Well I should have asked this earlier today, but its not to late.
My 5+ year old pc just offed itself over the weekend. The local microcenter has the following two cpus I am considering.
Q9550 = $170
Phenom II x4 955 Black Edition = $190
I plan using this mostly as a server (web, other) , some eventual video/photo editing and gaming in the future (diablo 3). I dont plan to upgrade this for at least 18 months - 2 years. I did some quick research over the last couple days when I narrowed down my choices. It seemed most people were in favor of the Phenom.
I have since purchased the cpu locally and plan get most of the rest from newegg. Maybe I am suffering from a slight case of buyers remorse, but now that I am looking around again it seems most the suggestions for the Phenom were due apparently to a significant price difference between the Phenom and the 9550. Now that it appears the prices have swung in the other direction, is the 9550 the better route to go? Will I see much of a difference by going ddr3? If I go ddr3 would I be defeating the purpose of only running 2x1GB sticks? I plan to do this on as tight a budget as possible for now. The fact that the AMD boards had more on-board video options also weighed into my decision to go with the Phenom since I will run headless for a while.
Anyways thanks for any/all advice, and hopefully I haven't offended the forum police with some lack of formatting in this post.
My 5+ year old pc just offed itself over the weekend. The local microcenter has the following two cpus I am considering.
Q9550 = $170
Phenom II x4 955 Black Edition = $190
I plan using this mostly as a server (web, other) , some eventual video/photo editing and gaming in the future (diablo 3). I dont plan to upgrade this for at least 18 months - 2 years. I did some quick research over the last couple days when I narrowed down my choices. It seemed most people were in favor of the Phenom.
I have since purchased the cpu locally and plan get most of the rest from newegg. Maybe I am suffering from a slight case of buyers remorse, but now that I am looking around again it seems most the suggestions for the Phenom were due apparently to a significant price difference between the Phenom and the 9550. Now that it appears the prices have swung in the other direction, is the 9550 the better route to go? Will I see much of a difference by going ddr3? If I go ddr3 would I be defeating the purpose of only running 2x1GB sticks? I plan to do this on as tight a budget as possible for now. The fact that the AMD boards had more on-board video options also weighed into my decision to go with the Phenom since I will run headless for a while.
Anyways thanks for any/all advice, and hopefully I haven't offended the forum police with some lack of formatting in this post.
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