Best AMD AM2/AM2+ CPU

[FatCat]

Hello guys, what is best AM2/AM2+ CPU ? I want upgrade my PC, because now I`m playing with AMD Anthlon X2 5600+ 2.9GHz :\ and I have 40fps on FullHD....


Motherboard: ASUS M2A-VM
CPU: AMD Anthlon X2 5600 2.9GHz
HHD: 1TB 7200rpm
GPU: Nvidia GeForce GT 630
PSI: 400W

[Muppet among Puppets]

The grafic card is a bottle neck

[rotNdude]

Here are the CPUs your motherboard supports

http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/M2AVM/HelpDesk_CPU/

I would start looking for some of these old CPUs on the web sites and see what will be supported on that motherboard.

[Rove]

I'd suggest upgrading motherboard, CPU, GPU and RAM all at once.

*A10-7800 or A10-7850K APU (4 core 3.5 or 3.7 GHz CPU + 737~ GFLOPS GPU together on a CPU style chip)

*FM2+ A75, A78, A85X, or A88X chipset motherboard

*8GB (2*4GB) DDR3-2133 or DDR3-2400 RAM

3 (as CPU and GPU combine together) parts to upgrade 4 parts, the CPU, GPU, motherboard and RAM. If you can't afford that now I suggest consider saving till you can and maybe by then you can get a new release of AMD APU and new RAM or Motherboard also.

Then you get rid of the GT 630 which only does 336 GFLOPS and you will also get rid of the old CPU, RAM and motherboard. They are all holding you back and all the CPUs that go with the motherboard are old and obsolete. Either you could sell those 4 parts or keep them as backup.

[upcoast]

I had a x2 5600 way back when but it started to fall behind on FC2 with GTX280 but san andreas, fear1/2 did fine, GTA IV ran so bad on it, I can't see newer games doing well at all simply because of the architecture of the Windsor and Brisbane chips being about 25% lower than the newer propus core aka x4 640 / x3 450 both are still working in my house.

Problem with the x2 5600 also is anything newer will be held back a lot

http://www.techspot.com/review/783-geforce-gtx-750-ti-vs-radeon-r7-265/page3.html

750ti /7850 budget cards will be held back but for the price they are a lot better than your current GT630.

If $$ an issue there's always ebay, I got my wife a x4 640 $50 shipped .

If you want to rebuild just go i3 or i5 which ever you can afford paired with at least a midrange vid card.

http://www.techspot.com/reviews/graphics-cards/gaming-benchmarks/

Bunch of game benches ^ cpus/ gpus.

[_I_]

or if near a microcenter, you can get a pentium g3220 and cheap board for under $100
http://www.microcenter.com/site/stores/

will destroy the amd apu builds in every way

only advantage of the apu is the gpu on it, but they can be easily beat by a gtx750 or r7 260+ card