M5A97 LE R2.0 (Socket 942) Best cpu upgrade?

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Afternoon all , I'm looking to upgrade my AMD FX-6300 . I was looking at the Piledriver FX-8 Eight Core 8350 Wraith Edition 4.00GHz (Socket AM3+) but I've read conflicting post about this cpu and this board and something VRM ?

I'm not really a teccy on this stuff, I just don't want to buy it and then have problems. If not could anyone recommend another 8 core cpu? I'm not into overclocking or nowt like that!

Thanks in advance.

 

[pastymuncher]

Technically it can take up to a FX8370 but I wouldn't recommend it as the FX8000 series cpu's hammer the vrm's and that board has no vrm cooling at all. The vrm's are the rows of little chips to the left of the cpu socket. I am not sure it would be that much better than you FX6300 anyway.

If you end up wanting to replace the motherboard to upgrade the cpu then you would be better off waiting for Zen (Ryzen) and the new chipsets for the AM4 socket next month.

 

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Cheers pastymuncher, I think I might wait and upgrade the mobo. What you said is what I have read as well. I just upgraded my old graphic card so that's why I was thinking of upgrading the cpu to get few more fps . I'm thinking now it might be a bit of a waist of money