Advice for proposed upgrades :)

[Timbo-Baggins]

I'm thinking of a CPU and GPU upgrade but am not overly sure what I'm doing. Any advice appreciated! My current specs:

Sapphire Radeon R7 260X
AMD Piledriver FX-4 Quad Core 4350
Asus M5A97 EVO R2.0 AMD 970
Antec Neo Eco C 520w
Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TBe
TeamGroup Elite Black 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3

I have been looking at this GPU:
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/sapphire-radeon-rx-480-nitro-oc-8192mb-gddr5-pci-express-rgb-graphics-card-gx-37b-sp.html

I was also told by a friend to wait for the Ryzen AMD processors coming out soon. This is an option but I had previously been looking at this CPU:
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/amd-piledriver-fx-8-eight-core-8350-black-edition-4.00ghz-socket-am3-processor-retail-cp-336-am.html

My budget is £400-500 and I would like to avoid power supply upgrades if possible. I am also debating more RAM but am more worried that everything is good and compatible!

Sorry for the long post, any nd all advice appreciated! Thanks

 

[Kavinqt]

DO not upgrade to any FX series CPU, sure its AM3+ so your Mobo supports it, But don't they are shit tbh, The IPC (Instructions Per clock) of that Architecture is shit compared to Intel and Supposed Ryzen CPU's I'd wait for Ryzen to launch its less than a month away or so and there will be plenty of Ryzen CPU's to choose from, You will need to upgrade your Motherboard to AM4 though so that will cost a bit extra, And I believe AM4 motherboards only support DDR4 RAM (I could be wrong about this) But if that is true you will need different RAM too. And as for a GPU a 1060 or any rx 480 would be perfect for 1080p gaming. Going higher than that I wouldn't recommend unless you want 1440p +

But it really depends what you are doing with this PC, If you only want 60 fps on decent settings a fx 8350 would be fine to go with but you will experience bottlenecks from the CPU as in most games it won't be able to keep up with the GPU.

 

[Inkiad]

Are you having problem running the games you play with your current setup?

If the you can live with your system, just wait for a while. For $500 you should be able to get new CPU + GPU + MOBO + RAM.

Else just buy the RX 480 now. You will be held down by the cpu in cpu intensive titles, like GTA V.

 

[kraelic]

Hold on the CPU for sure, don't spend on the outdated hardware. The wait will be worth it to make an informed decision. Either Zen, AM4, and DDR4 or Intel, 1151 motherboard and DDR4.