AMD Phenom II X4 965 vs. AMD Phenom II X6 1055T

[stant1rm]

I have a friend who would be willing to trade me a his AMD Phenom II X4 965 BE for my AMD Phenom II X6 1055T. The reason I am considering this is twofold.

First, because of the unlocked multiplier the 965 SHOULD overclock more easily, something of interest to me considering I can't get my 1055T to go beyond stock speeds at all.

Second, most games don't take advantage of 6 cores, let alone 4, so the higher clock rate would be very beneficial. By the time games can effectively use 6 cores, I'm sure I'll just upgrade to Piledriver (assuming it's the real deal) or Haswell as 6 cores slowly become more mainstream.

Would this be a worthwhile upgrade? The games I play are Crysis, Crysis 2, BF3, Alan Wake, Skyrim, etc... Would the initial 600MHz increase help with CPU heavy games like Skyrim, especially since I think I can turn a 600MHz increase into 1200MHz?

 

[KewiinG]

I would go for the overclock, but that's maybe just me..

 

[DJDeCiBeL]

Yeah, that's a worthwhile trade. Even at stock speeds, the 965 is 600Mhz faster, and as you said, the two extra cores on the 1055T don't mean anything for gaming.

 

[maui67]

Just like the other responses have said, make the trade and overclock that baby as far as you can!

 

[stant1rm]

Sweet, thanks guys. I think I'll go ahead and do it.

 

[stant1rm]

Best answer selected by stant1rm.

 

[TheXtremeCommander]

Just buy Phenom ii x6 1055t and overclock it to 4GHz(limit) and bamn,this will be beast.Cuz if you buy x4 965 and oc it to 4.6GHz(limit) just increase 30% performance.But if you buy x6 1055t and oc it to 4GHz.It beat FX-6350 stock speed.But x4 965 stock speed already beat x6 1055t stock speed.But If you oc x6 1055t to 4GHz,beast release.x4 965 oc to 4.6GHz just release 30-40% performance.x6 1055t @ 4Ghz will help you bottleneck 86% the high-end gpu like GTX 980 or R9 380.But x4 965 @ 4.6Ghz not help bottleneck over 50% with high-end gpu.Only can bottleneck with mid-high gpu like GTX 760 or R9 270X.