Quote Originally Posted by fbmbirds View Post
i think im going with this.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814134098
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819103846
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820231277
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813131636
hopefully i can unlock the 2 cores on that cpu and overclock it. i have a good watercooled set up right now so every thing will fall into place.

i think this is a good 500 upgrade of a system compared to the one i have now in my sig.
Personally, I'd spend a little more for CAS 7 RAM or, if you can't afford it, go with DDR3-1333 CAS 7 RAM. With AMD it's almost always better to run tight timings than fast speeds.

I would also suggest an AMD chipset over nVidia. The 790X chipsets have a great OC'ing history and cost about the same. nVidia has definitely fallen behind over the past two generations (AM2 & AM3) when it comes to OC'ing. I do admit, though, you cannot run SLI with an AMD chipset but a single nVidia card is fine ...