What CPU upgrade should I get? (Futureproof)

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Specs:

MOBO: ASRock Extreme3 R2.0
CPU: AMD FX 8120 (No OC)
GPU: MSI R9 390 Gaming
RAM: Corsair Vengeance 1866mhz 16GB CL9 ram in DC
HDD: Some basic stuff
CASE: NZXT Phantom
PSU: EVGA Supernova 750 G2 (As the name suggests, it's a 750W PSU.)

I'm looking for the best price performance CPU for my motherboard, but if there is a CPU so good for what I need, that switching motherboard is worth it, please do tell.
I'm purely going for Gaming, but Skype, Dual-monitors and possible streaming will be done here.
Don't really have a ''budget'' in the sense of limitations. But would prefer to keep it under 400-500.
Remember! I'm looking for the best CPU price performance.

Hopefully this is enough information

Thanks in advance!
 
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http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/cpu-hierarchy,4312.html

You can easily do a 2-tier upgrade by replacing your Bulldozer 8120 with any of the Piledriver 83xx chips -- although, since your board can take the full-power chips, I would recommend that you avoid the 8320E & 8370E, as they're downclocked version designed to work in the older 95W boards. For your system, even getting the 8320 gets you faster base & Turbo core speeds, plus it can be OC'd to get nearly the same performance as the 95xx series; if you don't plan to OC the chip, then an 8350 or 8370 will give you a little more performance. Note that, as long as your current BIOS supports them, you can just drop the chips in & at worst Windows may prompt for a CPU driver...

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For your motherboard, any AMD 8300 series CPU is probably going to be the best bang for the buck. Obviously, I'd recommend finding a model that's unlocked to do some overclocking if you feel it's not quite up to snuff with the games you are running.

That being said, there isn't a huge step up in performance from the 8100's to the 8300's. My recommendation is to save that money and look to upgrade from an AMD to an Intel CPU/motherboard. Any Intel i5 will run circles around that setup.
And for $400-500, you should be able to purchase an i5-4690K and a motherboard that will use your DDR3 ram.
 
There's no real upgrade you can do since all the higher end "octa" core FX CPUs are just overclocked versions of their "lower end" counterparts. Maybe do a cooling + motherboard upgrade and overclock the CPU. For cooling I'd recommend Cryorig's AIOs as they include a little fan mounted on the waterblock that can help cool the VRMs (and thus improve OC stability).

Or you could upgrade to a Haswell i5 + new motherboard and re-use the RAM.
 

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http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/cpu-hierarchy,4312.html

You can easily do a 2-tier upgrade by replacing your Bulldozer 8120 with any of the Piledriver 83xx chips -- although, since your board can take the full-power chips, I would recommend that you avoid the 8320E & 8370E, as they're downclocked version designed to work in the older 95W boards. For your system, even getting the 8320 gets you faster base & Turbo core speeds, plus it can be OC'd to get nearly the same performance as the 95xx series; if you don't plan to OC the chip, then an 8350 or 8370 will give you a little more performance. Note that, as long as your current BIOS supports them, you can just drop the chips in & at worst Windows may prompt for a CPU driver update. No need to worry about reinstalling Windows.

Note that at worst you'll only need to shell out $150-200 tops for the upgrade. If you're willing to spend more, & are willing to take the time to reinstall Windows on your system, then I would strongly suggest that you do a Skylake build. For one, the performance is going to beat any Haswell builds. For another, you'll get access to DDR4. And finally, the upgrade path for a Haswell build is going to be as limited as an FX build, since the stock of Haswell chips will only continue to diminish now that they're no longer in production. A system based on the i5-6500 (one of the top picks, http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/best-cpus,3986.html), a Gigabyte Z170-HD3 board (in case you go for an unlocked CPU to OC in the future, another topi pick: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/best-intel-amd-motherboard,3902.html), & 16GB of DDR4 RAM will run you about $350 (http://pcpartpicker.com/p/wCTVvK), & let you reuse your PSU, GPU & other hardware.
 
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+1 on everyone saying don't bother with a new AMD FX CPU. AM3+ is dead, and you used the words future proof. Anything you buy for that board is not future proof at all. The design is from 2012, even the fastest FX gets bested by mid-low range current model Intel Skylake CPU's. You're throwing good money after bad.

Spdragoo's suggestion : http://pcpartpicker.com/p/wCTVvK would decimate anything you could do with an FX cpu and your current board, and the best most efficient use of your cash.
 

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No sane being would throw out PC components that are worth money, no need to take my words to the most literal sense xP
 

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No, don't throw it out. If nothing else, it can be your backup PC, a 2nd PC for when a friend comes over, a large-scale HTPC, or even just as a file server for your home network. Unless they're broken, or simply won't work at all in a new system (i.e. when I was going through computer parts 5 years ago & found an old ISA sound card & an AGP GPU in my stash), you can always find a use for them.