Is this a worthwhile upgrade?

[DoomyCheese]

Hey everyone,

I'm currently running the following rig

AM3+ socket Gigabyte GA-990FXA-D3 mobo
Phenom II X6 1090T CPU
8GB of DDR3 1600 RAM
NVIDIA GTX 760

Now this computer is definitely a few years old now, and I've seen some struggles in recent titles like Doom. I'm only a very light gamer, I'll only play maybe 2-3 games through once every year.

I'm thinking about upgrading the CPU to a FX-8350 and throwing in another 8GB of the DDR3 1600 RAM.

What I'm wondering is, is that worthwhile or should I spend the extra money and upgrade the mobo as well switching to an i5 and DDR4.

Thanks

 

[DoomyCheese]

Also I'm looking at about $380 AUD for the first upgrade option, and about $650 for an i5 7500k and 16GB DDR4.

 

[ShadyHamster]

Moving from the Phenom to the FX is more of a sidegrade, it's not worth the money.
I would switch to Intel or wait to see what Ryzen 5 CPUs bring.

 

[DoomyCheese]

That makes a lot of sense. I checked some benchmarks out and it looks like the i5 7500k is 40% faster than the 8350, and it's only an extra $250ish to go that route. In the meantime though would I see any significant gains moving to 16GB of RAM?

 

[ShadyHamster]

16GB seems to be the sweet spot these days, some games will benefit from the extra ram.
I'm not sure you would see significant gains in overall fps upgrading to 16GB, one place you will see gains is if windows needs to start swapping out memory to the page file where you would see stuttering in fps while its doing the swapping.