What would be the best cpu upgrade for gaming(fitting in my budget.)?

Question

I have an FX-6300, and an asus m5a97 le r2.0 and I wanted to know what would be the best cpu upgrade for a better gaming performance without changing my motherboard. I'm looking for the $170 to $250 price range. (Do not suggest intel. The m5a97 has an +am3 socket)

Answer 1

That is a pretty decent motherboard, upgrading to a 990FX motherboard would likely offer a very small performance upgrade over the 970 chipset. (it has higher hyper-transport speed)



The fx6300 is still decent for gaming, you could think of getting a cpu cooler l;ike CM 212 evo or something and overclock it.

The FX8320 often goes on sale for under $120.





You dont list your graphics card. upgrading that will give you the biggest gaming performance increase of all.

Answer 2

i think the rough rule of thumb is that your GPU should not cost more than 1.5 times the new cost of your CPU. beyond that -- you'll likely get bottlenecking problems due to the CPU and more money won't help.



try reading tomshardware.com online and see if they've built anything using that FX-6300 APU -- they'll have sized the GPU correctly to fit.

Answer 3

fx 8320e

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819113376&cm_re=8320E-_-19-113-376-_-Product



cpu cooler

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835856007&cm_re=cpu_cooler-_-35-856-007-_-Product



same power envelope as the fx6300 better performance due to 2 extra cores



at 95 instead of 125 its easier to controll temperatures and prevent throttling the 125 chips of fx run just too hot

Answer 4

A amd fx 8320 or a amd fx 8350 both are compatible with that mobo

Answer 5

thanks