Phenom II 940 + GTX 460

[Roland112]

i am planning on getting the EVGA GTX 460 superclocked, but i fear that my cpu may bottleneck the GPU am i right? or will the combo be an excellent pair?

current system if info is required to help answer my question
Phenom II 940 ( 3.0 ghz stock oc'd to 3.5 ghz)
8 gigs of Pc 6400 ( 900mhz) Gskill gaming RAM
ASUS M4N72-e AM2/AM3 mobo
EVGA GTS 250 1gb superclocked

 

[jeffredo]

Its more than fine to begin with and definitely no issue at all with your 3.5 Ghz overclock.

 

[jay2tall]

You will enjoy this article: http://cipuci.blogspot.com/2010/08/best-cpu-for-gtx-460.html

That CPU, especially OCed, will be perfectly fine with a GTX460. Gotta love those low cost AMD running with more expensive Intel chips. Gotta love the value.

 

[jeffredo]

Thanks jay. That does make me feel better about my X4 955 after a year of use (especially OC'd to 3.6 Ghz). Still O.K. for the new graphics cards and games.

 

[jay2tall]

The Phenom II's are great. My buddy has been putting the x2 550 and now 555BE chips in his build and unlocking the other cores. $100 for a dual core that will unlock to 4, awesome. I think he ran into one so far that had issues after unlocking. They say it is a 9/10 chance now. The new Asus board have a physical switch now to unlock the cores rather than doing it through the BIOS. Gotta love the Value they bring to the table.

 

[Roland112]

You will enjoy this article: http://cipuci.blogspot.com/2010/08/best-cpu-for-gtx-460.html

That CPU, especially OCed, will be perfectly fine with a GTX460. Gotta love those low cost AMD running with more expensive Intel chips. Gotta love the value.

thanks man yeah the phenom IIs are outstanding, though if you dont mind me saying, if they can, tell your buddies who dont have phenom 2's to pick up a 940 only diff between 955 and 65 and 40 is the cpu freq easy oc will fix it, so i got a 965 got over half the price