want to upgrade my gaming PC for $200

[William Railing]

Check my profile for the specs of my system.

So I just built my new gaming PC and now I'm ready to upgrade again. I'm thinking that I should most likely upgrade my graphics card, but I'm not sure what to. My budget for this upgrade will be $200-$300.

 

[Usman Sajid]

Can u list other specs like cpu , power supply, current graphics card? Well u can get r9 285 for about 250$ and a nice power supply of about 600w.

 

[i7Baby]

For $200 you can get a R9 270x eg http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127761

For $300 you can get a R9 280x eg http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125490

For $340 you can get a GTX970 eg http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127833

 

[Usman Sajid]

For 249$ you can get this card which is quite close to r9 280x but you two free games aswell
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125679&cm_re=r9_285-_-14-125-679-_-Product

 

[William Railing]

my setup:
AMD A8-6600k
16gig ram
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti 2GB GDDR5
ASRock ATX DDR3 1600 FM2 Motherboard

 

[i7Baby]

Your CPU won't drive any sort of powerful graphics card. Just stick with the 560Ti.

 

[William Railing]

what kind of CPU would I need

 

[Usman Sajid]

Core i5 4790k

 

[William Railing]

Core i5 4790k

That is .2 gigahertz slower when the a8's turbo core is enabled

 

[ZeroRequiem]

Core i5 4790k

That is .2 gigahertz slower when the a8's turbo core is enabled

Gigahertz means nothing. Its all about efficiency, IPC, architecture, and that i7 4790k mops the ground with the A8.

 

[Raheel Hasan]

Dont see GHZ, intel and amd have different architectures. See the hierarchy below for gaming cpus. If ur budget is limited dont get the K version, just get a simple i5 4430 and a $60 H81/H87 motherboard, it will not bottleneck any card.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-cpu-review-overclock,3106-5.html

 

[RobCrezz]

Core i5 4790k

That is .2 gigahertz slower when the a8's turbo core is enabled

Ghz /= performance.