If you want to game get a 4170. The FX memory controller is way superior to the old Phenom one. I have my Samsung WonderRAM rolling at 1740Mhz 8-8-8-24 and scoring above 12 GB/s on MaxxMem. This is using the stock cooler and running an ASUS AI suite auto-OC (one click of the mouse to hit 4.6Ghz @ stock volts) with the
stock cooler. A phenom with regular cooling is not even going to come close to this 4170. All this trash talk about "blah Phenoms are better" is complete non-sense.
58 is a pretty darned good score on the 1080 Shogun 2 Benchmark.This is better than lots of guys running 2500s and $500 GPUs score in this benchmark, let alone Phenoms. That is with a $130 CPU and 2 GPUs @ $90 each.
New & Fast is better than Old & Slow.
I have been around the computing scene since the get-go and this used to be common knowledge. Not sure when this neo-Luddite "Old is Better" garbage became the norm. I can't explain it.
Edited by Jagged_Steel - 7/10/12 at 7:46pm
It's the worst CPU I've ever had.
Phenom II
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