Need help picking CPU and MOBO for gaming

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#1

I am planning on upgrading this christmas and I need more RAM, which means that I need a new MOBO (currently using DDr2) so I figured might as well get a mobo with a newer socket and upgrade my cpu while I'm at it.

Right now I have an HD 5670 as my graphics card, I don't know if that helps to decide anything or not

I'd like to be able to play games like dayz and battlefeild 3 pretty well without having to upgrade my CPU again in a year for newer games. 

I don't think the RAM I pick makes much of a difference, it's just the motherboard and CPU I am worried about

Right now I am looking at an FX-6300 (maybe an FX-4300) and this motherboard

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813138362 (I don't know much about motherboard picking, so I just chose a cheaper one that seemed like it had everything I needed)

the budget is probably around $250 preferably, but I might be able to go to around $300 (keep in mind the ram will be around $35

#2

icky... that mobo is a pile..... and old... doesn't have ANY usb3, and it's loaded with legacy interfaces

you want a 970 or 990fx northbridge, and I would stay away from biostar, i've never see biostar reccomended.

take a look at this one: http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130637

#3

will that work with my 5670 though? I looked and my GPU uses an PCI express 2.1 and this mobo says it has PCI express 2.0

#4

hmm... good thing you told me, i'll look into it. I don't think the biostar had 2.1 anyways.

#5

it didn't, that was something I forgot to mention in the OP

#6

ok, the answer is yes, it will work just fine. pcie 2.1 was just kind of a half-step towards 3.0. just has some advaned systems suported that were in development for 3.0, nothing really important to most users.

#7

also, get an aftermarket cooler like the hyper 212, the fx cpu's run pretty hot.

#8

so you'd recommend the FX-6300 then?

#9

yeah, it's a good budget cpu since you already have a gpu.