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??
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.
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
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... :)
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.