phenom II minecraft

[sinnders]

hey i was wondering im building a PC for my brother and i was thinking of a pentium G830 but is a phenom II x4 as fast in minecraft i know AMD isnt as fast in minecraft as it can only use one core one thread and thats were intel wins but would a phenom II X4 with a GTX650TI still get 100-150FPS in 1080P

 

[clutchc]

100-150FPS! The human eye is fooled into seeing fluid motion somewhere around 28-30 FPS. And your 60HZ refresh rate of your monitor will limit you to 60FPS no matter how fast the frames are produced. Minecraft is a low end graphics game anyway. Either processor will be more than enough for Minecraft.

 

[sinnders]

well i can see a huge dif in 30FPS and 60 i cant play minecraft without a solid 60FPS but i want head room for it would a phenom II x4 still get 100-150FPS or would it bottleneck in minecraft

 

[clutchc]

What you are probably experiencing is frame time stutter, not frame rate difference. The GTX 650ti is marginal at 1920x1080, I doubt it will get anywhere close to 100-150fps, even in Minecraft. But unless you have a MB with an AM3+ socket, the Phenom II X4 965BE will be the fastest still available that you can use anyway. (The Phenom II X6 1090T or 1100T will be a bit faster if you can still find one.) Either will be faster than a dual core pentium:
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-cpu-review-overclock,3106-5.html
However, the MB for the Intel chip will give you a better upgrade path. So you may want to go with the less powerful dual core for now, with the plan on upgrading in the future.