The Athlon x4 is ok. As stated above certainly you can do better. I would recommend as was stated above an FX 6300 or one of the newer athlons. Even the FX 4100 or FX 4300 would be better than the athlon if you can get a decent motherboard and cooler as they are built for overclocking, so you may be able to overclock those to squeeze a little more power out of them. Same with any of the FX processors.