Should I upgrade FX-4300 or RX 460 4gb

[camdenlink7]

I am going to upgrade my low end gaming PC soon. I have an FX-4300 CPU and a RX 460 4gb GPU. Should I upgrade my CPU or GPU, if I upgrade my CPU I am willing to switch my motherboard as well. For example I was looking at the i5-8600k and a motherboard for it. Thanks!

 

[speedchampion2004]

I am going to upgrade my low end gaming PC soon. I have an FX-4300 CPU and a RX 460 4gb GPU. Should I upgrade my CPU or GPU, if I upgrade my CPU I am willing to switch my motherboard as well. For example I was looking at the i5-8600k and a motherboard for it. Thanks!

Depends. But seems like your PC is pretty balanced. If you upgrade either one, you will be bottlenecked by the other part, so instead of upgrading the cpu or gpu, see if you find any part of the pc that is holding back the pc such as the ram, psu, display, etc.

 

[ElectrO_90]

If you upgrade your motherboard, you got to upgrade your RAM as well and it gets very expensive.
I personally would do GPU, then when I got the cash go for Ryzen/mobo/ram

 

[adragoncalledgeorge]

Definitely upgrade your AMD FX 4300 CPU series because now the minimum requirements for modern games is the FX 6300 though I would recommend the AMD Ryzen 5 1500 or the 1600x or anything around that. Though the Ryzen 3 1200 would also be an okay upgrade. The RX 460 should be able to run games okay due to the 4gb of Vram at least on the lowest settings. Definitely get the CPU, ram, and motherboard first if you can. Then save up for a new graphics card. You don't want your old CPU to bottleneck a new graphics card. And the graphics card you have now is new enough so it shouldn't bottleneck a newer CPU that badly. Just a thought.

 

[t99]

Go with the CPU to a Ryzen.

 

[Finstar]

+1 for Ryzen 5. That old FX is holding you back way more than the RX 460.
You can always drop down graphics settings to ease the load on your gpu, but you generally can't drop down the demand for cpu power.