Should i upgrade my CPU & motherboard or just GPU?

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As the title says;
I'm currently having a AMD A10-6800k CPU with a Asus ROG Crossblade ranger Motherboard
and AMD radeon r7 265 graphics card.
I need an upgrade, im playing CS:GO (And only cs:go) but im running between 80-150 FPS. It rarely gets over. If i play DM im sitting on a stable 80 fps.

Basicly what i want is more fps. :)
 
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They both could use an upgrade.

I'd go with a Ryzen (formerly Zen) CPU but I can't recommend any specific model until we see professional reviews.

I would probably recommend the RX 470 for you. It offers slightly less compute power than the RX 480, but that doesn't matter too much to games. The difference between the two is less than 10 FPS. Custom RX 470s made for OC can be had for the price of lower end RX 480s.
 
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What is ryzen?
Justicenacan I am going to upgrade everything, but i just want to buy 1 thing right now because i'm not floating in $$, but i need some more fps very soon 😀
 
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Ryzen is AMD's new CPU lineup coming up in a few weeks. They've included SMT (supposed to compete with Intel HyperThreading) in all their processors to make sure that they don't repeat their former mistakes.

Salazar Studio: How Many Cores to AMD FX Processors Actually Have? Although this issue doesn't apply to APUs like yours, it played a big part in the design process of Ryzen.

They're also claiming a 40% IPC improvement, which should put them close to being on par with Skylake (Intel 6th gen, last year) at the same clocks (demonstrations show 3GHz on all competing chips). I say Skylake and not Kaby Lake (Intel 7th gen, this year) because there was no IPC improvement between Skylake and Kaby Lake. Without proper competition from AMD, Intel apparently became complacent and crapped out Kaby Lake.

For now, your current APU can drive an RX 470 without issue.

Update: Code is fixed. The link should work now.
 
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Damn. You really know your shit. :>
If i buy this RX 470 what kind should i buy? MSI? GeForce? And what GB 😀
Im a newbie when it comes to computers. I know how to plug it in and the basics, but not all the advanced stuff 😀
 
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Well the good news is that admitting that you don't know is the hardest part of this post. 😀

As for the graphics card, the MSI Armor RX 470 4GB looks like it's going to be the best bang for your buck.

Do you know how to fresh install drivers? This should be done when you change a graphics card.

Edit: I can't believe I forgot to include the link. Here you go xD http://pcpartpicker.com/product/7wkwrH/msi-radeon-rx-470-4gb-armor-oc-video-card-radeon-rx-470-armor-4g-oc
 
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Not a fresh Windows install, a fresh driver install.

It goes like this:
1) Download DDU. http://www.guru3d.com/files-details/display-driver-uninstaller-download.html
2) Extract the files to a convenient location.
3) Reboot into Safe Mode.
4) Run the copy of DDU that you just extracted and use it to remove the graphics drivers.
5) Turn the machine off and exchange the old graphics card for the new graphics card.
6) Boot normally and download official GPU drivers from the manufacturers website. http://support.amd.com/en-us/download
7) Restart normally to make sure all changes have applied.
8) Feel free to delete the DDU files at this point.
9) That's it! You're done. Now the old 200 series drivers can't interfere with the new 400 series drivers because the 200 series drivers aren't there anymore. Note that the 200 series drivers are a different pack than the 400 series drivers and the two don't exactly get along very well, so that's why I recommend doing this.
 
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The drivers for the 200 and 300 series cards are in a pack that includes a file named atieclxx.exe which has only given me problem after problem. This file seems to be partly responsible for the terrible driver optimization of the 200/300 series and it's almost always the file that causes errors when other driver packs are installed (whether other AMD drivers or Nvidia drivers). I've linked a couple of my posts just to give you an idea of how frustrating this file is.

http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-3273993/games-crash-computer-shuts-stumped.html

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-3297555/windows-pain.html
 
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