0m3g4

agreed with most others in this thread *excluding the nah sayer*.
in terms of performance I do know this, when I was doing a build for a friend the kuma core clock for clock in games had around a 10% improvement.
now in other apps not so much of a jump, but I bought this for my g/f's rig and it is definitely better than the 5200+ at 3.2ghz, plus it has taken less volts to get it there.
If you cannot go for a phII then this would be a worthy upg.

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darthspartan

yep its going to my gaming rig.I do some vid editing but not much so the extra core is not really worth it.

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mastertrixter

dude. no point whatsoever. save ur money and get a better mb and a phenom 2 quad so ur not bottle necking ur gpu. the 7750 is almost as bad of a bottleneck as ur 3600

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eclipseaudio4

Your board is am2+ so you can put a AM3 CPU in there save up and slam one of those babies in!

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darthspartan

I can put a am3 cpu in am2+ boards. this is something i did not know 160 for Am3 chip on egg so thats $100 more than this chip it might be a while till i could do this

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gonX

Bottlenecks are overrated. Just get a larger monitor

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Tainok

Better mobo + PHII is probably out of his budget, if you haven't bothered reading the thread...

7750 Kuma will do well. Much better than the 3200+.

As for needing a quad core to not bottleneck a video card... heh.

Also, I'm pretty sure AM2+ != AM3 and your board needs to specifically support AM3.