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[Felius]

So, I'm looking forward trying to upgrade my computer at some point in the not far future, and given what I want I'm facing some issues: Mostly that I want a decent computer capable of running modern games (the non super demanding ones anyway) minimally well but also with a good deal of single threaded performance for DF and other games likes that. And to compound the situation, I'm on a budget, so I can hardly slap a 300 USD dollar CPU (well, I could get the CPU but then I couldn't buy the motherboard for it ) that would be the top-ish of the line for both and be done with it.

It honestly make me wish that there was some mixed performance multi-core CPUs on the market to be fair, but since that wouldn't be feasible without either shelling even more for a multi-cpu MB or McGuverying something fierce (and far beyond my current technical skills) I'm looking for advice for what to pick.

For now, I'm looking at these options for processors:
https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=AMD+FX-6300+Six-Core&id=1781
https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=AMD+Athlon+X4+860K+Quad+Core&id=2362
https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Pentium+G3258+%40+3.20GHz&id=2267

In particular, I'm so far favoring the Athlon, although I can't say anything definite yet. And, of course, in the ridiculous off-chance that the price fall down enough or my budget rises sufficiently, I'd rather go with this baby, but that's just a dream for quite a while yet.

[Eldin00]

Logical Increments[\url] is a good place to look to get an idea of what range of CPU/GPU/RAM you should be considering for a given budget, to get a relatively well balanced system.

As a general rule, for DF you want to look at RAM speed (throughput more than latency) and single-thread performance. If you get any semi-modern GPU, you won't likely see a noticable difference in DF compared to even a top of the line GPU. You probably want at least 4GB of RAM (but not more than 8GB)

For most other games, look at multi-threaded performance on the CPU, RAM speed is less important, and you want the best GPU that your CPU/RAM can manage to keep up with.

Anyway, to give you good advice we need to talk whole package (at least CPU/motherboard/RAM/GPU), because the whole system is only as good for gaming of the worst of those components.