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I am upgrading my AMD 6350 CPU, Mobo and RAM(DDR3) I have been looking around for a good i5 but they are all pretty expensive. I'm looking for something around $200 maybe? Is that even possible to get a good upgraded from my AMD CPU at that price?
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Right now I'm running a AMD 6350, GTX 970 and 8gb of DDR3 memory if I were to upgrade to one of those Intel processors that you listed with a new mobo and Ram. What kind of improvements would I see, gaming and general. Is my current CPU bottlenecking my GPU? Thanks for the help
With an i5 7600 or 7600k it will be better.
How much better will depend on what game or whatever else your doing.
http://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i5-7600K-vs-AMD-FX-6350-Six-Core/3885vsm713
If you want to game go with the 7600k that should be all the cpu muscle you'll need for just about any game.
You don't need to overclock it, just leave it run at stock speed.
I really hope this does the trick for you:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/New-Intel-Core-i5-6400-Skylake-Processor-2-7GHz-8-0GT-s-6MB-LGA-1151-CPU-Retail-/172256237804?hash=item281b4598ec:g:PboAAOSwhOVXchs1
You can get one for $180.99
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