Which CPU.

first , what is your motherboard + PSU, Phenom II x4 955 black edition. is good choice ! and i prefer Radeon 6950 2GB

obviously if you can (price, power usage, mobo socket) you should get the faster cpu.

neither one will bottleneck your gpu at all. any quad core is powerful enough to feed the gpu consistently.

I'm getting very tired of this nonsense flying around in every thread I read. Some education on the subject:
http://www.legionhardware.com/articles_pages/radeon_hd_...

u should get an mobo upgrade first an than pick the AMD phenom II x4

Well I am getting http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168.... But I could pick otherwise, if you have better stuff.

Mobo is a H-Alpinia-RS780L-uATX. Probably crappy, I don't know.

get better mobo like Asus crosshair Formula V or Gigabyte 990x UD7 minimal Asrock

ya i also think you should go with asus,gigabyte or msi .......and pick up a good ati graphics card

1.I'm not rich.
2.I have a small budget on my motherboard.

Other option biostar or asrock , same as to me, but I don't waste money, once upgrade get highly, alway's need a lot of money when upgrade and don't hurry, and this my experience : old system ddr2 + athlon + hd4850 + psu from case :
- first I just upgrade PSU and system still old
- next 2 month motherboard biostar (cheap) + 1 stick ram DD3 value (new mobo + psu and old other hardware )
- next 1 month get extreme ram 2x2GB (cheap)
- next 1 month get phenom 1055T use stock cooler
- next 1 month get cpu cooler
And finally complete still use old case   but no problem , for now alway ran at 3.8ghz everyday and ejoy!
Next year yes get Am3+ still use old phenom (no problem )

yaa kind of ........ my bad

hi if you want a chart :
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/high_end_cpus.html

love you all  

n.p. sir actually i also think i should leave googling consoles or ipods and get back to PCs    

i know much about new games ,
i also know about GTX 580
nd i heard that the new AMD bulldozers r coming which will kick intel core i s asses

That s All

could you help me more sir? it would be good if we get in touch

nd i must tell you that i want be a game designer when i grow up
Thankyou
yours sincerely