Is it worth it?

[Xupthree60]

So I have a phenom ii 965be and it's bottlenecking my 7970ghz ... I don't have a ton of money right now and someone in my area has an i3 4150 with a crappy green PCB board, Asrock IMB-380-L, and 8gb ram for about 100 bucks...

 

From what I can see the 4150 should be similar in multi threaded apps to my 965 but much better single core performance...

 

Is it worth the upgrade?

[piemadd]

2 minutes ago, Xupthree60 said:

So I have a phenom ii 965be and it's bottlenecking my 7970ghz ... I don't have a ton of money right now and someone in my area has an i3 4150 with a crappy green PCB board, Asrock IMB-380-L, and 8gb ram for about 100 bucks...

 

From what I can see the 4150 should be similar in multi threaded apps to my 965 but much better single core performance...

 

Is it worth the upgrade?

Put it on Craigslist or on the classfields. Also, put in your city.

[SLAYR]

3 minutes ago, Xupthree60 said:

So I have a phenom ii 965be and it's bottlenecking my 7970ghz ... I don't have a ton of money right now and someone in my area has an i3 4150 with a crappy green PCB board, Asrock IMB-380-L, and 8gb ram for about 100 bucks...

 

From what I can see the 4150 should be similar in multi threaded apps to my 965 but much better single core performance...

 

Is it worth the upgrade?

If you are using all 4 threads then no, it isn't you would only see about a 7% gain.

 

http://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/AMD-Phenom-II-X4-965-vs-Intel-Core-i3-4150/606vs2309