Processors

[nbadding]

What can I put in my AM3 socket that is NEW, not "used".  I have a HP Pavillion p6774y.  16G of 1666 RAM and a separate PNY - XLR8 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4GB GDDR5 PCI Express Video Card.  I do a lot of intensive 3D modeling and photorealistic rendering.  I've maxed out everything else on the motherboard, I'd like to step up to a new cpu.  The motherboard is a N-Alvorix-RS880.uATX (Alvorix).  I can't find any NEW Phenom II X6 cpu's.  A few "refurbished" and a lot of "used".  AMD doesn't sell the Phenom II anymore, so what replaces it?

[black_zion]

Nothing. All processors supported by that motherboard used in that system have long since been discontinued.

[neon]

Most of the AM3 processors launched in 2009-2011, with one final Athlon II X2 in 2013.

Socket AM4 replaced socket AM3+ in 2017, which had replaced socket AM3 in 2011.

[jup_kozlowski]

It´s quite better to get a new MB with a new CPU.

The Phenom II Series is almost too old for future applications and dosen´t support SSE 4.1.