New CPU and Motherboard for around £200

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Hi, its finally the 8th console generation and time to upgrade my CPU. And I will probably need a new board as well. I want to upgrade by the end of the year, and get the CPU and Motherboard for around £200 I may be able to stretch a little further. I'm a small scale gaming youtuber and need to be able to render, play games, record gameplay and do this without frustration and with low temps. I also do not plan to overclock. Also I want to upgrade in the future so this new CPU must be able to take a better GPU. I have a few questions first though.
1. What CPU should I get? (My first thought was an I5 4670k or fx 8 core)
2. What motherboard? (If I get the I5 I will not have that much of a budget for a motherboard)
3. What do AMD offer in this category?
4. What is the best CPU my PC could take before Bottlenecking?
5. How hard is it to swap Motherboards?
6. Will I need to buy Thermal Paste or is it pre applied?
7. And what CPU could I get for around this money in the intel first generation and would it be the same?
Here are my specs:
Corsair CX 500W Intel Core i3 540 3.06GHz
Gigabyte H55M-UD2H Intel H55 (Socket 1156) PCI-Express DDR3 Motherboard
Xigmatek Dark Knight CPU Cooler Corsair XMS3 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 (Soon I'm getting more)
1600MHz Dual Channel Kit
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache
Gainward GTX 560 ti 1024MB GDDR5
Realtek 7.1 Channel Sound (On-Board)
LG DVD+/-RW SATA Drive

Thanks.
 
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1. FX-8350 for that budget definitely.
2. For the FX-8350,ASUS M5A99X EVO R2.0(expand your budget by 20 quid if you can)
PCPartPicker part list: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/9gjcf7

CPU: AMD FX-8350 4.0GHz 8-Core Processor (£124.40 @ CCL Computers)
Motherboard: Asus M5A99X EVO R2.0 ATX AM3+ Motherboard (£94.99 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £219.39

3.AMD FX are better for editing than the i5 because they have more cores.i5 is certainly better in gaming(even the i5 4460 will beat it),but for editing,at this budget,AMD FX is the way to go.
4.FX-8350 will not bottleneck any single graphics card(except the graphics cards that have two GPUs,so GTX 690,GTX Titan,TitanZ,R9 295x2 and so on.) OC it to 4.5 GHz and you will get...
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1. FX-8350 for that budget definitely.
2. For the FX-8350,ASUS M5A99X EVO R2.0(expand your budget by 20 quid if you can)
PCPartPicker part list: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/9gjcf7

CPU: AMD FX-8350 4.0GHz 8-Core Processor (£124.40 @ CCL Computers)
Motherboard: Asus M5A99X EVO R2.0 ATX AM3+ Motherboard (£94.99 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £219.39

3.AMD FX are better for editing than the i5 because they have more cores.i5 is certainly better in gaming(even the i5 4460 will beat it),but for editing,at this budget,AMD FX is the way to go.
4.FX-8350 will not bottleneck any single graphics card(except the graphics cards that have two GPUs,so GTX 690,GTX Titan,TitanZ,R9 295x2 and so on.) OC it to 4.5 GHz and you will get amazing performance.
5.Not hard,but you need to be careful when putting the MoBo in the case that you don't set it on a standoff.And don't forget to install the I/O shield at the back first. :)
6. CPUs don't come with pre-applied Thermal Paste.
7.i5 4460 would be about the same price as the FX-8350,but it's not good for editing,only for gaming.

Also,upgrade your PSU in the future,the CX500 isn't a good quality one.
Hope this helps. :)
 
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What do you mean by standoff? and any thermal paste you would recommend? Also I thought on the stock heatsink with the FX 6300 came with thermal paste.
And I know about my PSU. That would be my next upgrade.

 
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Standoffs look like this:
http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg220/bdrem1/Parts/Standoff/STANDOFFM3Alarge-10-2-BD.jpg
And they are there so the MoBo doesn't get grounded on the steel case.They basically lift it above the case a bit so it stays alive.
Oh,and it does with pre-applied Thermal Paste,but I wouldn't use the stock cooler over your Xigmatek Dark Knight,it's great.
I would recommend Arctic Silver MX4 or Arctic Silver 5. Best Thermal Paste IMO.
 
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I assume these will come with the new board or I can use my old ones and will the I/O shield come with it? Also I probably will not be overclocking until I get my new GPU in about 18 months probably a 760 but this depends on prices and AMD also the nvidia 900s. So the stock cooler should be good enough for this for now? And could my cooler work for it?

Thanks.
 
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Sorry I was saying in a long winded way I won't overclock for a while so will the stock cooler do? Or could I use my current one? (I didn't think it was actually too good)

Also do I need to install new BIOS or anything before changing mobo?

 
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