Raven Morpheus Posted September 30, 2014 Posted September 30, 2014 (edited) Hello all My current PC is a Gigabyte GA-880GM-USB3 motherboard with an AMD Phenom II x4 955 BE @3.2GHZ, a Sapphire 5870 1GB and 8gb 1333mhz DDR3 RAM, 650w Corsair 650TX PSU. I have just seen that Ebuyer have AMD FX 8350 @4ghz for under £150. I'm thinking that the £150 (max) I will have saved up in a month or so would be better spent on a new 4ghz CPU rather than a new 2GB GPU. An upgrade to an i5 or i7 is a bit out of my reach at this time as I'd have to buy another motherboard to do so (and I'd be inclined to build a new PC if I have to do that), and I don't envisage saving any more than the £150 I will have in 4 weeks or so in the near future (next 6 months), thus an upgrade of my GPU or a new AMD CPU is my only choice for the next 6 months. So, a few questions - 1. Could I buy an AMD FX 8350, and just plug it into my current motherboard? 2. If the answer to the above is yes is it just a matter of plugging it in, applying thermal paste and putting the cooler back on and booting the PC into Windows? 3. If the answer to 1 is yes am I likely to see any better framerates in DCS given that my GPU will still be the Sapphire 5870 1GB? EDIT - Disregard this. I've just found information that indicates that my motherboard is not likely to support an AMD FX 8350. My motherboard has two versions, a rev 1.0 and a rev 3.1. Rev 1.0 is AM3 and I believe that is the one I have, whilst rev 3.1 is AM3+, but only supports up to an AMD FX81xx CPU. Looks like the only upgrade option I have is the GPU (and that's assuming the newer cards would even work, again mobo supporting them could be an issue?), anything else and I may as well buy a new PC. Edited September 30, 2014 by Raven Morpheus
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