So I'm trying to help my brother upgrade his build to something a little more capable for gaming as it's barely hanging on by a thread. He currently has an A10 6800k, 16gb of ddr3 and using my old gtx 970 reference edition.
We're looking to upgrade the CPU (and the motherboard, obviously). We are definitely on a budget...so the goal is to find the best deal that isn't part of some weekly bargain or something, as it might be a few weeks before we make the purchase. We'd like to reuse the RAM, so want to stay DDR3. Don't mind staying on the AMD side...bottom line is we just want the best deal we can find between 200 and at the most 300 bucks. He will be upgrading to something like a 1050 or 1060 soon, so preferably a CPU that will compliment that card and not bottleneck.
I know it's a horribly optimized example, but he's getting 10-30 fps in Battlegrounds, and his goal is a steady 40-60 (which the 970 should be more than capable of in my experience)
BTW it's the TA75MH2 Motherboard, so I believe it's a MicroATX sized case.
We're looking to upgrade the CPU (and the motherboard, obviously). We are definitely on a budget...so the goal is to find the best deal that isn't part of some weekly bargain or something, as it might be a few weeks before we make the purchase. We'd like to reuse the RAM, so want to stay DDR3. Don't mind staying on the AMD side...bottom line is we just want the best deal we can find between 200 and at the most 300 bucks. He will be upgrading to something like a 1050 or 1060 soon, so preferably a CPU that will compliment that card and not bottleneck.
I know it's a horribly optimized example, but he's getting 10-30 fps in Battlegrounds, and his goal is a steady 40-60 (which the 970 should be more than capable of in my experience)
BTW it's the TA75MH2 Motherboard, so I believe it's a MicroATX sized case.