$170 on a motherboard and a processor? I'm hesitant to recommend the 965 because it will bottleneck that card, but i don't want to say get a 6300 and a shit motherboard. I'd say sell your apu+mobo and add that to your budget.
The Phenom II X4 965, wont bottleneck that card. at the moment.
its an older quadcore cpu, but still a very great one.
till the time games optimized for 4 cores. it will just do fine. (as far as i know)
but ofc the phenom II x6 of the FX6300 would be a better option, but its just depending on youre budget..
if you plan to overclock then dont go with the asrock 970 board. cause it has only 4+1 power phase.
but if you not plan to do any overclocking then it will work just fine ☻
Notice if you plan to combinate a FX6300 with the Asrock 970, then you maybe need to flash the bios first to get it running!
500W psu 80+bronze wil also be enough at the moment, but doesnt give you much room, to upgrade. wenn its possible to get a 650W 80+ bronze its more recomded, but for the things you gonne do now the 500W will be enough.
can't already sold the apu.What do you think would be good mobo to get for 965 want to overclock to 4.0.but has to around 70/60 bucks. But if could find good pair with 6300 for about 200/190 let me know.going to overclock to 4.1 the cpu
Look at Gigabyte, I have been using a $80ish mobo by them for almost 4 years with my phenom, and I could easily overclock. Overclocking shouldn't be too hard with them.
ty MisteryAngel just found that boad for 80 on amazon going to get that with 965.Now about overclocking I have the hyper 212 evo will I be able to overclock to 4.0Ghz ?