Im doing a big upgrade to my computer. Currently i sit with a cruddy MSI mobo seating a Q6600 from Intel and about 2.5GB of RAM.
I wish to swap out the msi with a gigabyte AM3+ ready board, and go with AMD. Problem is im a little torn right now.
Heres my upgrade list:
Gigabyte GA-990XA-UD3 AM3+ Ready Board
Patriot Viper Xtreme 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 Memory Kit
AMD Phenom II X6 1045T (2.7GHz)
With these parts together, comes to $403CAD from newegg, but im getting doubts about the processor. As a multimedia editor and web developer, more cores makes more sense to me. This said, I am hearing reports that despite this, the X4 965 Black still outperforms it overall, and at $30 cheaper knocks the price of my upgrade below the $400 line.
My gut says to get the X6 simply because the X4 is an older CPU (Hell the specs on the X4 Black still tout AMD64 as a selling feature). the Q6600 Quaddy that i've been using thus far definitely has not done a bad job, and can even still outperform my iMac from 2009.
Should i just go with the X4 Black for now, and upgrade when Bulldozer becomes worth it?
I wish to swap out the msi with a gigabyte AM3+ ready board, and go with AMD. Problem is im a little torn right now.
Heres my upgrade list:
Gigabyte GA-990XA-UD3 AM3+ Ready Board
Patriot Viper Xtreme 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 Memory Kit
AMD Phenom II X6 1045T (2.7GHz)
With these parts together, comes to $403CAD from newegg, but im getting doubts about the processor. As a multimedia editor and web developer, more cores makes more sense to me. This said, I am hearing reports that despite this, the X4 965 Black still outperforms it overall, and at $30 cheaper knocks the price of my upgrade below the $400 line.
My gut says to get the X6 simply because the X4 is an older CPU (Hell the specs on the X4 Black still tout AMD64 as a selling feature). the Q6600 Quaddy that i've been using thus far definitely has not done a bad job, and can even still outperform my iMac from 2009.
Should i just go with the X4 Black for now, and upgrade when Bulldozer becomes worth it?