What is a "good" CPU for a FM2+ socket motherboard for a tight budget?

[the law]

I won't have a lot of money for a while to save up for a new motherboard that holds a LGA socket cuz those go for over 100 bucks and i don't wanna do that as cheap as that sounds. I just want to do a simple CPU change from my trash AMD one that isn't so good at all to decent FM2+ CPU thats under 100.

If you have any suggestions please let me know!

Specs:

GPU: G1 Gigabyte GTX 970

CPU: AMD A8-7600 Radeon R7

Motherboard: ASRock FM2A58M-VG3+ || FM2+ socket

[Omega]

FM2 is an ancient socket. There is no CPU worth buying on it, this is all 6 year old stuff and rebrands.

Even the best FM2 CPUs don't even hold a candle to modern budget AMD and Intel CPUs.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

You already have basically the best CPU that socket offers.
All FM2 are slower then Intel Pentium anyways.

It's time to think about a new system.

You can re-use old Drives and the 970 GPU

Best bet would be Intel B360 Board + 1x 8GB DDR4 + i3-8100
Will be miles ahead in performance than what you have now.

[the law]

Bad_Motha eredeti hozzászólása:

You already have basically the best CPU that socket offers.
All FM2 are slower then Intel Pentium anyways.

It's time to think about a new system.

You can re-use old Drives and the 970 GPU

Best bet would be Intel B360 Board + 1x 8GB DDR4 + i3-8100
Will be miles ahead in performance than what you have now.

Thanks bro i really apreciate that! Can i reuse my ram sticks or will it bottle neck?? I have 2x 4gb DDR3 ram

[Bad 💀 Motha]

You could basically just keep what you have and upgrade to newer Motherboard + CPU + DDR4 RAM; unfortunately nothing modern gen uses DDR3 anymore.

If your Case is MicroATX (4 slots in the rear) then look at:
AMD Ryzen 1400 or better CPU + B350 Chipset Motherboard
-or-
Intel i3-8100 or better CPU + B360 chipset Motherboard


You would want to reinstall your Windows OS fresh though if you do such an upgrade.
And you will want to use Windows 10 64bit on any modern gen hardware also.

[the law]

Bad_Motha eredeti hozzászólása:

You could basically just keep what you have and upgrade to newer Motherboard + CPU + DDR4 RAM; unfortunately nothing modern gen uses DDR3 anymore.

If your Case is MicroATX (4 slots in the rear) then look at:
AMD Ryzen 1400 or better CPU + B350 Chipset Motherboard
-or-
Intel i3-8100 or better CPU + B360 chipset Motherboard

Ight so basically just the stuff you suggested, I have a Thorex ironside PC. I'm going to most likely go with that motherboard but there are signifigantly cheaper i3's right? i've seen some go for as low as 50 or 60.

[Dr. Fronkensteen]

what the ♥♥♥♥ richard eredeti hozzászólása:

Bad_Motha eredeti hozzászólása:

You could basically just keep what you have and upgrade to newer Motherboard + CPU + DDR4 RAM; unfortunately nothing modern gen uses DDR3 anymore.

If your Case is MicroATX (4 slots in the rear) then look at:
AMD Ryzen 1400 or better CPU + B350 Chipset Motherboard
-or-
Intel i3-8100 or better CPU + B360 chipset Motherboard

Ight so basically just the stuff you suggested, I have a Thorex ironside PC. I'm going to most likely go with that motherboard but there are signifigantly cheaper i3's right? i've seen some go for as low as 50 or 60.

The earlier generation I3s that you may have seen are only dual cores. The reason the 8100 is recommended is because it is a quad.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Yes you're not getting any CPU worth using below around $100 ranges any time soon.
Anything that cheap is useless 2-Core stuff.


Here

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/z9CZ29
or
https://pcpartpicker.com/list/jQdGjy

[the law]

Dr. Fronkensteen eredeti hozzászólása:

what the ♥♥♥♥ richard eredeti hozzászólása:

Ight so basically just the stuff you suggested, I have a Thorex ironside PC. I'm going to most likely go with that motherboard but there are signifigantly cheaper i3's right? i've seen some go for as low as 50 or 60.

The earlier generation I3s that you may have seen are only dual cores. The reason the 8100 is recommended is because it is a quad.

ohh that makes sense

Bad_Motha eredeti hozzászólása:

Yes you're not getting any CPU worth using below around $100 ranges any time soon.
Anything that cheap is useless 2-Core stuff.


Here

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/z9CZ29
or
https://pcpartpicker.com/list/jQdGjy

thanks means a lot!