Should I Upgrade or Wait For A New Build?

[MrSuperSnake]

Hi guys so I was wondering if I should keep my gaming system now, upgrade it now, or wait for new components to release. I'm looking to play all the newest tripple a games (GTA V, Fallout 4, Far cry primal, Star wars battlefront etc.) , maxed out 60+ FPS. Thanks!

Current Build (Almost 3 years old):
CPU: AMD FX-8350 4.2 Ghz
Water Cooler: Corsair Hydro Series H100i GTX
RAM: 8 GB 1600 MHz (1x8GB)
Video Card: XFX Radeon HD 7970 3 GB GDDR5 OverClocked
Motherboard: ASUS M5A99FX Pro R2.0 Socket AM3+
SSD: Sandisk 120 GB
Hard Drive: Western Digital 1 TB

Upgrade:
I was thinking of upgrading to a FX 9590, 16Gbs and a R9 390 but I was also wondering if I should maybe
keep my build, wait a year or so for AMD to release their new R9 4xx series or whatever it will be called and AMDs new CPU.

 

[Karadjgne]

The 9590 isn't an upgrade. It's the exact same cpu as you already own overclocked by the factory, which includes a huge jump in thermals. There are a relative few motherboards capable of physically dealing with the 200+w TDP of that cpu vrs the current 125w of the 8350. You can get the exact same performance by doing a manual OC yourself, with sufficient cooling. Forget swapping cpus, its honestly a waste of time, cash and effort for the same performance you can already get by bumping OC to 4.8GHz-5.0GHz.

As for waiting on Zen, there's no telling exactly if it's going to be worth the wait, or exactly when it'll be released. Supposedly it'll be a 40% increase in single thread speeds, which even then only puts it at about Ivy-Bridge to Haswell speeds and capability at best. The performance you are wanting really warrants an intel based pc, amd is great for budget, but you aren't looking at budget capability.

The r9 390 with your current cpu will max just about everything at 60Hz 1080p and will run very high to ultra in 1440p in most games.

A 2x8Gb kit wouldn't hurt and will show a performance increase over a single 1x8Gb kit, simply because of dual channel usage, not because of size. If programs/games are encroaching on the 8Gb now, then 16Gb will be a buffer there, but as it stands 8Gb is a minimum for decent performance without backlog.