC and I am not shore to go for Intel or AMD processors. Just to let you know the graphics card I want to go for is new HD6870 from ATI. Can you give me any advice?
Kind regards.
Zak.

Are you going to overclock? If you are, I think the i7 870 or 875k is pretty good. If you want X58 motherboard, then I'd suggest the 920 and overclock it. The AMD Phenom II X6 is a 6 core processor, and it is fairly cheap, but I don't know too much about it. I've watch several videos and read reviews of HD6870, they say that this card is suppose to replace the current HD5770 or 5830. If you are looking for a high end gaming graphics card, I'd say you wait for the 69xx series to come out, or you could purchase one of the 58xx or even 5970. Just so you know, if you are going to overclock, purchase a better cooling system for the CPU. The stock fan sucks, and it is going to get you no where for overclocking.

This should help:

http://www.tomshardware.com/review [...] ,2772.html

http://www.tomshardware.com/review [...] 772-6.html

Its all down to budget I wouldn't think an AMD Phenom x 4 955BE would bottle neck the card and AMD motherboards are much better value. An intel 750/760 would give you a bit more performance, I would pay more than the 760 though as you would get little or no performance advantage for gaming unless you are looking to add a second 6870 later in which case the intel I7 930/950 may be a better option. If your budget is tighter you could consider Athlon x3 or x4 processors as new games are much more GPU rather than CPU intensive.

^You could most likely sit a 445 in your board Notsonoob, and push that 5770 to 950/1300, budget boost
same advice to Op, triplecore and a 5770 upwards, cheap good gaming rigs with a possibility of a quadcore with unlock if your lucky
Moto

@moto, 445? I was looking at a 740 Phenom II because of the L3 cache. http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/83?vs=97 this benchmark makes me think otherwise. I have the cash to upgrade but is 1 more core really worth it? Unlocking seems to be fairly common though. I have been looking at this hot thing for a while http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6819103699 i have a aftermarket CPU cooler so i will just move it all over.

Im looking for under $100 maybe the poster is too but that CPU that i listed is OEM so its a lil cheaper and at 3.0ghz thats a quick 3 core. AND its black edition which means that OCing is as easy as turning up the multiplier till your PC doesnt boot & or isnt stable.

Eh, i think i might just try my luck and unlock the 4th core. Someone on Newegg said they unlocked with EXACLY the same setup i have, i know its more dependent on what batch you get but atleast they had the same stuff. I already have my own "HSF" if you mean heatsink+fan, its some Rosewill copper base thing, not half bad for 15 bucks keeps my stuff cool.

A 1055 would be future proof OCed though :3

Thread-jacked lol...

Okay, maybe "nerd appeal" is more appropriate.

Spec for Best Gaming 2010
Poc : Intel Core i7 975 extreme or ( above may be 100core 2015)
mobo: Asus Rampag II Extreme / Gigabyte GA-EX58-Extreme
RAM : Corsair Dominator
Cooler : Noctua/Sunbeam/silver arrow/spire thermax/shynte
HDD System : SSD Corsair 160Gb
PSU : Corsair 1050W (enough for Crossfire 4x HD6870)
HDD DATA : WDC Velociraptor 12000RPM 2TB
Casing : artistic Made by self from Acryllic, gold
interesting...?

for under $100 I'd go with the Phenom II X3 715, or 740 from newegg and this if you are into overclocking http://www.amazon.com/Cooler-Maste [...] 223&sr=8-1 or this if you want to leave it at stock. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6835200014 Do not get an Athlon processor. The missing L3 cache really hurts when it comes to gaming.

notsonoobpcguy- I know Far Cry 2 is hurt by it (about 10% performance loss) and L4D as you said, so that makes me wonder what games that haven't been benchmarked or aren't released yet will be hurt by it too. I guess I'm just saying I wouldn't want to give up that much performance and take a gamble on it when you can get a Phenom II in the same price range. I did word it wrong though, the L3 doesn't make a huge difference. And that heatsink is the best cheap heatsink I could find since the PII X3s are all OEM chips on Newegg's site and don't come with a heatsink.

Hey jtt283 send me along a message when if you can get the 740BE unlocked, im still going back and forth between that and a Athlon X4 640. @Andon I might just end up getting a Phenom II X3 if jtt283 can unlock to X4 and if i can than thats a double win, i get four cores and L3 cache. But i will need another heatsink, im planning on building a HTPC with all my left over parts :3

Coolieo that should be before i order :3 I hate waiting for things from UPS.

too many procie make confuse, sick a head depend on money & he want it

Lol nice metaphor :3

Whats the heck is sandy bridge?

Sandy Bridge isn't that great. The biggest benefit is that it has awesome integrated graphics, but the biggest draw back is you can't OC them much. Unless you go with a pricey "K" model, current i5 and i7s will be able to OC much higher than Sandy Bridge. Ivy Bridge, whevener that comes out, might be better tho. I'm only excited for Sandy Bridge to see what it does to the laptop market.

Parts are here. System should wake up some time tomorrow.

The mobo is the ASRock 870iCafe. I would not have paid full price for it (see the review at HardwareSecrets), but when they put it on eBay, I found it worth a bid, and got it for a mere $35+shipping.

Yes, X3 740; unlocked to X4. It "feels" faster than the Q9450 it is replacing, but mostly due to the 120GB G.Skill SSD...

Thats fantastic news, i will be buying a X3 740 SUPER soon. Thanks for kinda testing that out for me jtt283. Also how is OCing? Does your mobo still recognize it as a black edition CPU? @wolfram23 Well im sure that even leaving the unlocked X3 Phenom is faster than his Q9450 stock.

Looking at that chart the Q9450 stacks up to a Phenon II X4 which he UNLOCKED his X3 to, sorry i wasn't exactly clear on that Not to hate on Intel but why their CPUs so darn expensive? For something the speed of what i bought i would of had to spend 20 to 30+ dollars more. Also the X6 is a big smack in Intel's face who needs to spend 1000+ bucks on a Intel core when even the $190 X6 is faster than a i7 975 at 3.33ghz?

Even my Phenom X2 550 is faster than most C2Ds, ok i overstated the 1090T its actually about as fast as a i7 920 or 860. Anyways i find its hard to "rate" CPUs, sure there are of course general areas like X2, X3, X4 and either Phenom or Athlon but it all ends up at how you think the game/program performs. Everything is coded/written differently there is no one way to just say one CPU is faster than another if its compared to other in the same general performance, some games prefer higher clock speeds (Fallout 3) others like more cores (GTA IV) its just all up to how much money your willing to spend and how it performs to you. To me a X4 at $80 sounds like a steal considering that some X4s are in i7 range depending on what game.