Upgrading my CPU AMD X2 BE-550 need help

[borisvodofsky]

For gaming, you won't really get a huge increase with any AMD upgrade. First off, hexacores perform the same as quads in games. Secondly, X2 550 is within arms reach of an X4, since a lot of games are either limited to two threads and the ones that are quad optimized don't really improve all that much from having extra threads when the cores themselves aren't any faster.

I'd recommend gathering up enough cash for a Z68/Z77 + 2500K/3570K upgrade. Wait as long as you need or spend as much as you have to in order to get a CPU that demonstrably gives you a big boost in framerates (assuming the GPU fully utilizes it). An X4 965 only improves fps in CPU bound games like FC2 by ~30%, whereas i5-2500K doubles the framerate.

What's your video card?

YUP, it's all there.

Performance to price ratio is significantly higher for INTEL right now. Overclocked or other wise.

 

[formulav8]

For gaming, you won't really get a huge increase with any AMD upgrade.

Thats a crock. If he's not limited by his video card then there are definitely AMD cpu upgrades that would definitely increase the frames over what he currently has.

 

[borisvodofsky]

Thats a crock. If he's not limited by his video card then there are definitely AMD cpu upgrades that would definitely increase the frames over what he currently has.

Nope, nada, gaming depends primarily on ipc. and almost all amd cpus have the same ipc, even overclocked, it's still well behind intel's budget offerings..

 

[2is]

Nope, nada, gaming depends primarily on ipc. and almost all amd cpus have the same ipc, even overclocked, it's still well behind intel's budget offerings..

This... Is wrong.

 

[borisvodofsky]

This... Is wrong.

Obviously I'm only including the phenom line. they all perform similarly in gaming benchmarks.

We're not looking at crunching benchmarks because the op's just a gamer.

 

[2is]

It's still wrong. Play BF3 MP on a phenom II x2 then on an x4 and tell me it performs the same. I'm not saying it will measure up to Intel but to claim that all AMD CPUs are going to perform the same is silly.