[SOLVED] Should I upgrade CPU OR GPU??

[alexandremelano]

Hello everyone,

I am looking to upgrade some of my current build. I live in Canada and find canadacomputers.ca to be the cheapest part supplier. I am hoping to spend roughly 400$

On to my build... I have:

Operating System
Windows 10 Home 64-bit
CPU
Intel Core i5 4460 @ 3.20GHz 56 °C
Haswell 22nm Technology
RAM
8.00GB Single-Channel DDR3 @ 799MHz (10-10-10-30)
Motherboard
ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. B85M-D PLUS (SOCKET 1150) 39 °C
Graphics
SCEI MONITOR (1920x1080@60Hz)
SCEI MONITOR (1920x1080@60Hz)
4095MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 (EVGA) 69 °C
Storage
931GB Seagate ST1000DM003-1ER162 (SATA) 28 °C
232GB Samsung SSD 850 EVO 250GB (SSD) 36 °C
Optical Drives
No optical disk drives detected
Audio
Realtek High Definition Audio

I was considering upgrading my processor to an Ryzen r7 2700x since it is on sale for half price and canadacomputers(220$). However they have decent GPU's on sale.

What would be my most beneficial upgrade? Since if I change my CPU I will need a new motherboard and RAM (Which probably needs changing anyways) 800mhz.... youch.

 

[stefanos50]

CPU: Ryzen 5 3600 (~175$) OR Ryzen 7 2700X
Mobo: B450 Tomahawk Max (~110$)
Ram: F4-3200C16D-16GVKB 2x8 3200Mhz (70$)

Personally i would go with 3600 rather the 2700X especially for gaming. Better single core performance , at lower power consumption (because 3600 is at 7nm while 2700X at 12nm) and the multicore performance difference is really not that big. 3600 will perform the same at multicore task as a stock 2700 (non X) will do.