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Those optimizations for SSSE3 and SSE4 do give a performance boost, but it's more in specific locations and doesn't normally amount to more than 5-10%. The AMD will play most games perfectly fine. If you disabled frame limit, it would be noticably different, but at 3.4ghz most games would run perfectly fine and full speed and only the really demanding games would there be a noticable difference between the 2 in pcsx2.
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...Phenom II 965 is little kickass for MoBo's, maybe better solution Phenom II 955... But it's your choice...
It will perform better then Q6600...
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It will NOT perform better than the Q6600 you have now!
With this "upgrade" you'll loose from 10 to 30% fps, depending on how well the Phenom overclocks.
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i dont think so rama, i think if he would overclock phenom to 3.8ghz like me then he would have a little boost ( maybe like 5%
) but its not worth it.
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Yeah I concur. Even if you net up to 15%+ in some specific apps (and intel/amd performance tends to be very app-specific these days), I doubt you'll feel like it was money well spent, especially with that new Quad from Intel coming out in a couple months (the 7xxx series -- which promise to be extremely overclockable given their 13.5-14.5 multipliers and smaller L2 caches).
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