AM3+ Recommends?
Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2020 2:06 am
Ahoy!
Time for a little PC upgrading, to keep up with the Joneses (okay, Beerbuzzes). I can't afford a wholesale overhaul, but I can likely swing a new CPU, which wouldn't require new motherboard and RAM.
Fortunately, my specs aren't too bad:
There's conflicting info online re: the usefulness of multiple cores. Some advocate the more cores the merrier. Others say for gaming anything beyond 2- or 4-cores is irrelevant since most games aren't supporting multithreading beyond dual core.
Which means one camp says get the most cores and most speed you can, which sounds like the FX-8350 8-core Black Edition at 4.0 GHz seems like the sweet spot between $$ and speed.
But the non-multi-core camp says I could get a 4-core like the Vishera 4350 at 4.3 GHz for much less. Fewer cores, but more clock speed.
Anyone knowledgeable have an opinion? (And yes, Daddy-O and Raven, I'm looking at the two of you.)
Thanks for any illumination down this dark tunnel of upgrading.
Time for a little PC upgrading, to keep up with the Joneses (okay, Beerbuzzes). I can't afford a wholesale overhaul, but I can likely swing a new CPU, which wouldn't require new motherboard and RAM.
Fortunately, my specs aren't too bad:
- Windows 7 SP1
Athlon II X4 640 3.00 GHz
16GB RAM (DDR3, 240-pin, 1.5v)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070
8GB RAM
1920x1080 display
Motherboard:
MSI 880GSM-E41
PCI-E 2.0
There's conflicting info online re: the usefulness of multiple cores. Some advocate the more cores the merrier. Others say for gaming anything beyond 2- or 4-cores is irrelevant since most games aren't supporting multithreading beyond dual core.
Which means one camp says get the most cores and most speed you can, which sounds like the FX-8350 8-core Black Edition at 4.0 GHz seems like the sweet spot between $$ and speed.
But the non-multi-core camp says I could get a 4-core like the Vishera 4350 at 4.3 GHz for much less. Fewer cores, but more clock speed.
Anyone knowledgeable have an opinion? (And yes, Daddy-O and Raven, I'm looking at the two of you.)
Thanks for any illumination down this dark tunnel of upgrading.