[SOLVED] Need suggestions for upgrading

[Daste]

Hi! I currently have an AMD Athlon X4 840 that is like dying rn, can't even stream or play games anymore. I need a CPU upgrade. The budget is $200. Thanks!

My pc specs:
16GB DDR3 RAM 1600MHz
Gigabyte F2A68HM-S1 Motherboard
Nvidia Geforce GTX 1060 6GB GPU
AMD Athlon X4 840 CPU
lmk if you need any more of my specs. ty!

 

[mdd1963]

Can't advise throwing any more money into the old mainboard/CPU/DDR3-based rig, which leads to neading all of them for a substantial CPU upgrade...

Any possibility of upping the budget a tad to near $300 (~40% or so), too allow for a B450 mainboard ($120-ish), an R5-1600/1600AF (the latter is preferable if you can find one at $99 or so), and 16 GB of DDR4/3200 MHz? ($60 or so)...

The GTX1060 is still more than fine for at least medium 1080P in most games; I know, as mine plays BF1 just great..

 

[RodroX]

I don't think anything else you can put on that motherboard will help you. You should really consider, if posible to get a new platform.

This the lower decent update I can think right now:

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 2600 3.4 GHz 6-Core Processor ($129.99 @ B&H)
Motherboard: ASRock B450M PRO4 Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard ($79.97 @ Amazon)
Memory: G.Skill Flare X 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 Memory ($68.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $278.95
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-04-15 16:45 EDT-0400

As mdd1963 wrote you can make it cheaper if you can get a Ryzen 5 1600AF, wich is the same chip as the Ryzen 5 2600, it will get the total down to ~$250, maybe a bit less.

Cheers

 

[Daste]

Thank you! Will save up more money for that part list!

 

[ttower2020]

If you have trouble saving up enough for the system listed above, which I also recommend you do, you can try getting a Ryzen 3 cpu, or maybe only 8 GB of RAM. Both are cost cutting measures, and both can be upgraded later if you decide. If you need to do this, I would recommend only getting 8 GB of RAM to start with, since that is a much cheaper upgrade later on, however it wont save you much money right now.