Best parts for mobo Asus M4A77TD PRO

[Leszek Pietrycki]

Hello all.

I have this wonderful idea of buying some new parts for my good but old, mobo. However I have little idea what parts would be best suited for it.

My current specs:
- Athlon II X4 640
- Radeon 6700
- 8GBs of Ram
- 550 W power adapter.
- I use 1440/900 resolution

What I would like:

I dont have a lot of money, like 250$, therefore I cant buy a new rig out of NASA that can run anything on ultra. Therefore I ask you people, what parts would work well with my mobo and wouldnt cost a small country in africa.

I was thinking about Nvidia GTX 750, since a lot of people seem to claim that it's ratio price/efffectivity is good.

But that still leaves the processor, a friend recommended another Athlon, since like I said above, this mobo is quite old.

If you have better ideas, please post your thoughts below.

 

[cin19]

If you can find one of the AMD Phenom II X6, like 1090T, 1075T, 1055T, etc. Those are the best cpu you can use for your MB. You may only find the used one. Here is the cpu support list https://www.asus.com/Motherboards/M4A77TD_PRO/HelpDesk_CPU/ and the CPU hierarchy list http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/cpu-hierarchy,4312.html
I think you may get the gtx750ti, not the gtx750 if you have the budget for AMD Phenom II X6 + gtx750ti. And you may check out the review for the best AMD/Nvidia GPUs at every price point http://www.techspot.com/review/1075-best-graphics-cards-2015/

 

[Leszek Pietrycki]

I was thinking about that combo too, thanks for the tip and links

I also found while browsing a packaged deal, meaning that a shop is selling a CPU + Mobo for it.

The CPU is AMD FX-4300 4 x 3,8GHz 8MB Cache and mobo is ASRock 960GM-VGS3 FX, with chipset amd 760g. What do you think, worth buying or not? The good part is that then I would already have a better cpu than my current one and GTX 750ti would be within my budget.

 

[cin19]

It depends on what cpu ( 1090T, 1075T) you will buy, the 1090T>fx4300. The fx 4300 is newer chipset. So if you don't find those AMD Phenom II X6 or want to buy the used, then the fx4300 combo is good. And you will need the new OS for the new MB too, but if the OS is retail version, then you can use it again.

 

[Leszek Pietrycki]

1090T is too expensive for me, so I guess I will go with the fx4300 deal. You lost me at the OS part, I dont quite know what you mean.

 

[cin19]

When you buy the new MB, ASRock 960GM-VGS3 FX, if the windows OS is not the retail version, you may need to buy other copy of the OS.