what is the best cpus for a gigabyte F2A68HM-HD2 motherboard?

[coolladbw2002]

my pc presently consists of:
650w corsair psu
msi gtx 960 gpu
gigabyte F2A68HM-HD2 MB
AMD A8-7650K RADEON R7 CPU
16 GB OF RAM
1TB HDD
I believe that my pc is being signifficiantly bottlenecked by my cpu. from the benchmarks i have run on 3d mark, the cpu allways seemd to be holding the pc back. what is the best option cpu for this sort of build.

 

[Phaaze88]

Cpu temps are ok?
The best option is moving to a newer platform.
Even the strongest cpu your board supports, the A10-7890k, is only a few mhz faster(in turbo clocks) than your current, and that alone isn't going to be enough.

 

[coolladbw2002]

Yeah cpu temps are fine. I don't think it would take much as I'm only running a gtx 960. If I was going for a bigger gpu I would probably upgrade both mb and cpu but. I think it wouldnt take too much of an upgrade. Should this cpu be good enough with this gpu, mabey there is something else wrong.

 

[Phaaze88]

If temps are fine - not going over 72C - then it comes down to your cpu being weak.
Those A-series cpus weren't very good to begin with, but they had a specific purpose, which you pretty much killed off with the 960. Once that was added, it went from a weak quad core with strong(?) integrated graphics, to just a weak quad core. They got spanked by older Intel dual cores, as well as being weaker than FX 4300 and up, and those(FX) weren't very good cpus either.
Folks are constantly baited by their outrageously low prices even today...

 

[coolladbw2002]

Right so if I was going to upgrade everything is there anything you could recommend for the 960

 

[coolladbw2002]

No I didn't even really choose the cpu myself it started as a prebuilt pc. But by now I would have been better building my own. I've nearly replaced everything on my pc bye now the pc was no where near worth the money. At the start I was looking for a quick option. Before this pc I was working on a dell optiplex 755 and having a list off issues with motherboards cpu and the weak dell psu I wanted something quick and easy. So unfortunately I bought a prebuilt. Its probably been more difficult to work with than the dell. So I was kind of hoping for an easy, cheap upgrade. But once again another problem with the prebuil.

 

[Phaaze88]

Intel side:
I5 8400. But if it's too much at the moment, then the pentium G5600. Either of these will need a 300-series motherboard and ddr4 ram.

Amd side:
Ryzen 2600x(most expensive), 2600(middleman), or 1600(cheapest). Needs an AM4 mobo and ddr4 ram.

 

[coolladbw2002]

thanks for the help

 

[dontlistentome]

Being a pre-built isn't always the problem. There are pre-builts that are actually good deals.

The problem a lot of buyers have is not realizing there are CPUs, and APUs, created for different markets. Gamers are one market. Office computers are another market. Low cost home computers are another market.

So your A series APU was created to serve the low cost home computer market. It is a CPU with graphics stronger that what Intel offers. The whole point of that computer is you don't need to buy a videocard for it, because it was not intended for the kind of use where you need a videocard. So you see the problem has nothing to do with being pre-built, the problem is it is the wrong kind of pre-built for your needs.

In the future just do your research on the pre-built and the CPU. Make sure it was made for gaming if you intend to use it for gaming. It's true that gaming CPUs cost more, but just remember this: If you buy a cheap computer to save money, but it doesn't do what you need it to do, you have not saved money, you have wasted money.

 

[coolladbw2002]

You see that's all good and all but when your first look for pc prebuilts with no real clue of what you need it's very difficult. Most prebuilts are fausly advertised as "gaming ready pcs" I had a mild notion of computers before I bought it but I never really used AMD I always used intel. It's very difficult to even do research I had some what of a notion of what I needed but even I found it very difficult to research. It's not that I didn't do research because I done lots and lots. Yet when choosing the pc this still did not benefit me. Alot of prebuilts sellers are basically scamming alot of people who also don't know what they want. It may be ok for you to say " just do research " you already know what you are looking for. There is very little places that you can actually do good reaserch especially when buying prebuilts of sites like Amazon or eBay. They usually come with limited description of what you are buying. Take for example the description of the pc which I bought "Ultra Fast Gaming PC - AMD A8 7650K Quad Core @ 4.20GHz, ATI Radeon HD R7 Graphics, 8GB DDR3" this was the description. The lay out of this description is very hard to follow to easily sepperate each part of the pc for someone who doesn't know anything about pcs and is trying to research. It may make sense to you but think if you didn't know anything then this is basically like learning a new language. I believe that if you build a pc yourself it is much easier to learn this stuff. And as a result you will have a better oc. I know now it is only after working around my pc that I know this stuff. Im not amazing. But better than befoew.