Am3 ath/phem ii x 3/4 pawn 775 and quads?

[ExoMale]

I picked up couple computers yesterday for a tenner, one I was more interested was a non name micro atx tower and inside it is a crappy 255w psu, but has a Foxconn N15235 fitted with a pentium dual core e6300 @ 2.8 and ram maxed at its 4gb cap(though bios and system reading 2gb only??) and originally I was going to swap my am3 foxconn board in to it to take advantage of atx power supplies and clear my desk, but now thinking if I should or not...


I know AM3 is better than 775 and the board supports 8gb of 1333 ddr3, from a quick google, the Athlon ii x 2 250 is roughly on par with the the e6300 which got me thinking of whether that would be the same for the triple and quads?

Can get a q6600 for less than £15, but cheapest Athlon ii x 3 is £15 - 20 for one of the lower versions, but for a x4 even in the phenom I'm looking at triple the q6600 costs

Found a hd 5870 1gb for £15 if still for sale leaving me with needing a beefy psu, i need my computer for general, but I mainly want to play Anno 2205 of a recent title game which the Radeon is the minimum listed for it.


I sold my ps4 due to lack of use and to fund a bit of upgrading of, but wondering which route I should take for budget build

 

[ExoMale]

Thanks for the replies.

I only paid £12.50 for the am3 board, cpu, ram combo and a 500gb hard drive as I was after something for my case I keep holding on to lol, without a dedicated graphics card I cant test the Athlon outside of general and I think ram issue was buying a used one that was either ecc or bogus, was from shop lol so took the gamble, however after reseating the ram in the 775 system I now have 4gb though 3.25 available on 64bit which isn't activated yet or has all updates so maybe will have more useable later on.

I'm not worried about obsolete, I sold my haswell due to no time to use or needed the money, but with an Xbox one and another 360 I won't pc game much now that I do have the time, I just want to play anno 2205 the best I can on possibly a 1280x1024 or a ???? X 900 I think, be less than 1080 that's for sure for the cheapest possible budget(£5 for the intel setup or £12.50 so far) one day I'll have a proper gaming computer, but I want another ps4 and the VR by end of the year so that's my focus.


On another note maybe keeping the tower with 775 as will be better, windows 7 ISO install from USB stick ran really slow on the am3 enough to restart thinking it crashed lol where as the intel with just 2gb ram ran the installation much faster and found updates quicker, hell just using windows as normal is faster than the amd? Maybe I should get a proper psu and a gpu before getting a quad ha