Well guess I'm screwed, living on disability, priorities come first as in bills, food, etc. Just wondering though. Guess when my pc burns out I guess i'll to find something to do........sucks......
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Yes, you are right about backwards; But you are wrong about the compatibility.
You just got lucky and had a combo motherboard I would guess.
Well it happens like twice a decade, so you got unlucky.Edited: February 24, 2016
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Well it happens like twice a decade, so you got unlucky.
What do you mean?
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DDR2 is not the same fit as DDR3 so no it won't work, only if you have a combo slot it would.
The RAM is not backwards compatible (that is forward). The Motherboard would be backwards compatible if it does support DDR2 & DDR3.
About the unlucky part.... computers -in general- have a lifespan of about 5 years (half a decade, happens twice a decade that they break down somewhere)
Anyway, the most usefull question has not yet been asked: why do you want a new CPU? I think an SSD will make your PC alot faster, more than a new CPU would :)
P.S. I have the FX4300, got to love it :)
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Well my pc is older than 5 yrs so far. The only thing that's been replace/upgraded is the power supply, keyboard, and graphics card. Is a FX4300 compatible without having to upgrade anything else? I figured a better cpu would give me better fps's.
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Depends on the game... But instead of buying a CPU that increases the speed of processing, an SSD speeds EVERYTHING up.
Anyway, what are you using the PC for anyway?
WoW only?
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A SSD would only help in games for the loading speed, it doesn't/barely increases your fps since a game will load all of the assets into RAM, a processor would increase your fps some on the other hand, in op's case it would probably help a lot.
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/mf2gNG is a little bit more than the fx 6300 but it will be everything you need, and should fit in your current case. AMD's next line is supposed to be on a new socket so you won't be able to upgrade and something that's intel for this cheap won't be upgradeable either and would only be dual core where a lot of new games are starting to refuse to run on them.
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From the link you posted I'm guessing the AMD Athlon X4 860K 3.7GHz Quad-Core Processor will fit in my pc with no problems?
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that motherboard should fit in your case, and then you need that processor to go with that motherboard and then you need that ram to actually run the computer, you need all 3
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Standard change, DDR2>DDR3, AGP>PCE, xxx>yyy CPU socket.
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Damn, with that setup you'll need to upgrade a lot more than the CPU. Its honestly awful and even if DDR2 could fit in a DDR3 slot (which it can't), it would still bottleneck your CPU like mad.
Get around $500 and go for a completely new PC, maybe keep the HDD if you want
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Wow runs great even on a damn pentium 4 CPU. If you have problems with performance try GPU or RAM. Tough there are systems that use CPU power for GPU assistance.
Point is, I have i3 and in last 5 years I have never used its full potential, RAM and GPU is different story.
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Is their anything that can use cpu power to boost the gpu?
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Hmm no, it'll actually even be the other way when DirectX12 comes. It will take load off the CPU and put it on the GPU. However if you only play WoW it won't help as the only expansions that might get DX12 compatibility are going to the be the new ones (Legion and forward)
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Listen to this guy when Zen comes out it will be best buy and if you wont be able to afford Zen youl get older models much cheaper, Zen is expected for release in October 2016 i would wait.
