CPU or Xfire gpu

[Curcheese]

For Christmas I will be upgrading my cpu. I am wondering if I should go with an i5 4690k and 1 r9 270x (I already own one 270x) or should I get something like the athlon 860k or another CPU less than an 4690k and crossfire another 270x. Thanks for your replies!

 

[simon12]

What exactly do you have now and whats your budget?

 

[zeyuanfu]

What will you be doing?

 

[Curcheese]

I am pretty much all gaming. my specs are:
A8-6500 APU
XFX DD r9 270x 2gb
600w PSU (can't remember brand)
8 GB ram
2TB Seagate barracuda HDD

 

[zeyuanfu]

I would suggest the 4690K path. What's your budget?

 

[Wisecracker]

Buy an SSD ...

Otherwise, wait for the new GPUs at 20nm and DDR4 'mainstream'

 

[zeyuanfu]

Depends on the game. For BF4, you're going to have to get a locke i5 and maybe a 280(X).
SSDs don't boost FPS that much.

Also, it'll be a long time before DDR4 becomes mainstream.

 

[chenw]

Upgrade CPU is generally only worth it if you are upgrading the rest of your rig, or if your CPU is very low tiered, which 860x doesn't seem to be that bad of a CPU. If you are only upgrading part of your rig, I highly recommend upgrading your GPU instead.

Also, note I mentioned upgrading, not Xfiring. I personally feel Xfire/SLI is only worth it for top few cards from each side, otherwise it is often better to simply swap the card for a higher end one. GPU doesn't scale that well and often you may have to deal with issues that could arise from such an arrangement. I have an SLI setup, and while I haven't had any issues with it so far, I would have prefered a single GPU solution if there was one available for me, which there isn't.

 

[Curcheese]

I have about 350-400 as a budget and I do plan on getting an ssd its just I have an apu right now and that needs to go xD.

 

[Curcheese]

I just upgraded my GPU in august so I don't want to go ahead and get rid of it this soon. I also have an apu running an r9 270x and I know its bottle necking bad. So its either I go all out on a cpu or do a mix and xfire 2 270s and get a lower end CPU.

 

[chenw]

High end CPU then, and wait out for the next gen cards, upgrade to that when the time comes.

 

[Curcheese]

chenw if I could I would definitely prefer a better GPU but I just got this one 4 months ago and I don't want to get rid of it this fast.

 

[Wisecracker]

Oh, look!
There's Skylake-S ...

supporting both DDR4 and DDR3 -- with motherboard makers deciding which memory architecture to support ...

Right there along side Broadwell. In 6 months. Gosh. Like I said ...

Buy an SSD ...

Otherwise, wait for the new GPUs at 20nm and DDR4 'mainstream'