Is it worth the upgrade?

[GuntherHanne]

Just a quick one. Currently running the Asus Crosshair II Formula motherboard with the AMD Phenom II 940 BE CPU (running at 3.4) and the Radeon HD 5970 GPU and generally all running pretty well.

The Phenom II x4 cpu's have been discontinues but I have a chance to get the 965 still which is stock 3.4 and I guess I can get it to 3.7 or 3.8

Is it however worth doing this as I will not currently upgrade anything else. The GPU maybe at a later stage.

Thanks

[KALSTER]

How much you going to pay for it? I am currently running a 925, but am getting my x6 1090T CPU next week. That will be a much better upgrade I'd say.

Just a little extra speed might make a small difference, but I don't think you'd notice it very easily. apart form benchmarks. If you had 2 extra cores though, you might notice quite a difference in a few applications. Those CPU's are also what the X4s should have been in terms of optimization and the turbo feature.

[StarBound]

It would be better to save that money and maybe go for an i5 at a later stage.

[petrivanzyl]

Not really, won't make much of a difference

[GuntherHanne]

Thanks guys, appreciate the response.

I think I'll give that CPU a miss, maybe I'll look at the AMD Phenom II x6 1100T a little later and new graphic cards (either a dual GPU ATI card or a decent Nvidia GTX in SLi) - something that will outperform my current set-up, if possible