Upgrading Old Build For Sim Racing

[Newbiegaming]

Hey guys!

I just recently got back to that gaming life and my pc is not handling the games I wanna play anymore.

I've just recently started playing racing games since I got myself a G25 wheel and I'm having a lot of fun.

Games I wanna play after the upgrade:
Forza Horizon 3
Grid
iracing
live for speed
Battlefield 1
Call of Duty

My current build:
CPU: AMD FX4130 3.8Ghz 4 core
MB: ASUS M5A97 R2.0
RAM: 8GB DDR3 1600MHZ KINGSTON
HDD: WESTERN DIGITAL CAVIAR BLUE 1TB
GPU: NVIDIA GT 740 2GB GDDR5
PSU: CORSAIR CX600 WATTS PSU
CASE: CORSAIR 230T

I wanna upgrade that so I can play forza at 1080p high settings 60fps. And the other games 1080p 60fps aswell (high atleast)

I dont have much money to spend so I am kinda looking for the best components for the money here.

Another thing is, I live in portugal so I have to buy everything in portuguese stores.

Here are some:
https://www.pcdiga.com/
http://www.chiptec.net/
http://www.nanochip.pt/

Would really appreciatte the help!

Thank you!

 

[greens]

RX 480 or GTX 1060 would give you a great experience.
RX 480 if you plan on going to an Eyefinity setup with 3 monitors to round out your simulator set up.

 

[Newbiegaming]

But what about the cpu and ram, will it be fine for forza? and wont it bottleneck rx480?

 

[Newbiegaming]

Thank you for your help!!

 

[RCFProd]

I play Forza Horizon 3 at 1080p@75fps wth an i5-4690+RX 480GB.

I'd say for games like Forza Horizon you do want 8GB VRAM. Forza Motorsport 6 and Horizon on PC use more than 6GB VRAM at times.

You really need to upgrade your CPU if you want to play those at 60 fps on PC.

So what's your total budget?

 

[Newbiegaming]

400€, I thought so..

 

[Newbiegaming]

My cpu is nothing compared to your i5 ahah

 

[RCFProd]

FX-8300 https://www.pcdiga.com/amd-fx-8300-4-2ghz-be-skam3-fd8300wmhkbox
GTX 1060 6GB https://www.pcdiga.com/graficas-nvidia/msi-geforce-gtx-1060-armor-6g-v1

Fits in your budget and is arguably the strongest combo.

 

[Newbiegaming]

Thank you very much, gonna take a look at some benchmarks!

 

[RCFProd]

Sure, I'm not sure how well the FX-8300 does in Forza Horizon but the game uses 8 threads so it shouldn't be bad.

Forza Motorsport 6 Apex seems to hold on to 60 fps easily.

 

[lilietto]

Look, i live in italy, i suppose prices aren't too diffrent in portugal.
You could buy fx 6350 + rx480 and stay in your budget. You could also look for used Fx-6300s...people are selling those.
And here in italy i find R9 290-380-390 used from 150 to 200€...you'd spare some money

 

[Newbiegaming]

Idk if its a good idea or not to buy used hardware but.. fx6300 will bottleneck a 960 right?

 

[RCFProd]

Idk if its a good idea or not to buy used hardware but.. fx6300 will bottleneck a 960 right?

Depends on the game really. Not all games.

 

[RCFProd]

Idk if its a good idea or not to buy used hardware but.. fx6300 will bottleneck a 960 right?

Depends on the game really. Not all games.