Upgrading my processor: How good is good enough? AMD only.

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I have recently aquired a radeon 7790, now I need to upgrade my processor. Been looking at the FX series (6350 especially). Not planning on 1080p gaming, but the option to do so would be nice. I am looking to game with the highest graphics, but I am on a budget. I am willing to save up as much as I have to, but being a teenager means it will be slow going.

Once I upgrade my processor, I will also need to upgrade the heatsink, fan, paste, etc, so recommendations for that would be nice. Right now, I can overclock my 7790 to 1200 mhz without it getting very how even when gaming, (getting the Asus version with the Direct cu II cooler was worth it) although the fps drops considerably so I don't overclock it to that extent.

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the 8 core fx 8320 is ~$40-50 cheaper than the 8350 and you can easily overclock to the 8350 specs and beyond. Use the money saved to get the hyper 212 cpu cooler.

Since you're going to crossfire, you're going to need a 990fx motherboard that supports crossfire, and idealy has two x16 slots, x8 wouldn't be horrible but not ideal. You might be fine with x8 slots in crossfire on the mobo because the 7790 isn't the best out there, but it's basically what's in the new Xbox One console so you could be fine with just one of them for years to come.


Since you already have a 7790, buy an 8320 (6300 is even cheaper at about ~$110 and can clock high as well with 212 cooler). And then get a good 990fx motherboard that supports crossfire
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need to know motherboard so we can recomend you a processor and current processor would be good as well
 
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I am not limited by my current motherboard, if I need a new one then so be it. It has an FM2 socket, so I planned to get a new one anyway. I have an A8-5500 quad-core processor.

Other than that, I plan on crossfireing two 7790's and I am not sure if my 430w Corsair can handle it (If you ask Newegg, then no, if you ask just about any other power supply calculator, then yes). If you want to give advice on crossfire, then I would like for you to have experience with it. More than half of all people that diss crossfire have never even used it, only going on what other people say. This creates a viscous cycle, as everyone heard from a reliable source that it sucks. It may very well suck though, I guess I will find out soon enough if I but the card.
 
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The A8 shouldn't be much of a bottleneck for a card like the 7790. It is however a bottleneck for a card like a 7970 or R9 290(X) I would suggest getting a new GPU- but if that's not what you want to do the 8350 is a good CPU (I used it for a year and never felt like it was slow) and also pick up a Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3 or a nice Asus motherboard. The 8350 is a good CPU, even though Intel people say it sucks. But I would HIGHLY suggest upgrading the GPU first. Sell it; they're going for around $160 on ebay.

 
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the 8 core fx 8320 is ~$40-50 cheaper than the 8350 and you can easily overclock to the 8350 specs and beyond. Use the money saved to get the hyper 212 cpu cooler.

Since you're going to crossfire, you're going to need a 990fx motherboard that supports crossfire, and idealy has two x16 slots, x8 wouldn't be horrible but not ideal. You might be fine with x8 slots in crossfire on the mobo because the 7790 isn't the best out there, but it's basically what's in the new Xbox One console so you could be fine with just one of them for years to come.


Since you already have a 7790, buy an 8320 (6300 is even cheaper at about ~$110 and can clock high as well with 212 cooler). And then get a good 990fx motherboard that supports crossfire
 
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