Pc upgrade help

[Djmasterman]

Hey guys my pc is pretty old but it gets the job done quite well surprisingly. but it's at the end of its life and needs an upgrade. I'm on a bit of a budget here so I can't go and spend crazy amounts of money, I'm thinking of upgrading my 6 year old cpu but here the question, if I were to upgrade my gpu to a r9 390 would I get more performance out of games thanks upgrading my cpu to an I7 4790k

My cpu and gpu
And phenom ii x4 955 oc'd to 3.9ghz

Amd Radeon r9 270x oc'd to 1170mhz

Thanks for the answers

 

[rolli59]

At 1080P the 955BE is almost a bottleneck for your 270X, mine was for HD7850 until I hit 3.6GHz, I would say you will benefit more from the CPU upgrade since the 270X is still a good midrange card.

 

[BlueBeast]

Before you go out and buy a i7 4790k, you should probably check out your motherboards compatibility, since you're saying you have an old setup your motherboard is most likely "out of date" so a brand new cpu will not fit in it or even work. Since you're saying you're on a bit of a budget, then the Asus z97 motherboard would be a good choice for the i/ 4790k.

you said you're on a budget, so you can save money with a 4690k. Differences are
4790k is 4.0 GHz, 4.4 GHz under turbo
4690k is 3.5 GHz, 3.9 GHz under turbo

Hope this helped!

 

[koffeeshop77]

i would recomend going with skylake,
A) cheaper
B) better overclockbilty
C) and the answer to your question no matter what you chosse is YES, it will help tremndously over you old phenom and the 270x. you might just want to update to the intel first and see how your r9 270x runs after that, as the intel systems are very much faster in genaral. over any AMD. 270x has not outlived it's lifespann yet, only the phenom has ans the board the phenom belongs to is just out dated.

 

[Djmasterman]

Yeah, the cpu just passes the bottleneck line lol, I am also looking for a cheap but good motherboard so thanks for the suggestion.
The 270x is one awesome card I mean I can gta 5 on high and very high at like 50-60 plus fps so the PC is still kickin'