I recently upgraded from the G 3258 to an i 56500 and so far , I ' m really pleased with it . For me , the price difference between that and the 66006600 K wasn ' t worth the slight performance boost . You mentioned looking at an SSD if you can work your budget a little . How about something like this ? PCPartPicker part list Price breakdown by merchantTypeItemPriceCPU Intel Core i 56500 3 . 2 GHz QuadCore Processorcpubx 80662 i 56500 $ 259 . 99 Newegg Canada Motherboard MSI H 110 M PROVD PLUS Micro ATX LGA 1151 Motherboardh 110 mprovdplusmicroatxlga 1151 motherboardh 110 mprovdplus $ 54 . 99 Amazon Canada Memory Corsair Vengeance LPX 8 GB 1 x 8 GB DDR 42400 Memorymemorycmk 8 gx 4 m 1 a 2400 c 14 $ 59 . 99 Newegg Canada Storage AMD Radeon R 3 240 GB 2 . 5 Solid State Driveinternalharddriver 3240 gb $ 76 . 98 DirectCanada Prices include shipping , taxes , rebates , and discounts Total $ 451 . 95 Generated by 20161125 0211 EST 0500 There are some 120 GB SSDs that go on sale for around $ 40 The Source has had a few sales like that . Keep an eye on rbapcsalescanada and redflagdeals Good luck !