How to balance price and performance in a new CPU

Sure, you could just plop down a bunch of cash for the best CPU money can buy, but spending several hundred dollars isn't the only way to get a good CPU. Here are some bang-for-your-buck options.

Grab a brand new motherboard and you'll be able to spend as much as $300 on a more-than-capable processor for the PC build. You'll have bags of fun, be it in games or in intensive applications. But if you'd like to save a penny or two, all while taking advantage of capable CPUs, it's possible to grab a stellar deal when it comes to performance.

Updated March 1, 2017: We swapped out our Intel Core i5-6500 listing in favor of a more powerful (and expensive) 7th-Gen Core i7-7700K. This was also due to the addition of a new AMD processor, the Ryzen 7 1700.

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