Processor upgarde questions

Knoxi

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My planing to upgrade my pc a little bit. I want is to buy an AMD FX-8350 processor and I need some help with choosing the other parts of the build. I would only to change to following thing:

Processor, Motherboard, RAMs

Budget: £230-270

Current PC:
Motherboard: ASRock ALiveXFire-eSata2
CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 955
VGA: GTX 750 Ti
Power supply: Thermaltake Litepower 600 W
CPU cooler: ARCTIC COOLING Freezer 64 Pro
 
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http://www.asrock.com/mb/amd/alivexfire-esata2/#CPU

You can't use an FX chip on that board, it only supports Socket AM2/AM2+/AM3 chips, & the FX chips are Socket AM3[b}+[/b]. And at this point, I wouldn't recommend getting an FX-based build.

If you can wait, I would wait until the end of April, as the Ryzen 5 chips should be out by then. Or, if you're not really interested in overclocking, you could even wait until later this year for the Ryzen 3 chips to come out.

If you need to make some upgrades now, I would definitely upgrade the GPU. Like @silverado_95 said, a nice RX 470/480 would fit that budget & provide a nice upgrade for your system. And see if you can overclock your CPU as well.
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Pentium G4560 3.5GHz Dual-Core Processor (£55.20 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-B250M-DS3H Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard (£68.29 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2400 Memory (£64.99 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card: Asus Radeon RX 480 4GB Dual Video Card (£169.99 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £358.47
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-03-24 15:31 GMT+0000

The fx series is pretty outdated, if you want to stay with amd try waiting tell the ryzen 3 series is released and see what you can afford, with that said heres a idea for you get the cpu, mb, and ram listed above. sell the board, cpu, and ram you have now and i think you cam upgrade to a rx470 or 480 with the money. Just a thought, this would run a fx setup under the table
 
http://www.asrock.com/mb/amd/alivexfire-esata2/#CPU

You can't use an FX chip on that board, it only supports Socket AM2/AM2+/AM3 chips, & the FX chips are Socket AM3[b}+[/b]. And at this point, I wouldn't recommend getting an FX-based build.

If you can wait, I would wait until the end of April, as the Ryzen 5 chips should be out by then. Or, if you're not really interested in overclocking, you could even wait until later this year for the Ryzen 3 chips to come out.

If you need to make some upgrades now, I would definitely upgrade the GPU. Like @silverado_95 said, a nice RX 470/480 would fit that budget & provide a nice upgrade for your system. And see if you can overclock your CPU as well.
 
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