What's the best AM3 processor to get on a budget for gaming

[Jersey_ci]

I have a spare gigabyte 78LMT-USB3 motherboard and I want to use this in my gaming PC instead of my AM1 platform first of all is it worth swapping and if so what cpu should I get that's good for gaming
and I will be using this with a gtx1050ti
thanks!

 

[Dion__]

Hello!

My first tough was an FX 8350 but.. (http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/answers/id-2123201/78lmt-usb3-rev-amd-8350.html?_ga=1.61775980.1906407754.1481053191)

And then i remembered i had the same problem with a customer of mine.. so yhea, if you are planning on doing only gaming, no recording or streaming a six core AMD am3+ is fine 😀
AMD FX 6300

Greetings

 

[bootcher]

If you can get an 8-core 125 watt cheap it would be nice, though you can't do much overclocking on this motherboard without running into problems due to the poor thermal design of the board. In any case, the next best thing to an 8-core is the 6-core FX 6300.

 

[maddogfargo]

Lightly overclocked FX 6300 + R9 380 or GTX 1050 would be a decent budget combo for 1080p @ 60hz.

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[Magnumload]

I own a AMD 6300, base clock atm. Had it overclocked to 4ghz. It pairs up with a AMD 390 and it works for most games, but even just 1080 and especially non-optimized games and non Dx12 games, you are going to hit a bottleneck with the 6300. You'll have to turn settings down if you want a solid 60 fps and some games, that is just unattainable.

If I were you, the best thing that you can do right now, is wait a few more months. You won't regret it. I still wish I would have waited and I got this processor over a year ago upgrading from a OG Phenom II.

 

[sizzling]

Although that motherboard claims to support 125w it will throttle them after prolonged use as the VRM's overheat. I agree with Dion, don't go higher than a 6300 and don't expect to be able to overclock it.

 

[logainofhades]

The FX 8300 is the way to go, for an AMD cpu. It is a 95w chip also. You may need a bios update, to make it work.