Upgrading AMD A10 6800k Cpu

[zjfrost]

Hi, As the title says, I have a AMD A10 6800k Cpu and a motherboard with fm2+/fm2 socket type and my gpu is geforce gtx 980 and I want to upgrade my cpu so that It can better keep up with my graphics card.

Can I have some suggestions on what I should upgrade to? Thanks for the help! If you need more info feel free so ask.

Edit: So I guess my final question here is, can I even get a processor on this motherboard that can keep up with my graphics card and if not what are youre final suggestions on what combo of motherboard and processor should I buy

 

[Gon Freecss]

I'm not saying the socket will be outdated, the platform would. There are new features coming every year, and Intel just doesn't give its platforms a long life.

Since the person already has DDR3 ram, he has the option to opt for a Haswell or a Broadwell processor. While it's true the 6700K/7700K outperform both the 5775C and the 4790K on average, they two last processors are still pretty good, especially the Broadwell CPU.

You're just looking at prices on Newegg. Anyhow, the choice is up to them.

I know what you are saying, in the same sentence you said that Z270 will soon be outdated you said Z97 is modern enough, its nearly a contradiction. Yes I know they have new features every year, but the guy is US based and the two largest retailers sell the processors you suggested for significantly more than their newer faster counterparts. His concern is needing to buy memory, clearly financial, So he could pay just as much money (maybe a few dollars less) and get an older slower platform and processors, or buy a brand new platform and new memory. The cost is nearly the same. And a few years down the line if he wants to upgrade to something else, He will have DDR4 memory he can probably re-use (DDR5 is projected for 2021 the earliest). Clinging to old memory on an old platform for what would net to a minimal amount of money and be useless at upgrade time is why its bad advice.

Not really a contradiction. Also, they could find those prices at pcpartpicker.

Also DDR5 is more likely coming out in a couple years.

If he wants to keep his ram, they could get into the Z97 platform which is still very good. Otherwise, they can do whatever they want.