AMD 550 BE questions

[lee20010]

A member of the forum (Dandaman) has kindly offered to lend me a AMD 550 Black edition to tie me over till I buy my i5 or i7, he said that one core cannot be overclocked (some issue with it) however all four cores work at stock.

MY question is, what would be faster. 3 overclocked cores, or 4 stock cores?

 

[lee20010]

the main use would be gaming. my current processor holds my gfx card back. What would be better for gaming.

 

[lee20010]

Any idea?

 

[lee20010]

what type of games are you playing.

 

[lee20010]

that's very helpful thank you. So stick to 4 stock cores??

 

[lee20010]

well it should come tomorrow so we'll see