Is AMD Athlon x3 455 @ 3.3Ghz better than Core 2 Duo e7400 @ 2.8 Ghz for Dolphin?

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(03-09-2012, 12:28 PM)PaRaDoX_94 Wrote: what if I unlock the hidden core to make it a phenom? (in case that the core is not damaged)
and my current motherboard can't overclock the cpu

Doesn't make any difference , dolphin only need 2 cores . The Athlon has terrible low-L2 caches : 1.5MB which is no good for dolphin
You're downgrading not upgrading
IMO buy a motherboard then overclock the hell out of E7400 . I bought Gigabyte G41MT-S2PT for only 44$
Or just get Z68 mobo + Pentium Sandy Bridge G860 which is equivalent to the heavy overclocked E8600 , you'll be able to upgrade to Ivy Bridge later