So I have been given a stupidly low budget for a gaming PC. Basically I grabbed an AM2+ board off of eBay and I wanna know which CPU go get. The Phenom ii's are very powerful, good IPC's excellent design and 6mb of L3 cache. While the Phenom I x4 is a quad core but are about 800-1000MHz slower and lack cache on both L2 and L3, but he's begging for a quad core. Would a Phenom x4 9500 beat says a Phenom II x2 545?
CPU has to be AM2+ compatible and under 50 bucks btw.