Definitely. Old AM3 chips are pretty cheap on the second hand market. You could upgrade to a much faster Phebom II X6 1100T for about $80.
You would pick up an extra two processor cores and a respectable performance gain over the Phenom II X4 965: http://cpuboss.com/cpus/AMD-Phenom-II-X6...
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