Best Bang For the Buck Processor

dammit45 · April 25th, 2009, 04:50 AM

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For pure bang for buck across a variety of uses and considering the cost of the whole platform the Phenom II is truely unbeatable

agreed.

Cannyone · June 1st, 2009, 04:14 AM

I just built a Core i7 920 system. And I went for a less expensive motherboard, the Asus P6T. It's in a case that has lots of ventilation, it's a Coolermaster HAF 932. And it seems stable at 18x200~ 3.6GHz. Mind you this CPU is not one of the D0 stepping cores, but it's not requiring extra voltage and it's running fairly cool.

Now I still need to do some real stability testing. But if it will do this speed on air cooling, I'll be a happy camper!

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I'd love to build a Phenom II, with a 790FX board. And compare the two systems head to head. But I can't afford to do that!

IModIntel · June 1st, 2009, 02:35 PM

Then again, I believe that these processors will have different bang for the buck for different applications. If you are going to do mainly HD-Videoediting, Modeling, Rendering, Music conversion, etc... I would go to the i7 without hesitation. If you do any gaming, I would go for the Phenom II platform because in terms in gaming performance there is little to no difference at all between AMD's and Intel's offering. Plus, the AMD platform's overall cost will be MUCH lower than Intel's.

Devinwolf · June 23rd, 2009, 08:25 PM

If you look at the price of the processor only the 920 is the best for the buck.