thinking of an CPU upgrade AMD only

smokiestsea

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So I recently mounted my desktop and I wanted to know which CPU would you recommend to reduce bottleneck I am thinking in a fx 8370 but I am not sure here my rig
Mobo- GA-970A-DS3P
CPU- FX 4130 (this is my problem)
GPU- GTX 1060 gigabyte oc windforce
RAM- 8 GB
HDD- 1 TB
PSU- 500w evga
 
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Given the motherboard has a weak power design(4+1 vrm phase) a 125w cpu would be ill advised as they tend to have throttling issues under load. Go for a 95w version like the 8320e or 8370e but those can still hold back a 1060 in some scenarios and the motherboard is not going to allow much if any overclocking.

I reccomend saving your money till you can afford more substantial platform upgrade. Ryzen or Intel

smokiestsea

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Yeah I was thinking on waiting because the price are supposed to drop but I wanted to be sure, some people say that a 8350 would be nice too and well I don't know if go with a 8350 or 8370
 

PaulBlack

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ive had a 50 and loved it. its gonna be £300 for a new rysen mobo n cpu so if thats not an option then get the 83xx it depends on the price difference where you live speed wise there is very little between them so dont spend the extra money better off getting an AIO water cooler for 40 and overclocking it.
 

anti-duck

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Not really sure I'd want to put an 8370 on that motherboard. A lot of people forget that this processor in particular has a default clockspeed and then 2 boost states when only 4 cores are active, this is how AMD gave it a 125w TDP... it actually exceeds that (this applies to ALL AMD CPU's) and on your motherboard (and even though that CPU is in the CPU support list for that motherboard), it will throttle.

I would go for something like an 8320e, 8370e or wait for Zen and see what's on offer.
 

bignastyid

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Given the motherboard has a weak power design(4+1 vrm phase) a 125w cpu would be ill advised as they tend to have throttling issues under load. Go for a 95w version like the 8320e or 8370e but those can still hold back a 1060 in some scenarios and the motherboard is not going to allow much if any overclocking.

I reccomend saving your money till you can afford more substantial platform upgrade. Ryzen or Intel
 
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anti-duck

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Just to add. If you do decide to stick with Vishera, then you might need to do a BIOS update depending on which revision of that motherboard you have.

Oh, and the P at the end of 'DS3' denotes that particular motherboard is supposed to have a digital VRM. I'm not really sure if it's possible to micromanage the aforementioned throttling better or worse in comparison to an analogue VRM.
 

smokiestsea

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Dec 15, 2016
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The thing is I am not working or nothing I am currently studying to be a PC technical so I am very limited at funds I bought this with my first semester student grant now I am going to my second semester, and the student grant will be more minimum I'll probably have like 180 or something that's why I can't do a full upgrade.