Budget Upgrade

[wolverineweapon]

I am looking to upgrade my cpu. it is a small upgrade to limit or lessen the bottleneck on my gtx 1070. I currently have a GTX 1070 with a laughable fx 6100. I want to keep the price at a minimum. I was looking at the fx 9590 bc this would help on the budget end as I would not need a new motherboard or ram. but I was watching some benchmarks and the i5-3570k seems to beat the fx 9590 on cpu intensive games like GTAV. I am heavily leaning toward the i5-3570k bc with a new mobo it will cost about the same as the fx chip and it consumes less energy. with both choices I can keep my ddr3 ram. The question is is there a better choice that will still keep me in the budget of about 140$ remember if its a new socket type from the AM3+ the motherboard and chip will need to fit in the budget together. it seems I can get a i5- 3570k for about 100$ 

[The Sloth]

look for an older OEM pc with 2nd or 3rd gen i7. 

[wolverineweapon]

15 minutes ago, nerdslayer1 said:

look for an older OEM pc with 2nd or 3rd gen i7. 

Sorry I am looking on ebay I see mostly i3's and some i5's not many fall in the price range do you know of a better place to look?

[That_PC_Kid]

Go for a cheap Dell Optiplex with a 3rd/4th generation i5. The FX series has very poor IPC.

[dizmo]

Don't even think about getting a 9590. It's a horrible product, and unless you have room in your budget to liquid cool it (and possibly a new motherboard if you don't have a high end one) you're just asking for issues.

Personally I'd scour Reddit etc for an older Xeon, and run that. Basically a clocked i7 but they're usually cheaper.

 

Welcome to the forum!

[wolverineweapon]

Just now, dizmo said:

Don't even think about getting a 9590. It's a horrible product, and unless you have room in your budget to liquid cool it (and possibly a new motherboard if you don't have a high end one) you're just asking for issues.

Personally I'd scour Reddit etc for an older Xeon, and run that. Basically a clocked i7 but they're usually cheaper.

 

Thanks everything about my pc screams high end gaming accept the mistake aka fx-6100 that was an uneducated buy from a long time ago. 

[dizmo]

4 minutes ago, wolverineweapon said:

Thanks everything about my pc screams high end gaming accept the mistake aka fx-6100 that was an uneducated buy from a long time ago. 

Honestly I'd consider just buying an LGA1151 motherboard and throwing a G4560 on there until you can afford a better CPU.

You should get better performance, and you don't lock yourself into very old hardware, or a completely dead upgrade path. It's against the rules to post eBay links, but there's tons of LGA1151 boards on there lately, and mid to high end ones are selling for around $50US.

[wolverineweapon]

1 minute ago, dizmo said:

Honestly I'd consider just buying an LGA1151 motherboard and throwing a G4560 on there until you can afford a better CPU.

You should get better performance, and you don't lock yourself into very old hardware, or a completely dead upgrade path.

wow according to this video the g4560 out performs the fx 8350 in games    

 

 

[dizmo]

6 minutes ago, wolverineweapon said:

wow according to this video the g4560 out performs the fx 8350 in games   

Yessir. Gotta keep in mind those 83xx series processors are based on what..6 year old tech by now?

This video shows that your 1070 shouldn't be bottlenecked in most titles (I think, I can't quite recall). Worth a watch.

 

[OptionalNick]

On 7/20/2017 at 8:54 PM, wolverineweapon said:

I am looking to upgrade my cpu. it is a small upgrade to limit or lessen the bottleneck on my gtx 1070. I currently have a GTX 1070 with a laughable fx 6100. I want to keep the price at a minimum. I was looking at the fx 9590 bc this would help on the budget end as I would not need a new motherboard or ram. but I was watching some benchmarks and the i5-3570k seems to beat the fx 9590 on cpu intensive games like GTAV. I am heavily leaning toward the i5-3570k bc with a new mobo it will cost about the same as the fx chip and it consumes less energy. with both choices I can keep my ddr3 ram. The question is is there a better choice that will still keep me in the budget of about 140$ remember if its a new socket type from the AM3+ the motherboard and chip will need to fit in the budget together. it seems I can get a i5- 3570k for about 100$ 

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819113327 my cousin ahs been running this... i would recommend good air flow though because it can get hot on some heavy tasks with the stock cooler