[Solved] Athlon II x2 or phenom x4[not phenom ii]

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hello guys! once again im asking ur help coz i cant find my answers in the
web.

i was before using an athlon ii x2 250 and it was great! but 1 day ifound or met a person
selling me his quad core phenom 9550, should i buy and use that?

is it better for gaming guys?

Reply to gene_11

don't bother, its not much of an upgrade in gaming. tho it might be better in multitasking with the 4 cores.

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Reply to esrever

imo, stick with the athlon ii - take chance with core unlocking and overclocking (get a good cpu cooler for that).

Reply to De5_roy

ive alredy oc the athlon to as high as 4.1ghz but its only 2 cores.in games it takes longer to load a game cos of the 2 cores.
i thought maybe a quadcre and oc it to max can make it faster with BF3 and new other games

Reply to gene_11

and regor atlons cannot be unlocked cos they are native 2 cores

Reply to gene_11

http://www.tomshardware.com/review [...] ,3063.html

Reply to De5_roy

Best answer

gene_11 wrote :

stick with your athlon
loading time depends on harddisk drive speed and not much on cpu
9550 can perform better then 250 (stock) in multithreaded apps, but since you have overclocked it then it can beat 9550 in majority of games and apps
compare them here
www.cpu-world.com/benchmarks/?ind= [...] +family...

Message edited by truegenius on 12-27-2011 at 11:39:55 AM

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