Upgrading or buying all new?

Tom01

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Hi guys I have this PC:

Source: Corsair VS550
Motherboard: Asus Crossblade Ranger
RAM: Kingston HyperX Fury 2x8GB
CPU: AMD Athlon X4 860K
CPU cooler: Raijintek Themis
GPU: MSI R9 280 Gaming 3G
I have a Samsung ssd 850 EVO for games.

I would like higher performance because I need to run games on medium/low to have decent fps. I want to ask you, should I just upgrade my gpu/cpu, or should I buy an entirely new pc? If I should buy a pc in like half a year/year from now, should I go with amd or intel cpu? I'd like to keep the build under 1,5k €, I mainly play WoW and BF4 + the new BF1. Thank you for your time
Tom
 
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I agree with Rogue Leader. Here would be something I'd recommend under 800 (if you live in USA) it's barely over ($3) but should perform nicely, at least better than what you have, likely.
http://pcpartpicker.com/list/92ysLD
Ideally...
-Wipe that SSD and reuse it for the OS unless you have a non-OEM edition of Windows.
-More powerful Polaris GPU or go NVIDIA Pascal if you want more performance
-DVD Drive if you need it
-i5 6600k if you plan on overclocking a lot, and maybe a good closed loop water cooler too

Which would probably bridge the gap to $1000

Depends on your budget I suppose...

EDIT : Saw your next post Tom01

AMD and NVIDIA Both released new GPU's very recently (like, within the last 4 months I think, dont remember the...
There is no CPU upgrade path for that system, you will need a new Intel Motherboard and CPU. Nothing AMD is worth buying right now until Zen comes out.

You can upgrade the GPU but with that processor I would not, it will hold you back. You should build a new system with new CPU, motherboard, and GPU if you want to improve from what you have.
 
I agree with Rogue Leader. Here would be something I'd recommend under 800 (if you live in USA) it's barely over ($3) but should perform nicely, at least better than what you have, likely.
http://pcpartpicker.com/list/92ysLD
Ideally...
-Wipe that SSD and reuse it for the OS unless you have a non-OEM edition of Windows.
-More powerful Polaris GPU or go NVIDIA Pascal if you want more performance
-DVD Drive if you need it
-i5 6600k if you plan on overclocking a lot, and maybe a good closed loop water cooler too

Which would probably bridge the gap to $1000

Depends on your budget I suppose...

EDIT : Saw your next post Tom01

AMD and NVIDIA Both released new GPU's very recently (like, within the last 4 months I think, dont remember the exact day) and they are very good. You shouldn't worry much about waiting for the next generation unless you are a pure elitist.

As for CPU's, AMD Zen should come out before 2017. For now, Intel Skylake is the way to go for most gamers.
 
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Thank you for your answers, but I probably won't have enough money until next year, so I might wait until next gen of GPUs and as for the CPU, well we'll all see how the new Zen line turns out.
Tom