Decent Gaming Processor?

[Mindcraze]

Heya!

Let me start out by saying my last processor was a AMD Athlon 64 Duel Core 2.7 but a few months ago it fried

Now! im looking for a replacment, would like to spend no more then $170 USD

here's some of what I've been looking at-

Newegg.com - AMD Phenom 9850 BLACK EDITION 2.5GHz 4 x 512KB L2 Cache 2MB L3 Cache Socket AM2+ 125W Quad-Core Processor - Processors - Desktops
Newegg.com - AMD Phenom 9950 BLACK EDITION Agena 2.6GHz 4 x 512KB L2 Cache 2MB L3 Cache Socket AM2+ 140W Quad-Core Processor - Processors - Desktops

what im looking for is a processor that can handle gaming, for instance, Red Alert 3, Crysis, etc...

with my setup I was able to run Crysis on max settings and got around 30fps

anyways, any advice would be greatly apreciated

 

[Hussein19891]

Go with the X4 9750 instead if you want. Its about 2.4ghz stock, but you can over clock it to about 3ghz with a nice cooler. Also its hovering around like 165$. The Q6600 probably out performs it any day of the week though.... sadly.

Get one of two, Q6600 or X2 9750 Phenom.

Newegg.com - AMD Phenom 9750 2.4GHz 4 x 512KB L2 Cache 2MB L3 Cache Socket AM2+ 125W 65nm Quad-Core Processor - Processors - Desktops

 

[Trotter]

Hold on a minute... More importantly, what motherboard do you have? It would suck to buy a processor that won't work in your board.