Would buying a dual core help my FPS massively?

[Normalcey]

I have had this computer for about 4 years now, bought it and upgraded most of the parts. New power supply, graphics card(9800GT) 4 gigs of ddr2 ram, but I have not touched the CPU cause 1. I break things 2. You cant buy them in stores in Canada..........ANYWHERE. I prefer to buy them in store, its instant, I hate waiting.

Anyways, I get pretty sketchy frame rates in games. For example, just got Bad Company 2, average FPS around 20, but it drops dramatically sometimes.

My video card is not awesome, but it shouldnt have anything to do with it on low, so all is pointing back to my CPU.

Would upgrading it to a dual core this one to be exact (the one im considering buying) http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103694 give me a stable frame rate? For sure? So to clarify my system specs are=

CPU= AMD Athlon LE-1640 2.71 GHz
GPU= 9800GT
4 gigs of ram
Windows XP home

 

[Normalcey]

hmm with that mobo / 4core cpu combo you sent that mobo has a lot of bad reviews.. so many DOA's and apparently really terrible customer service. Should I take this to heart? lol

 

[welshmousepk]

what reviews? maybe customer reviews (which cannot be trusted anyway), but press reviews of the board are very good. all gigabyte boards are generally of a higher quality than others since they use 2oz copper and high-life voltage regulators.

i've used that exact mobo and found it to be very good, i only upgraded because i wanted ACC and a second PCIe slot.

 

[sanchz]

DOAs in those reviews are a very little proportion of the whole. Remember, if you select only the worst reviews, then ANY product will appear to be crap, but remind that they are just 10 bad reviews out of 400.