Looking for upgrade suggestions

[Epid3mic]

Alright right now I have a generic motherboard from an ASUS computer that could have been bought at Walmart. I am looking to keep my cpu and get a new motherboard, gpu and ram in hopes that I can play some if not all of the games coming out in the next year that I want to. Right now I am running an AMD Athlon II X4 645 "Propus" core, socket AM3 (938) it is from the F family, currently running 3.1ghz. I am looking to upgrade the motherboard in hopes of maybe cranking this little cpu up a little bit. So here are my questions, what would be a good motherboard for overclocking this processor? Looking for suggestions for overclocking with both air and H2o cooling. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

 

[Fallengod]

Dont bother I say. A new intel 1155 system is pretty cheap these days. Why waste money on old stuff for a super slow and outdated cpu.

 

[pauldun170]

Do not...do not... do not... do not.
I cant even say upgrade the CPU.

Going with Fallengod's post

 

[Epid3mic]

Alright, then what cpu and motherboard combo do you guys suggest as far as intel 1155 goes? I have always been an AMD guy and never really bothered reading too much on the Intel chips. So help here would be great.

P.s- As far as price goes I want a system that is not EXPENSIVE but will be able to play the games that are out such as Kingdoms of Amalur, Skyrim and Diablo 3 when it comes out.

 

[OILFIELDTRASH]

2500k and z68 motherboard and 8 or 16gb ram
/thread

 

[drugula]

2500k and p67 if you will use your own Video card
and SSD
as z68 is higer in price with many options that you can simply igonre them
if you have a good video card + OS on SSD

 

[pauldun170]

Alright, then what cpu and motherboard combo do you guys suggest as far as intel 1155 goes? I have always been an AMD guy and never really bothered reading too much on the Intel chips. So help here would be great.

P.s- As far as price goes I want a system that is not EXPENSIVE but will be able to play the games that are out such as Kingdoms of Amalur, Skyrim and Diablo 3 when it comes out.

Define expensive
Give us a budget, carry over components and we'll will virtually build it for you.