{Solved}Best bang for your buck processor

[halfstrike]

Looking for a list or a few suggestions for processors that offer the most for what the costs are. to keep the suggestions under control lets say in a 500-600 dollar budget for a gaming rig

 

[batuchka]

The Rana 450 is Toms poster child for one of the best bang for buck gaming chips

Best Gaming CPUs For The Money: November 2010
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/best-gaming-cpu-core-i3-athlon-ii-x4,2791.html

This is the fastest triple-core Athlon II available, and it sports an ideal combination of three execution cores, a high clock rate, a low price, and respectable overclocking headroom. Despite the deceptively low buy-in, this processor delivers some serious gaming capability. It is such a great gaming CPU, in fact, that it almost renders most of the CPUs in the $100 to $130 range overkill.

What $458AR could buy ya ^^