I put Apex Legends on my kid's computer with a Gigabyte something-or-other MoBo (All free to me) only to discover that the Phenom II x4 975 in there is missing some instruction set to play that game. Free game, 9 year old chip, no upgrades, no workarounds that actually work.
Turns out that her MoBo has an AM3+ socket though, so I think I can put an FX-4xxx chip in there instead. Her phenom is rated at 125 watts, none of the quad core Bulldozer chips is higher, so her 750 PSU and MoBo should be about to supply enough horsepower to run the chip at stock clocks.
Wikipedia says every FX-4xxx chip has the same or higher clock speed, so whatever I get should perform better, although the bottleneck in this system will always be the CAD optimized GPU (Also free to me)
Am I missing anything, or can I just get an FX chip, slap it in, and she can join up and play some Apex with us old people?
Edit: EA says I need an FX-4350 minimum, which looks to be 2 years newer than the FX-41xx chips, but same AM3+ socket. Thoughts?
Turns out that her MoBo has an AM3+ socket though, so I think I can put an FX-4xxx chip in there instead. Her phenom is rated at 125 watts, none of the quad core Bulldozer chips is higher, so her 750 PSU and MoBo should be about to supply enough horsepower to run the chip at stock clocks.
Wikipedia says every FX-4xxx chip has the same or higher clock speed, so whatever I get should perform better, although the bottleneck in this system will always be the CAD optimized GPU (Also free to me)
Am I missing anything, or can I just get an FX chip, slap it in, and she can join up and play some Apex with us old people?
Edit: EA says I need an FX-4350 minimum, which looks to be 2 years newer than the FX-41xx chips, but same AM3+ socket. Thoughts?