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sindre

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Hello, i have a friend who wants to upgrade his pc, here is a list of the components
Silver power SP ss620m 620w psu
Amd Phenom II x4 955 black edition
Msi 870a g54 socket am3
Kingston ddr3 1333MHz 4 gb kit cl9
Seagate barracuda 7200.12 1 tb sata3.0
Corsair ssd force series# f115, 115gb
Saphire radeon HD6870 1 gb gddr5 pci - Ewould a AMD FX-8350 8-Core fit in his am3 socket or does he need am3 + ?
 
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hes budgit is bigger than i thought, around 600-700 USD, prices are very expensive here in norway and he doesent want to use too much, if u could come up with a decent processor and a fitting motherboard and a gpu and yea :p, he also wants to play battlefield 4 triple monitor without lagg if u catch my drift
 
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No. AM3 motherboard is enough to run all the fx series, but there wont be L3 cache on the cpu
 
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They are specific sockets its like running a LGA1155 on a 1150 it wont work.
 
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Fx 6300 works with my am3 motherboard. The CPU doesnt have L3 cache and thats it.
 
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Hold on I will see what I can do.
 
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pure luck then and having no l3 cache is loosing a lot off power
i would suggest an fx 8320 with an new motherboard if he wants a new cpu.
 
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PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: Intel Core i5-3570 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor ($194.99 @ Newegg)
Motherboard: ASRock Z77 Extreme3 ATX LGA1155 Motherboard ($115.91 @ Newegg)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($73.99 @ Newegg)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 660 2GB Video Card ($199.99 @ Amazon)
Power Supply: XFX 750W 80 PLUS Bronze Certified ATX12V / EPS12V Power Supply ($89.99 @ NCIX US)
Total: $674.87
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-10-03 14:04 EDT-0400)

MSI = Junk...sorry to be so blunt but they have the faultiest motherboards I have ever seen out of a company that makes motherboards, stay with ASrock or ASUS....those are top tier motherboard companies.

As for your RAM it needs to be upgraded to 8 gb thats probably why you are lagging a bit.

For your CPU an i5 will severely outweigh a FX-8350 in gaming and performance as long as the applications don't use more then 5+ cores (98% of programs/games don't)

Your Video Card needs a serious overhaul as well....a 660 GTX will outperform that card and if you SLI them you wont have to worry about Micro-shutter and get amazing performance.

Power-supply: Don't waste your money on a bad power supply like the one you have listed...you dont want all those components getting fried because of a faulty wire, this power supply will be much better.

Also please remember to select your best answer so that others may learn from your thread. Remember that you can contact me anytime about any questions or concerns you might have about things in the future. Thank you for your time and have a pleasant day/night.
 
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Hey again, and thanks for the help, here in norway parts are very expensive an he cant order from newegg and shops like that. So i put together some parts from what you sendt me and i wondered if this will work together, cant use more money than this, as i said, very expensive here .. heres the list
EVGA GeForce GTX 660 2GB PhysX CUDA
Intel Core i5-3570 Processor
MSI Z77A-G43, Socket-1155
Corsair CX 600W PSU
Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600MHz 8GB Cl9
 
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Hmmm...i dont much care for either gigabyte or msi, but i may be a little bias since i use nothing but asus motherboards anyways. I don't know i give people an asrock and asus recommendation just cause (you never know what they are really going to do with it) but they have less failures under overclocking and stress.
 
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