Hi peeps, I currently have; AMD athlon ii 435 unlocked to a Phenom ii x3 @ 3.61Ghz Msi 770 - c45 8 Gig Mushkin DDR 3 1600mhz AMD 7850 2gb (1150 gpu / 5400 ram) Windows 8 Pro and I'm look for a cpu and mobo upgrade. I'm on a budget. I like to spend as little as I can and have a good play with it. So Overclocking is always an option. The mobo is at it's limits and I don't want to upgrade to a phenom x6 as the board is only a 4 + 1 and it would probably catch fire if I tried to overclock it. Can I expect much of an upgrade at around £150 ($240) budget? Thanks peeps Andy
For $270 you could get an i5 3470 with B75 mobo. For $280 there's i5 3470 with Z75 mobo, which allows to overclock i5 3470 to around 4 GHz.
Thanks for your reply man, I'll have a look into that option today. I'm glad it allows some tweaking though.