Msi Gaming 970 CPU?

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Hey guys, I have an MSI 970 gaming card and im still using an AMD FX-4300 cpu, is that okay? Or am I not getting full potential of my card?

Whats the best cpu I can get under $350?

and also is my MOBO okay? if not what can i get to replace that at a reasonable price? I have a Gigabyte 970A-UD3

Thanks a lot guys!
 
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The Gigabyte 970A-UD3 is a brilliant board, it's end of life now but it's just as good as the 970A-UD3P that replaced it or the MSI 970 Gaming. The FX 4300 is probably going to hold your GPU back a bit, but nothing drastic, though the minimum I would pair a GTX 970 with is an FX 6300. You could go with an 8350 with your board, but your budget would allow you to get a 4690k and a Z97 motherboard.
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Your cheapest upgrade path would be just switching to either a fx-6300 or fx-8320. Your best upgrade path would be getting an i5 and a new motherboard for it.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD FX-6300 3.5GHz 6-Core Processor ($96.89 @ OutletPC)
Total: $96.89
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-08-04 10:44 EDT-0400

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD FX-8320 3.5GHz 8-Core Processor ($139.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Total: $139.99
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-08-04 10:44 EDT-0400


PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4690K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor ($229.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: MSI Z97S SLI Krait Edition ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($115.89 @ OutletPC)
Total: $345.88
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-08-04 10:45 EDT-0400
 
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Well you may bottleneck in some cpu heavy games but its not the worst cpu in the world it should do well in a lot of games. For a cpu upgrade I would go for an i5 4690k and a z97 mobo if you want to overclock, if you dont want to overclock go with a cheaper i5 like the i5 4460 and an h97 mobo.
 
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OP that i5 price is from microcenter in-store only, so if you don't have a microcenter close by add about $30 to this total price.
 
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The Gigabyte 970A-UD3 is a brilliant board, it's end of life now but it's just as good as the 970A-UD3P that replaced it or the MSI 970 Gaming. The FX 4300 is probably going to hold your GPU back a bit, but nothing drastic, though the minimum I would pair a GTX 970 with is an FX 6300. You could go with an 8350 with your board, but your budget would allow you to get a 4690k and a Z97 motherboard.
 
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It depend on the game but it is going to have big bottlenecks, he really should get the upgrade, but I would wait for skylake as it's coming out so soon.
 
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You really should wait for skylake as it's coming out so soon. Even if it's not amazing it will push down the prices of other cpu's like the 4690k.
 
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skylake is still a low upgrade improvement sucks cuz they barely made the cpu better again worse is that some older cpus beat the skylake ones in some games only remeber a racing game in a post here or in other part of tom's by a fellow comunity member (link to another page) and i doubt most of use play racing games at least not that much oh well sucks that there isnt any real reason to upgrade if you have intel cpus anyways i think the 4790k i7 or the 4690k i5 are a good option for you to upgrade
 
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