Yep, that's great. Will you be running Vista?Ok. So i am going to get a 8800GT with the 790x chipset a 450w power supply 4 GB of ram, and the Phenom 9850 X4. Will i need an upgraded cooling system from the factory installed one. And is all this stuff compatible together.
It would be noticable, definitely. Mainly because of the clock speeds (2.3GHz vs 2.5GHz. The 9850 also has a faster memory controller and a more effective L3 cache because it does not suffer from the TLB bug. It should be around the same price as the 9600, maybe a bit more expensive but it'll definitely be worth it.How much worse would it run if i bought the Phenom 9600?
Here are some charts: http://www23.tomshardware.com/cpu_2007.html?modelx=33&model1=1074&model2=873&chart=441How do the Phenom processors compare to the Intel Core 2 duo processors?
No, it is a different socket and a completely different technology. You wouldn't want to either, as it would be a big bottleneck on the rest of your system, especially the 8800GT.If i bought the 8800 GT and the 790x motherboard would i still be able to use my pentium 4. And how would the computer perform with the pentium 4 instead of the Phenom?