My old Core 2 6550 finally shit the bed, probably the past 4 years of running it at ~3ghz on the stock cooler finally took its affect, plus the case had horrible ventilation so that probably had something to do with it
I temporarily using a comp from here at work with a Dual Core Athlon 6000+, actually runs better than the 6550 did.
THe Phenom II 965 is only 140 bucks, vs the i5 thats around $200… and the i7 which is about 300, and from some of the benchmarks I’ve been looking at its pretty close to the i7-950
AMD’s don’t overclock as well, but Ima try and keep it stock for a little bit.