GPU for AMD athlon 2 X2 250

Aakash_8

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I have an AMD athlon 2 X2 250 processor and I am planning to buy a GTX 1050TI for games. Will my CPU support it?
Motherboard- M4A78LT-MLE
PSU-450W
RAM-4Gb ( will upgrade to 8GB soon)
 
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Those CPUs are not compatible with your current motherboard. You would need a new motherboard to support them, and that's also not a good idea because they are dead CPU lines.

Your best bet is to upgrade to to a budget Ryzen or Pentium/i5. But we would need to know your total budget to make any recommendation.

Aakash_8

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So which low price budget CPU you would suggest me to make this happen?
 

Aakash_8

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I am thinking of AMD A6 or FX-6300 or such. What do you think?
 

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Those CPUs are not compatible with your current motherboard. You would need a new motherboard to support them, and that's also not a good idea because they are dead CPU lines.

Your best bet is to upgrade to to a budget Ryzen or Pentium/i5. But we would need to know your total budget to make any recommendation.
 
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Vitric9

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AMD seems to be easier to upgrade while keeping the pc together for the most part. Some AM2 boards could support the 45nm (K10) CPUs in later BIOS revisions. With DDR4 being implemented with Ryzen it won't be possible to do that from the last gen. get the best GPU you can afford. If it is bound heavily by the CPU or not, the bigger, better GPU that you get the more performance you will generally see. Get the better CPU when you can.

Buying a graphics card to match that of an Athlon ii 250 is interesting idea in that of you can build a PC with parts from the athlon ii era for pretty cheap. And later on you can make one of the videos titled, "Gaming PC from 2010, Can it hold up today?" or some such flippery.