Mutant Corn Daemon Poster Messages 605 Mar 6, 2010 #12 ^ That's a big chance to take though. The Athlon will perform better in multi-threaded games, but and any game that uses enough resources to max either processor is probably going to be GPU limited anyway... edit: Looks like it's a tossup on which one performs better. The Athlon wins overall, though: http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/...compare,1396.html?prod[3015]=on&prod[2612]=on (edit: that's a 550 btw, but I wouldn't expect a 555 to be very different.)
^ That's a big chance to take though. The Athlon will perform better in multi-threaded games, but and any game that uses enough resources to max either processor is probably going to be GPU limited anyway... edit: Looks like it's a tossup on which one performs better. The Athlon wins overall, though: http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/...compare,1396.html?prod[3015]=on&prod[2612]=on (edit: that's a 550 btw, but I wouldn't expect a 555 to be very different.)