Planning to buy 1070. What is my limiting component?

[RenWade]

I'm planning on upgrading my R7 260x to a 1070 pretty much as soon as it's out. And I wanted to know what should I absolutely upgrade in my system.

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  ■ ASUS M5A78L-M LX3 Motherboard (PCIe 2.0)
  ■Gigabyte R7 260x
  ■AMD FX-4300 (this has to go for sure)
  ■Sentey BRP500 (I think 500W might be just enough)
  ■8GB DDR3 (one stick)
  ■Some 7200 rpm HDD

Ok so, I have almost 700 US$ to spend, but I'm probably wasting $530 of it on the GPU and an SSD. So what is the number one priority to avoid bottlenecking my system? Considering I have less than 200 bucks to spend.

 

[turkey3_scratch]

Your CPU is limiting. That PSU also has unknown quality, I would not trust it.

Upgrade to a Skylake I5 and get a quality PSU. And DDR4 memory.

About $275-$300 for CPU
$100-$150 for mobo
$80 for RAM
$90 for PSU

Cheaper than $700.

 

[Nuckles_56]

Okay, you will also want to replace the PSU as it is a poor quality unit and I wouldn't trust it with such expensive hardware. I would say that you would be better off adding the SSD in later and using the extra money from that to ensure that you get a better CPU and PSU. Also, why do you say the GPU will be $530, as it is expected to be $440 USD on release, so you should have a bit more money there

 

[turkey3_scratch]

Oops I missed the part about $530 of the $700 going to the GPU. You either have to raise that budget a lot or forget the whole idea of getting a 1070.

 

[joshyboy82]

I'm just going to throw this out, until reviews are out, take this with a grain of salt. On Anandtech's livestream of the Nvidia Event, Jen Hsung said the 1080 is more powerful than 980 SLI. That statement alone gave me pause, maybe can find some extra scratch to spend. Just sayin'

 

[dudeman509]

Motherboard and CPU both need to go. The only more powerful one you can really put in there would be a 6-core; it won't handle the 8's.