I have accumulated almost enough spare parts to put a system together. I have a spare PhenomII 955Be, 4Gb Crucial Ballistix DDR3 @ 1333Mhz (2 X 2Gb), an OCZ Fatality 550 Watt psu, MSI GTS250 gpu, an older WD 160Gb hd and a CoolerMaster case to put it all in. This is just going to be a spare/ work bench pc for now, but at some point may be upgraded more as a back-up gamer.
The only thing I really need to put this all together is a motherboard. Since this is just mainly a project to use old parts and fill my time, I only want to spend $50-70 on the board.
Is there any disadvantage to using an AM3+ board for this build? They dont seem more expensive than the comparable AM3 boards, and I wanted to leave the door open for a future upgrade to an AM3+ cpu if AMD ever ends up releasing a decent one in the future. Is there anything about using an AM3 cpu in the AM3+ socket that would hinder performance? I will be playing around with overclocking since its a BE processor. I have my eye on a couple of AM3, and 3 or 4, AM3+ boards on Newegg...just waiting for one to go on sale
The only thing I really need to put this all together is a motherboard. Since this is just mainly a project to use old parts and fill my time, I only want to spend $50-70 on the board.
Is there any disadvantage to using an AM3+ board for this build? They dont seem more expensive than the comparable AM3 boards, and I wanted to leave the door open for a future upgrade to an AM3+ cpu if AMD ever ends up releasing a decent one in the future. Is there anything about using an AM3 cpu in the AM3+ socket that would hinder performance? I will be playing around with overclocking since its a BE processor. I have my eye on a couple of AM3, and 3 or 4, AM3+ boards on Newegg...just waiting for one to go on sale
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