AMD cpu suggestions

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

There is also meant to be a Steamroller based Athlon II X4 860K which has already appeared on pre-order in the US.

Edit!!

OcUK have them on pre-order:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showpr...odid=CP-386-AM

[DanceswithUnix]

There is also meant to be a Steamroller based Athlon II X4 860K which has already appeared on pre-order in the US.

Edit!!

OcUK have them on pre-order:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showpr...odid=CP-386-AM

Interesting development, but £11 more gets you an FX6300 if you want speed, if you want low power & noise then you probably want the built in graphics. If you want uATX form factor then the current lack of decent boards might push you to the 860K, but otherwise I am struggling to see where I would want one.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Interesting development, but £11 more gets you an FX6300 if you want speed, if you want low power & noise then you probably want the built in graphics. If you want uATX form factor then the current lack of decent boards might push you to the 860K, but otherwise I am struggling to see where I would want one.

In the OP,it seems an mATX motherboard is being used and remember OcUK might not be the cheapest for the X4 860K.

Looking at the IPC improvements I expect it will comfortably outperform the X4 760K(clockspeeds are more or less the same as the X4 860K) especially if any media encoding is done:

http://uk.hardware.info/reviews/5156...-vs-piledriver
http://www.hardware.fr/medias/photos...IMG0043804.png
http://semiaccurate.com/assets/uploa...Comparison.png

Any game which threads well,seems to show very big improvements in IPC too,and IIRC a number of the newest racing games do scale up to 4 threads at least.

[razer121]

I bought an A8 5600K thank you so much for the input guys! now onto a few boards, im going to have a look at google find out which chipsets are good and which are not. If anyone has suggestions then suggest away!

I have a £60 budget which is max for the board.

Scaryjim your welcome to it now if your interested as the build is currently pulled apart and it is just a board i use for tests really!

Thanks again guys no end of help here

[Nezbert]

If you're connecting it to a large TV I'd avoid cheap MSI motherboards. Mine works fine, but if I need to go into BIOS I have to disconnect HDMI and plug in via VGA port otherwise the picture is distorted.
If you're using a proper PC monitor any motherboard should be fine.
My cheap MSI board is good, by the way, it's just a minor annoyance because I use my TV as a monitor.

[Bonebreaker777]

Hmm.Wonder if distortion is only for MSI AMD boards because I used several in the last two years running on IGP but nothing like that happened...

[Nezbert]

My guess is that to keep things on a budget compared to Gigabyte and Asus they employ cheaper BIOS graphics chips. I could be wrong, and their boards work well as a low cost alternative to the big two.

[PlayerAsleep]

We have a PC with the FX-6300 and its a very powerful unit for the £80 it costs. Well worth the money, although it is prone to getting a bit hot so an aftermarket cooler is recommended