Newbie Builder on PC Upgrade

You are looking a whole new system since getting any new fx chip is a bad idea since they are completely beaten by some of the cheapest cpu's out there today.

What is hurting your performance now??
Here is my stock approach:
Some games are graphics limited like fast action shooters.
Others are cpu core speed limited like strategy, sims, and mmo.
Multiplayer with many participants tend to like many threads.

You need to find out which.
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To help clarify your CPU/GPU options, run these two tests:

a) Run YOUR games, but lower your resolution and eye candy.
If your FPS increases, it indicates that your cpu is strong enough to drive a better graphics configuration.
If your FPS stays the same, you are likely more cpu limited.

b) Limit your cpu, either by reducing the OC, or, in windows power management, limit the maximum cpu% to something like 70%.
Go to control panel/power options/change plan settings/change advanced power settings/processor power management/maximum processor state/
This will simulate what a lack of cpu power will do.
Conversely what a 30% improvement in core speed might do.

You should also experiment with removing one or more cores/threads. You can do this in the windows msconfig boot advanced options option.
You will need to reboot for the change to take effect. Set the number of threads to less than you have.
This will tell you how sensitive your games are to the benefits of many threads.
If you see little difference, your game does not need all the threads you have.



It is possible that both tests are positive, indicating that you have a well balanced system,
and both cpu and gpu need to be upgraded to get better gaming FPS.
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If you think your cpu is the culprit, you do not have good options.

FX cores are slow and adding more of them with a FX-8370 is not a big help.

$200 buys you at a minimum, a G4560, 8gb of ddr4 ram and a lga1151 motherboard.
You can upgrade this considerably, or with a larger budget go to ryzen or I5 kaby lake.

If you decide that graphics is more important, make it a big jump or you may be disappointed. Something like a GTX1060

My understanding is that CSGO is largely single threaded and cpu limiting.
FX-4100 has a passmark performance rating of 4054 with a single thread rating of 1221.
FX-8350 is 9012/1532.
G4560 is 5079/2070.

Be careful how you interpret task manager cpu utilizations.
Windows will spread the activity of a single thread over all available threads.
So, if you had a game that was single threaded and cpu bound, it would show up on a quad core processor as 25%
utilization across all 4 threads.

Thing is those 200 points of difference mean very little in terms of performance in cs go. Geting a fx 8350 will really only give you a little bit of extra performance not worth the investment. Best you can do is just oc the fx 4100 and get the same performance as the 8350.

7th gen AMD? Ryzen is the newest AMD platform worth buying. They did release some athlon quad cores, but those are based on older designs and not really worth getting except for a basic machine.