Best cpu upgrade

[charles.main13]

I have a GA-990XA-UD3 and currently have a 1055T 6 core clocked at 3.5 ghz i am looking to stream. I cannot really afford a new intel rig would a upgrade to a fx chip help?

 

[RememberThe5th]

Which revision of motherboard you have(bottom left of motherboard like rev.)
I think FX are obsolete nowdays, but you could go for ryzen 5 4C/8t or 1600 6C/12t around 300$-400$.
Fx 8350 would be good upgrade. And which cpu cooler you have?

 

[Darkbreeze]

Not enough to make it worth the purchase new, at least, in most cases it wouldn't. If you could find an FX-8320 (And drop an overclock to about 4.5Ghz on it) or FX-8350 (Same) you would probably see a small but reasonably worthwhile improvement but you would also need to purchase a capable cooler as well. Anything else is wasteful and you absolutely don't want to even consider looking at any of the 9xxx series FX chips as they are a giant voltage leaking joke that are only suitable for use as room heaters.


If you can find an 8320 or 8350 for the right price, then it might be worth it, as you already have a fantastic motherboard that can handle high end overclocking. The extra two cores PLUS the extra 1Ghz clock speed would likely improve things enough to at least be tolerable for now since a better upgrade is as you say, not possible right now due to finances AND not recommended due to problems with current memory and GPU card pricing.

 

[charles.main13]

Which revision of motherboard you have(bottom left of motherboard like rev.)
I think FX are obsolete nowdays, but you could go for ryzen 5 4C/8t or 1600 6C/12t around 300$-400$.
Fx 8350 would be good upgrade. And which cpu cooler you have?

I have a hyper 212 evo and it's a rev 1.1

 

[Darkbreeze]

212 EVO is probably not good enough to get a 4.5Ghz OC out of any of the FX8 cpus, at least not without the system being incredibly loud all the time. 4-4.2Ghz is probably the best you can hope for without either putting up with excessive noise or getting a better cooler. Still, it's an option, and even at 4Ghz (Stock setting for the 8350 or 500mhz OC for the 8320) you'd see some gains.