Question New processor, old motherboard

[3MWE]

Hi,
My laptop died, so I decided to get my old desktop out of storage. I had it custom built about 10 years ago to be a pretty decent budget gamer for the time. Back then I mostly used it for playing Sims 3 and Unreal Tournament. I still love games, but now I also need to do a lot of media editing for my wedding video business, so I wanted to make the computer faster. I bought an SSD to swap out the HDD, and a faster processor, the AMD FX-8350, but I'm now concerned my old motherboard may not cope with the new processor. The motherboard's an ASRock G31M-GS.
Any advice would be welcome.

 

[jeremyj_83]

ASRock > G31M-GS

Compatible with all FSB 1600 MHz CPU; Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 3100, DirectX 9.0, Max. shared memory 384MB; PCIE Gigabit LAN; Supports ASRock Instant Boot; Supports Smart BIOS, ASRock OC Tuner (Up to 170% CPU frequency increase); Supports Extra ESD Protection, Intelligent Energy Saver...

www.asrock.com

That appears to be an Intel board and not an AMD.

 

[clarkjd]

That CPU will definately NOT work with that motherboard. If you want an AMD system, I recommend getting a Ryzen processor, compatable motherboard and DDR4 ram, instead of the FX-8350 CPU. That wasn't very good when it first came out, and is blown out of the water performance-wise by the new Zen architecture.

 

[3MWE]

Oops! Rookie error getting my Intel and AMD mixed up. Thanks for the advice. Luckily I've not opened the box yet, so hopefully I can send it back for something more suitable. What would you suggest instead? I'd like to get away with not changing the motherboard if I can, but if I have to what would be the best combo on a limited budget? I guess I would say I can only spend about £100 total, or is it even worth it at all? My current processor is 2.33GHz Intel core 2 quad.

 

[clarkjd]

Here is the list of supported CPUs for that motherboard:
https://www.asrock.com/mb/intel/g31m-gs/#CPU

Good luck finding a new one at a reasonable price!
You may have to go used( think EBAY ) to even find something that will work, and you can afford.