upgrade Looking to upgrade my current CPU and Mother Board (if needed)

[Draconid]

Hello, 

Im currently looking for an upgrade from my CPU, but currently, I have little to no knowledge when it comes to CPU's.

I game often and currently, I am finding my CPU to start to struggle against some of the games of play (which include: overwatch, planet side [Can no longer play this without insane lag] and many other games,) I have no intention of editing and I'm just looking for something that can help me run newer games that are coming out and at a decent performance in the games I've currently got. I also don't have the biggest budget in the world (below £120 ideally[for the CPU])

 

My current PC's Specifications:

Motherboard: - ASUS A55BM-E

CPU: AMD A8-6600K

RAM: 8 GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 797MHz

Graphics: Nvida GTX 1050 OC 2GB

PSU: 650V

 

 

[genexis_x]

Find used Intel Haswell CPU (i5/i7/Xeon) and mobo

Also try lowering video settings since the 1050 is a not so powerful GPU.

[iRileyx]

You're gonna need more than £120 to get a decent upgrade, even upgrading to the best FM2 socket cpu available so you can keep your motherboard and ram, it'll still be slow as hell and not worth the cost.

[EPPHO]

For that money you barely can get G4560 and some cheap motherboard and you have to get DDR4 RAM. Save more money

[Legolessed]

13 minutes ago, Draconid said:

Hello, 

Im currently looking for an upgrade from my CPU, but currently, I have little to no knowledge when it comes to CPU's.

I game often and currently, I am finding my CPU to start to struggle against some of the games of play (which include: overwatch, planet side [Can no longer play this without insane lag] and many other games,) I have no intention of editing and I'm just looking for something that can help me run newer games that are coming out and at a decent performance in the games I've currently got. I also don't have the biggest budget in the world (below £120 ideally.)

 

My current PC's Specifications:

Motherboard: - ASUS A55BM-E

CPU: AMD A8-6600K

RAM: 8 GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 797MHz

Graphics: Nvida GTX 1050 OC 2GB

PSU: 650V

 

 

I know a lot of people say don't go for Xeons but I built my computer for $120 and it has a quad core 3.4ghz Xeon 10gb of ram and an r7 250 (I know I need to upgrade that) but the Xeon performs very admirably for the price. So I would say find a cheap Xeon on eBay and you may get 8+ cores with that budget.

[Draconid]

10 minutes ago, RKRiley said:

You're gonna need more than £120 to get a decent upgrade, even upgrading to the best FM2 socket cpu available so you can keep your motherboard and ram, it'll still be slow as hell and not worth the cost.

 

What if I spent £120 solely on the CPU? and find whatever motherboard that's compatible with that CPU?

[Legolessed]

Just now, frozeNNN said:

For that money you barely can get G4560 and some cheap motherboard and you have to get DDR4 RAM. Save more money

What if they go used. You can easily get something on eBay that would vastly outperform an a8 CPU. The sacrifice is ddr3 but honestly At this budget ddr3 is fine

[Legolessed]

1 minute ago, Draconid said:

What if I spent £120 solely on the CPU? and find whatever motherboard that's compatible with that CPU?

Go used mate. At that budget check out the used market

[Draconid]

Just now, Legolessed said:

Go used mate. At that budget check out the used market

Okay Thanks