need upgrade cpu or gpu

[adast]

hi i would like to know what should upgrade because on some games its pretty laggy today i bought Wolfenstein The New Order by looking at recommended req i should be able to run just fine but i cant i set to medium high settings i get 30fps minimum and it gives me lag spikes
here is the image of settings that i have set i get maximum of 60fps minimum drops to 51 but i would like to max out a bit on games so for like fps games what would be the best to upgrade cpu or gpu
my specs
INTEL i5-4460 CPU @ 3.20GHz
AMD MSI Radeon R9 280x 3GB
8GB Corsair Vengeance 1600mhz
Gigabyte H81M-H
CX 600M +80Bronze

 

[McFee]

Your CPU I think it Fine. GPU is decent also what are you running for storage? HDD or SSD? I believe that game is very Nvidia Optimized also. I ran it on my setup and it was butter smooth at 1440p

 

[rhysiam]

You've got a great CPU, and a solid mid range GPU.

With that CPU there will be very, very few games that have you CPU limited. If you're unhappy with your settings the GPU is definitely the upgrade.

What's you budget? You'd probably need to go to a GTX 970 or R9 290X for a noticeable upgrade.

The Radeon cards are launching this week I believe (well, a new top end card and rebrands across the rest of the line up). That should see a price reshuffle. So wait out this week and see where things land.

I'd suggest unless you have a large $500 budget, a GTX 970 is the best upgrade right now, and may well be even after AMD's releases/rebrands... but it's worth waiting to see.

 

[Outlander_04]

What exact version of Windows are you using?

I doubt you need a hardware upgrade

 

[adast]

Your CPU I think it Fine. GPU is decent also what are you running for storage? HDD or SSD? I believe that game is very Nvidia Optimized also. I ran it on my setup and it was butter smooth at 1440p

HDD

 

[adast]

What exact version of Windows are you using?

I doubt you need a hardware upgrade

Windows 7