new vs old

Did anyone else observe, that in all of the newer technologies, Items seem to be better, faster, brighter, but a lot more FRAGILE? A family used their refrigerator for 40 years straight! Finally, they decided to replace it (though it still worked), with a new one. 2 years later, they had...

I have an AMD fx-6300 with my current build, but I feel my new graphics card is severely bottlenecking my cpu (or the other way around). I need to find a new CPU and MOBO for under $250 if possible, and i might also need RAM (as i do respectively have 16gb of ddr3). I was thinking to go intel...