I'm a poor faggot and I'm planning on purchasing a refurbished PC from ebay. I'm putting processor above everything else (saw PCs that were under $250 that had quad core cpus) and I will progressively put new hardware on. Any advice //?
<===Under $250 on ebay, quad core cpu
>>55765440
get a used i5. don't fall for the fx meme.
Quad Core doesn't immediately mean good. You get those 6 years ago and in £60 tablets.
You need a half way decent mobo if you want to upgrade later. Buying crap to begin with is pretty inefficient though, unless you absolutely need it.
>>55765440
You should be able to get at least one Xeon E5 for that, though you would need to put that together yourself.
fx-4xxx cpu's are actually dual cores, so keep that in mind. they get away with calling it a quad core without lawsuit because of the 4 integer units and 4 fp schedulers meme that doesn't actually provide quad core performance.