Over the last few years, AMD CPUs have quickly made an impressive push in the market, providing better and faster performance than their Intel counterparts in many instances. Since building a new PC or upgrading your current one can be quite expensive, it's important to save every dollar you can by picking up components on sale throughout the year.

With this AMD processor, we’re looking at six cores and 12 threads. It’s capable of speeds of 4.7GHz. It’s unlocked so you can choose to overclock it for even faster performance while playing games—up to 5.3GHz.