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- Thread starter mayebaza
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Not really IMHO, the 970 is just another Phenom II quad core, but with a higher stock clockspeed of 3.5Ghz.
The 970 overclocking seems to top out at around 4.1 GHz with good cooling. As the 955 and 970 performance is the same clock-for-clock - then the maximum performance boost over your 3.7GHz 955 is 9%. Imho, this 9% (maximum) performance boost is not worth £140.
However, if you do a lot of work with multi-threaded applications then a Phenom II X6 is worth a look. I would suggest the new 95w X6 1055T if you were going down this road.
The 970 overclocking seems to top out at around 4.1 GHz with good cooling. As the 955 and 970 performance is the same clock-for-clock - then the maximum performance boost over your 3.7GHz 955 is 9%. Imho, this 9% (maximum) performance boost is not worth £140.
However, if you do a lot of work with multi-threaded applications then a Phenom II X6 is worth a look. I would suggest the new 95w X6 1055T if you were going down this road.
