Worth upgrading from a Phenom II X4 965 to i3-6100? 2 core vs 4 core

WoundedPoptart

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I am wondering if the i3-6100 would be better than the Phenom II X4 965, the 965 is pretty old and from what I see the i3-6100 is better in every way besides being a 2 core cpu vs the 965 being 4 core. I could just upgrade to a newer AMD cpu but I will be getting a new motherboard anyways (my current motherboard is wonky). I've been wanting make the switch to Intel for awhile now and I could upgrade to an i5/i7 in a few months.
 
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the i3 will be faster than the Phenom II and faster than any "current" AMD CPU

however if you can wait unil you can afford an i5-6500 that would be my choice
the i3 is a good budget CPU and comes with hyper threading, but investing in a physical dual core in times when dx12 games are released is nothing I'd regard as good business.
the i3 will be faster than the Phenom II and faster than any "current" AMD CPU

however if you can wait unil you can afford an i5-6500 that would be my choice
the i3 is a good budget CPU and comes with hyper threading, but investing in a physical dual core in times when dx12 games are released is nothing I'd regard as good business.
 
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JWoody

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The I3 will NOT be any faster in games or anything else that actually uses more than 2 cores, and more and more games are supporting multithreading beyond 2 cores. (Considering the Phenom II will outperform any FX clock per clock. aka; if they were running at the same speeds)

Infact core per core they are roughly the same, an I3 would not be any better a value when newer and better chips are incoming, that being said however, the i5 or Zen would be a far more Logical upgrade path. Thus the reason I skipped FX all togather.
 


the i3 uses Hyperthreading
thus it's faster than in games than a FX6350 for example

also the way it processes commands is faster than the AMD Phenom II's
I had a Phenom II x4 955 while a friend on mine got an i3-4170. he easily outperformed me in games although I had the stronger GPU.