CPU to choose for my nephews free PC ?

[Gripen90]

I'm making a super light gaming pc for 720p low/medium detail gaming for my 5 year old nephew. I have a GTX 670 2GB, an old Asrock AM3 motherboard (no OC option), 8GB DDR3 1333MHz and I have two CPU's laying around and I'm not sure which would be the better option for gaming now a days ?. The machine just needs to run GTA 5, Overwatch, Fortnite, BF1 at above mentioned settings.
I have these;
Phenom II X4 955 (non Black Edition), 4cores, 3.2GHz.
Phenom II X6 1055T, 6 cores, 2.8GHz (turbo up to 3.3GHz, when 3 cores in use)

Which should I choose ?

 

[Gripen90]

I guess the Phenom II X6 it is thank you for clarifying guys

 

[Gripen90]

Are you seriously asking whether you should use a quad or hex core? I mean obviously more cores is always going to be better. X6 that thing.

Yea I am seriously asking because it's either 3.2GHz constantly on 4 cores or 2.8GHz constantly on 4 or 6 cores loaded. It is still a 400MHz difference impacting gaming performance, and as you know AMD's cores no matter the number haven't been the strongest when compared to either Quad Core Lynnfields or Nehalem CPU's.

 

[Gripen90]

gta v for a 5 year old.. right

Well he plays GTA III, GTA Vice City on PS2. He's not playing for the shooting but for driving cars, flying etc - playing it as a big sandbox...
... and he's turning 6, 28th of april. Hence why I'm making the pc.

 

[Gripen90]

Anyways that’s off topic, the x6 simply as it’s 6 core and the upgrade path/top tier from the quad 955, but as you own both it wouldn’t be a problem for you to test both and see which was seems more worthwhile and a general comparison.

Yea I'm probably going to make quick open test bed and test them in the weekend.

 

[Gripen90]

It certainly be worthwhile because while the 6 core makes the most sense, they are old and don’t know how you stored them and so on, so it’s best to make sure they both run and run well in case one decides to fail.

I know the X4 955 works since it's running in the system now The X6 has been kept in original packaging, but I haven't tested it yet.

 

[Gripen90]

What's stopping him from shooting a guy in the face then running him over 16 times with a tractor trailer though? I don't think kids should play M rated games.

And I'm sure that even if he just drives around, he runs over a few people "accidentally" now and then.

My brother was 7 and I was 14 years old when we played GTA, GTA London. I have never heard of him running over people with his car, and he's 31 today

As for my nephew gaming it's done under supervision and blood is disabled in the games (GTA 5 with No Blood/Damage Visible Mod).
I think what matters is that kids get shown and reminded the difference between fiction and consequence vs fact and consequence, and it's the adults job to balance these things so the children continuously get a realistic perspective between what they play/watch and do in real life.

 

[Gripen90]

Ok so he can mow down 20 people on the sidewalk with an SUV but there's no blood so it's copacetic. Gotcha.

I suppose then kids shouldn't play soldiers outside with toy guns etc imagining shooting eachother. Gotcha !