Hi guys a mate of mine (who only uses amd) wants to know what the best AMD cpu is for gaming, he has a standard 6950 vga card so doesn't want any bottleneck thanks guys
Well i just spoke to him and he would go intel for gaming, he was over the moon when i mentioned the 1100t with 6 cores, he thought it would be better than the 2600k for gaming as its got 6 cores .....but he poss will go 2500k or 2600k, he just games and does naff all else ...i think he is more worried about bottleneck lol cheers matey
PII X4 980 is the best for gaming (more or less going to be on par with a 2500k, it's not spectacularly better), not much else though (assuming overclocking to the max)
Get a 2500k. It'll cost (including motherboard)about £260 instead of £160 but should easily last 2/3 years longer than an 955 at good levels of performance and I'm guessing your friend doesn't want to upgrade often.
If he must go AMD, for gaming, a Phenom 2 980 BE would be the best bet. Most games won't touch 6 cores so they just go to waste. A 980 will clock to around 4.2Ghz if you're brave with the volts. A 2500K would be even better purely for gaming.