All right so I'm currently building a gaming computer. I'm thinking about getting the phenom ii x4 840 and then upgrading to a bulldozer in a few months. Is this a good idea? How well is the phenom ii 840 for gaming? or should i just go with a phenom ii x4 955( or 965 I'm still thinking about it) and leave it at that.HD 5770coolermaster 550wGigabyte GA880GADDR3 4gb.
Buying any AM3 setup now would be an absolute waste of time and money given the imminent release of bulldozer and full support motherboards.Hold onto your money please
AMD has already said that the Bulldozer/FX chips will work on the AM3 platform in a gimped manor. So you won't get the full power out of your FX processor. Really, you can wait until June 20th? That gives you time to save a little more green and just buy a full-fleged AMD FX-8130p or FX-8110 and 990 series motherboard setup. Just remember that you will need RAM speeds of at least 1866mhz. I think I would wait.
