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Again... "it's complicated" and "it depends".

If you want a bit of an explanation I'll have a go... but without specific CPUs and specific workloads (i.e. specific games), we can only really speculate.

At a very basic level there are 3 key factors which influence CPU performance:
1) Instructions Per Cycle (IPC): This is essentially how much work each CPU core can complete per clock cycle
2) Frequency: the number of clock cycles per second (measured in Ghz)
3) Number of cores

Frequency and Cores are listed on every CPU product, while IPC is much harder to quantify because it depends entirely on the workload...
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LOL, yeah. You've got DDR3 so that's one thing off the list. Also, a good reason to stick with Haswell (4xxx) series, because the Skylake recommended above (i3-6100) require DDR4 - not compatible, so increased cost on your rig/upgrade.

Are you getting the answers you were looking for on your other thread?
 
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yeah my main question there was if whether my chosen psu is compatible with my mobo so its all okay there
 
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