Desktop upgrading

That's good. That will work.

if you plan to only do like rendering or school work and not game with like demanding titles than that cpu is a good deal imo. what model is your psu besides being just coolermaster? should be fine as that board only takes a 4pin cpu power and it should obviously have that. the fx-6300's don't take much juice anyways.

My PSU is a Coolermaster RS-500.

you should be fine if you get odd issue is would upgrade it though as its imo borderline. that GPU is recommended to have +12 rail with at least 28 amps and your psu has two +12v rails with 12 amp each.

Oh. Well. Um. I'll keep that in mind.

whs said:

I would go with solution 1 - for budget reasons. I once upgraded a 4800+ to a 5800+. Worked well. A 6000+ is another option. They all have the AM2 socket like your 3800+.

What is the best processor I can upgrade to with the AM2 socket? I may just go that route.

Also, will this play well with my current motherboard? I looked it up and it's a 125W CPU. I just want to make sure it'll play well. I can get this, upgrade my RAM, and have my desktop last a few more years before I finally have to cave in and do a whole new build.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/AMD-Athlon-6...item3375c8a54d

Also, FYI (and I'm looking into this myself) my desktop mobo is:

ACER HT2000 MCP61sm-am

So I'm looking to see if it'll support the 125W CPU or not.

is this what you have? MCP61SM-AM V.1.0 GF6100 | Ecs MCP61SM-AM Dual Core AM2 Motherboard IT will nto support a amd fx 4, 6, or 8 series if that is what you mean since they are am3+.