Need help on what to upgrade!

[Jacob_Thren]

Hey guys so I built a gaming pc about 2 years ago and now I think its time to upgrade. I game on it nearly every day and its definitely isnt running the newer games how I was hoping it to. Older games are great but the newer games are just killing my pc barely hanging onto 30 fps on some games. I've been looking into upgrading for a long time now I just really dont know what to upgrade. I have a amd fx-6350 on a msi 970 motherboard with a radeon r9 280x and 16 gbs of memory, I have to run most games at the lowest graphic settings to get a decent game play out of it and the fps drops significantly when I use higher graphic setting on some games. I have done some bench marking and other things to see whats being run the most and all that and it seems as if my cpu is almost maxing out in most games. Most people when they upgrade for the first time they upgrade the gpu but Im not exactly sure what to do in this circumstance, If anyone would take some time out to help me and explain to me what I should do I would really appreciate it thank you !!

 

[TrAAst]

Budget?

 

[Jacob_Thren]

Budget?

im really not trying to to spend over $600

 

[TrAAst]

I recommend you upgrade CPU, RAM and Motherboard first. If you would like more performance you can easily add a better GPU later.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 5 1600 3.2GHz 6-Core Processor ($197.88 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: ASRock - AB350 Pro4 ATX AM4 Motherboard ($61.98 @ Newegg)
Memory: G.Skill - Ripjaws V Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory ($124.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $384.85
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-08-05 12:53 EDT-0400

GPU:
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

Video Card: Gigabyte - GeForce GTX 1060 3GB 3GB Windforce OC Video Card ($216.89 @ SuperBiiz)
Total: $216.89
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-08-05 12:58 EDT-0400

 

[ocer9999]

I recommend you upgrade CPU, RAM and Motherboard first. If you would like more performance you can easily add a better GPU later.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 5 1600 3.2GHz 6-Core Processor ($197.88 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: ASRock - AB350 Pro4 ATX AM4 Motherboard ($61.98 @ Newegg)
Memory: G.Skill - Ripjaws V Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory ($124.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $384.85
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-08-05 12:53 EDT-0400

GPU:
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

Video Card: Gigabyte - GeForce GTX 1060 3GB 3GB Windforce OC Video Card ($216.89 @ SuperBiiz)
Total: $216.89
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-08-05 12:58 EDT-0400

True, and also right now all the VGA cards are inflated. wait a little more, they might come down soon.

 

[Jacob_Thren]

I recommend you upgrade CPU, RAM and Motherboard first. If you would like more performance you can easily add a better GPU later.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 5 1600 3.2GHz 6-Core Processor ($197.88 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: ASRock - AB350 Pro4 ATX AM4 Motherboard ($61.98 @ Newegg)
Memory: G.Skill - Ripjaws V Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory ($124.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $384.85
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-08-05 12:53 EDT-0400

GPU:
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

Video Card: Gigabyte - GeForce GTX 1060 3GB 3GB Windforce OC Video Card ($216.89 @ SuperBiiz)
Total: $216.89
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-08-05 12:58 EDT-0400

Thank you so much for the input and the options to choose from! I'll definitely be taking a look at that and hopefully have my computer running much better in no time thank you so so much

 

[Jacob_Thren]

I recommend you upgrade CPU, RAM and Motherboard first. If you would like more performance you can easily add a better GPU later.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 5 1600 3.2GHz 6-Core Processor ($197.88 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: ASRock - AB350 Pro4 ATX AM4 Motherboard ($61.98 @ Newegg)
Memory: G.Skill - Ripjaws V Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory ($124.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $384.85
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-08-05 12:53 EDT-0400

GPU:
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

Video Card: Gigabyte - GeForce GTX 1060 3GB 3GB Windforce OC Video Card ($216.89 @ SuperBiiz)
Total: $216.89
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-08-05 12:58 EDT-0400

True, and also right now all the VGA cards are inflated. wait a little more, they might come down soon.

Alright thanks for letting me know!