Question Is minorCPU upgrade worth it?

[ken h]

I have an older Gateway laptop, NV53A, that has a AMD Phenom II X3 N830, 3 core 2.1 Ghz, 1.5 L2 cache.

Would a Turion II N570, 2 core 2.7 Ghz, 2 MB L2 cache be worth the time and $11 to upgrade?

I'm looking to get better streaming video performance.

 

[DSzymborski]

You'd be essentially swapping out a little bit of multi-core performance for a little bit of single-core performance. I don't really see the point.

 

[SamirD]

It's going to be close as losing a core may have os performance issues depending on what you're running. But the single thread performance is a pretty good boost so video would be faster:
http://www.cpu-world.com/Compare/14...0_vs_AMD_Turion_II_Dual-Core_Mobile_N570.html