I ran an opteron 140 until I could afford an FX-51 But yeah, you should see a huge performance leap, so if your current rig feels remotely usable by your standards, a new machine for feel that way for a long time.Well right now as someone with a fairly old build, I can either buy Intel which is *almost* a dead end platform, or AMD which *is* a dead-end platform. Either way, I don't think I've upgraded just the CPU on a board since like, the Opteron, so it's not a huge deal.