Right now I have a little extra money and am thinking about upgrading my cpu. I currently have an am3 mobo with a phenom II x4 840 running at 3.7 GHz.
I was wondering if it would be worth getting the Phenom II x4 970 BE for $130 or Phenom II x4 975 BE for $145 (both on sale for the weekend).
I have the ZALMAN CNPS9500A-LED 92mm 2 Ball CPU Cooler, and will be overclocking, so I was thinking the Black Edition cpus would be a nice fit. I mostly use the pc for gaming but I don't really run any new games and my video card can handle everything I play on maxed out settings.
Should I go ahead and make the upgrade or will I not see a performance increase even with overclocking?
I was wondering if it would be worth getting the Phenom II x4 970 BE for $130 or Phenom II x4 975 BE for $145 (both on sale for the weekend).
I have the ZALMAN CNPS9500A-LED 92mm 2 Ball CPU Cooler, and will be overclocking, so I was thinking the Black Edition cpus would be a nice fit. I mostly use the pc for gaming but I don't really run any new games and my video card can handle everything I play on maxed out settings.
Should I go ahead and make the upgrade or will I not see a performance increase even with overclocking?