Upgrading CPU and motherboard for up to $200

MMZeroX · Jan 4, 2014

Hello everyone, I want to buy a new processor and a motherboard, and I need your help.

This is my current system:

Gigabyte GA-M61PME-S2P
AMD Athlon x2 7750 2.7 Ghz
AMD Radeon PowerColor HD7750 1GB GDDR5
Western Digital WD10EZEX Blue 1TB
Cooler Master: Extreme Power Plus 500W
4GB DDR2 RAM

I recently bought GPU, hard drive and power supply so now I need a good CPU and motherboard that could go well with the rest of this configuration for $200 or less, maybe even $150 or so, because I might need a new case. I'll also buy DDR3 RAM, but I'll find that easily, so that's not a problem. Thanks in advance.

swifty_morgan · Jan 4, 2014

you'll also need new ram. ddr2 won't work on newer boards. and $150 won't do it.

quantmo · Jan 5, 2014

If you were looking at 150-200 for both things, you would want to up your budget a bit more, That won't do it at all. I've got an FX-6300 and it runs well, doesn't bottleneck any GPU's, maybe a GTX 780 and some SLI/Crossfire setups, I would reccomend it if your going AMD. Or you could go with an 8350 which is better again. But you will need to definitely need to up your budget.

ewok93 · Jan 5, 2014

For ~$80 you can get an M5A97 R2 LE. For $120 you can get a 6300. Your RAM won't work with that. After that you're looking at 35 for 4gb or 70 for 8gb (much better choice).

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