Thinking abotu upgrade to new computer, i need to use AMD if i want to stay within budget, intel is nto an option in my specific circumstances, as i have to re use a bunch of old components that use IDE connections, and the motherboard that will work perfectly for my needs is an AM3.
All i am looking for is if anyone owns an Athlon II x3 unlocked to a x4 phenom II, what are the average FPS in certain games? and at what point would it bottleneck a GPU? i was thinking unlocking the x3 because then it wil be a quad, it fits in the budget, and i cant go with a pentium or i3, and eve at my super low budget, a phenom II, that isnt the point though, im nto asking for build advice, i juyst want to know how well the athlon II x3/4 performs in games, im looking at a GTX 550Ti as the video card. will it bottleneck on the athlon? if so, how badly? and if i ever upgraded to a phenom II x4 in teh higher end range that fits in my mobo, would i be able to SLI another 550 Ti? anyone with a similar setup have any benchmarks/experience/frames per second info for me? i will EVENTUALLY UPGRADE IT, the athlon is mainly so i can have something better than my crap laptop to play LIGHT games on, and medium-high settings on normal games. price range maxes at like 300$ but i need the AMD because the only motherboards with IDE (the reason i could get away with such a tiny budget) dont support intel.
All i am looking for is if anyone owns an Athlon II x3 unlocked to a x4 phenom II, what are the average FPS in certain games? and at what point would it bottleneck a GPU? i was thinking unlocking the x3 because then it wil be a quad, it fits in the budget, and i cant go with a pentium or i3, and eve at my super low budget, a phenom II, that isnt the point though, im nto asking for build advice, i juyst want to know how well the athlon II x3/4 performs in games, im looking at a GTX 550Ti as the video card. will it bottleneck on the athlon? if so, how badly? and if i ever upgraded to a phenom II x4 in teh higher end range that fits in my mobo, would i be able to SLI another 550 Ti? anyone with a similar setup have any benchmarks/experience/frames per second info for me? i will EVENTUALLY UPGRADE IT, the athlon is mainly so i can have something better than my crap laptop to play LIGHT games on, and medium-high settings on normal games. price range maxes at like 300$ but i need the AMD because the only motherboards with IDE (the reason i could get away with such a tiny budget) dont support intel.