Go for q9550 or save money for new mobo, cpu and ram?

HI guys! My rig: intel pentium dual core [email protected] , gigabyte p43 es3g, msi gtx460 1gb OC, 4gb patriot ram @1066, hdd 500gb and LG 21.5 1920x1080.

I want to upgrade it for playing upcoming games, and i think that q9550 will fit just fine with the rest of the system,  but it will cost me 100 euros(used by the way, not new), and i dont know is it worth it, or should i save money and buy new mobo amd fx6100 for example and ddr3 ram for 220- 240 euros??

Sorry for bad english, and thank you! ;) 

I would just save some money and upgrade to Sandy or Ivy.

Intel® Core™ i3-2120 what do  you think about this cpu for gaming? its the same price as the fx6100... its like 120 euros.

Hmm...it would probably be good enough. I can't find any comparisons online though. Ideally, you'd want something like a Core i5, but an i3 would probably be good enough. I'm just not sure how it compares to an FX6100. If you can't afford the FX8150 or a nice i5 though, I would probably suggest getting a Phenom II X4 965.

go for this if you can it will be even faster than the 2120

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116775

if not go with the 2120, bulldozer is just terrible,

here is for a 2100 vs 8150, you can really only compare the single/under 4 thread results

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/289?vs=434

anandtech needs to get more ivy chip charts, especially for the ivy dual cores and i3s

Wow, if you look at their overall ratings for CPUs, the highest rated AMD CPU is the Phenom II X4 980 Black Edition. The FX 8150 is rated above a Core 2 Duo E8500 but below a Pentium G850. I don't understand how they rate it that way though because the 8150 slaughters the G850 in almost every test, although the G850 seems to have stronger cores according to cinebench, because the G850 performs better in a single threaded test in cinebench than the 8150.

thats because its cores are stronger, the 8150's other 6 cores don't really help in apps that don't use more that one or two threads, and each core is weak to begin with since they are not true cores, amd CPUs are becoming more like the GPUs, they are having weak cores but putting a shit ton of them to try and make up for it, if you look at game benchmarks, the G850 beats the 8150 because they usually don't use more than 2 cores anyway and even if its supports 4 threads its not like the workload is equal, the first 2 threads will have the most work, and the last two would have helper threads with tons of little stuff

I'm with gigabusterEXE on the i3-3220. It will be a HUGE performance boost (+1.44 GHz, DDR3 RAM, HyperThread, 22nm, ect.) over the E6300.

And native 6 Gb/s SATA III ports... you're gonna love SSDs ;) 

Well thank you guys wery much, i'll just save money and go for the i3 or i5 when i can. but i plan to keep my current graphics card, it should perform decent on 1080p for anonther 6 months or a year hopefully... :)

Yeah, GTX 460's are still pretty nice mid range cards.

I have a i3-3220 in my media center and with a 6870 I have no problems running any games on high. For the money this cpu cant be beat, even by the 4+core amd's.