Which is better overall.Also, do you agree that the i3 is like a 4 core virtually because of hyper threading. I'm really looking for which processor has the best performance on single threaded applications.Thanks
Bulldozer 4100 is a reasonably good AM3+ board, it will support a wide range of hardware and CPUs it will handle the two that you are looking at well. Between the AMD Phenom x4 960T (which it is not a phenom II by the way) and the Intel i3 2120, the choice here is clear, the AMD is better able to handle large amounts of processing jobs, it can multitask and do many things at once and that is because it has the quad core design. The i3 however as good as it is and it is faster overall in the GHZ realm, is still slower in power and performance and it has a horrible track record historically when compared alongside the processor you are asking about from AMD. If you really want a good chip try going even higher up the scale, go for either an i7 or another AMD chip at a greater and higher level.
if you go with i3 you have the option to later upgrade to i5 or i7
properly, i exploit Pacemark at present as a benchmarker for cpu's...you recognize of direction, that each and every benchmarker is relative...yet it does supply you some thought of overall performance. On Saturday, I in comparison each and every of the present retail style cpu's (no longer the server varieties from Intel or AMD, purely the retail varieties). This secure a study of the Octacore, Hexcore and Quad's. i did no longer think approximately duo or twin cores or any monocores. The stunning undertaking i found out became the LOW LOW score for the hot FX-4100, with a benchmark around some thing like 5000. i became like, properly, bowled over on the low score and puzzled why AMD could sell a putz cpu like this...i assume it may desire to artwork in a gradual laptop....The Phenom II 955 got here out fairly stable for AMD cpu's (on as much as the 980) and that i could type the 980 at approximately an Intel i5 2500K style of. So in all danger, the Phenom II 955 is in all danger on par with or basically slightly much less appearing thanthe i3 is. i don't have my benchmark study with me, yet i'm going on reminiscence here. So terrific to worst then... i3 is extra useful than 955 is a bargain extra useful than 4100.
