Phenom II 555 x2 Unlocked... Time to upgrade?

[ColEx]

Hey, i'm wondering how good does a Phenom II x2 555 unlocked to a quad core match up to current AMD CPU's? I am only interested in AMD, so please don't post stuff about Intel, i am quite aware of how good those CPU's are.

IIRC my fully unlocked CPU equals to something like a Phenom II x4 955? But i am not sure on that...

I could overclock my CPU but it will be a pain because of the temp readings are messed up when unlocked, and i cant be bothered with playing a guessing game.

I want to upgrade my CPU but i am not sure what would be a decent upgrade over my current unlocked CPU at the moment.

Should i wait out for Piledriver?

 

[Trunks9486]

Wait for as long as you can. Piledriver as a minimum to be honest.

 

[ColEx]

Yeah seems logical, i tend to get impatient when upgrades are on the mind though. I just need some other peoples thoughts on it.

 

[Emlyn_Dewar]

You'd be disappointed moving to the current AMD CPUs from what you're on at the moment, definitely wait.

 

[nitram100]

I'm on a 955 and there is literally no point in upgrading right now, the 955 is fast enough to cope with pretty much everything out there.

 

[SlightlyGrilled]

When I unlocked mine, I also got the messed up temperature thing, however I found one of my motherboard's temperature probes was the same as my cpu cores(don't know if that was luck), so I just went off that.

 

[SouthEastBlue]

Don't worry about the messed up core readings when you unlock your CPU, it's the actual CPU temp itself that you need to be looking at anyway.

Also there's not much a quad core Phenom II at 3.2Ghz or above can't do for a gamer/average user, certainly haven't come up against any games that have brought my unlocked CPU to it's knees yet!

 

[ColEx]

I agree with you all, i think ill stick with what i got, everything i throw at my CPU right now is fine performance wise.

Cheers.

 

[Predator]

I'm upgrading from a Phenom II 955 (which I've had for 3 years) today to a 3570k. I have to admitt its always played every game extremely well, but now I'm doing more photoshop work, I could do with the extra grunt.

Hurry up delivery man!