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Help with upgrade

tonchevskiemil

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Aug 26, 2016
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I want to upgrade something,what should i upgrade ?
My specs:
CPU:FX 8350
Motherboard: Asrock 970 Extreme3
Gpu:HD 7870 Sapphire Ghz edition
Cooler: CM Hyper 103
PSU: GX 550W
 
Solution
You seem to like AMD so you might want to wait upgrading your Motherboard, CPU and RAM until we see what the Zen has to offer. I'm sure that will be more than $200. So I see two areas you can upgrade.

1. You could add a SSD that will add Zip to your system. A Samsung 850 Evo 500GB won't use all your budget but a good chunk of it ($160 - $180).
https://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&field-keywords=samsung%20850%20evo%20500gb&index=blended&link_code=qs&sourceid=Mozilla-search&tag=mozilla-20

2. You could upgrade your GPU to say a AMD RX 470 that would be right about $200.
https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=rx+470&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Arx+470
You seem to like AMD so you might want to wait upgrading your Motherboard, CPU and RAM until we see what the Zen has to offer. I'm sure that will be more than $200. So I see two areas you can upgrade.

1. You could add a SSD that will add Zip to your system. A Samsung 850 Evo 500GB won't use all your budget but a good chunk of it ($160 - $180).
https://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&field-keywords=samsung%20850%20evo%20500gb&index=blended&link_code=qs&sourceid=Mozilla-search&tag=mozilla-20

2. You could upgrade your GPU to say a AMD RX 470 that would be right about $200.
https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=rx+470&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Arx+470
 
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