help me find a CPU upgrade

giorgi_14

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i have a Asus P8H61-M LX3 R2.0 Micro ATX LGA1155 Motherboard
and i currently have an intel core i3-2120
i am under strict budget of 110$ and i have been tasked to upgrade to a quad-core as the "family tech support prodigy". is that possible?(i would prefer if it could run well while gaming)... anyway if its possible could you link me anything like that? i don't know if other socket sized CPUs can fit into LGA1155 slot so i thought you guys could help me since i have no idea how to do this and apparently i'm the only person fit to ask for help for some reason. anyway, they only trust amazon.com but i might be able to convince them to buy from newegg or something else that has a good enough reputation...
sorry for unloading this onto you guys but i can't make heads or tails of this yet
 
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Seanie280672

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eBay is going to be your cheapest option rather than brand new, as LGA1155 is basically Sandy Bridge, and its getting on a bit now, with your budget, you can either get an i5 which is a quad core or an i7 for approx $20 more which is a quad core with Hyper threading, 4 physical cores, 8 logical cores.

Just make sure your bios on your board is upto date and supports those chips.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Intel-Core-i7-2600-3-40GHz-SR00B-Quad-Core-Socket-LGA1155-Sandy-Bridge-CPU-/112351078381?hash=item1a28a567ed:g:eek:p4AAOSwhQhY2s9J

http://www.ebay.com/itm/i7-2600-Sandy-Bridge-LGA-1155-CPU-Turbo-up-to-3-8Ghz-/322464494982?hash=item4b1461b586:g:V4wAAOSwtfhYqJiq

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Intel-Core-i7-2600-3-40GHz-1MB-8MB-Socket-LGA1155-Sandy-Bridge-CPU-SR00B-/352019290431?hash=item51f5fc193f:g:0nMAAOSwc-tY3q5l



 
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