The honest answer is, I don't know. It'll fit the AM3÷ socket. I can't actually remember my motherboard series off-hand, but I'll check compatibility before I buy.
Thanks for that, Smiffy. I'll save myself £50 then.
I'm always reluctant to perfom open heart surgery on a pc for < 20% speed boost.
On a tangential note, I'm looking at upgrading the missuses' PC and was looking at the new fangled AMD CPU/APUs, but there's the issue of bios' on newer boards not supporting the APU side. Which isn't an issue if I can get a discrete GFX card, but is an issue if the chip doesn't work at all if the APU isn't working.
Would that APU thing be an issue on the new CPU you're looking at?
Quality settings in VR. I'm running games at lower settings than I think a pretty high-end GPU will be able to handle. When I bump up the settings, I get freezes and even reboots, so I'm blaming the CPU
I don't think so. The FX series are old gen.
I'd be surprised if this is a CPU performance issue. Until late last year, my PC was a 7-year-old 1st-gen Core i5. Running modern stuff at higher graphics settings used to just cause poor performance, sluggish framerates and the like. I'd suggest instead a problem that's causing your main issues:
1) Overheating maybe? Try running CoreTemp and see what the temps are like when you stress the thing. I've had CPU heatsinks clog up with fluff after a while so that the PC performs poorly/unreliably under load. Cleaning things up fixed that one for me. Try hammering it with Prime95 and see what it does.
2) PSU struggling to cope with high demand maybe? The GTX 1070 is a thirsty card, so if your PSU is struggling under high load, this could also cause instability when you crank up the detail.
3) Possible RAM issue? Prime95 can be configured to hammer the RAM as well, might be worth doing this to see if you can provoke a crash from it, or try and run a memory test on it?
Worth a shot anyway to see if you can find out what's causing the instability...
My old pc (which is still sitting on my desk, daring me to find a use for it) got a new lease on life from a new, more powerful PSU. Fixed a host of problems.