First post, by Unknown_K
I have an ATI HD4870x2 card running on a Gigabyte GA-970A-D3 AM3+ board with 4x 1GB DDR3-1333 sticks of RAM (3GB available).
The OS is Win7 32bit since I figured the card was too new for an XP setup (what do you guys think for the OS)?
Anyway I have available an Opteron 1389 (2.9ghz 4 core) or a Phenom II x2 B59 (3.4ghz 2 core). Would this system be better off with a fast dual core or a slower quad core AMD for gaming of the era? I could get a FX chip down the road but I already have a FX-8350 setup (unless I go for a 4 core).
I did unlock the B59 to Quad core but it was unstable doing benchmarks (159W seems kind of excessive for that system anyway). Heatsink is a EVO 212 Hyper. I did try upping the FSB in dual core mode to 225 giving me 3.8+ghz and that seemed stable (overclocking the quite RAM a bit, no heat spreaders).
Basically I am just trying to setup the 4870x2 card to run optimally on an AMD CPU.
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