What should I upgrade on my PC?

[itzjinx7]

Lately in games like Black Ops 4 and GTA 5 i have been experiencing fps drops and sudden freezes that last about 1-3 seconds each and they happen every 30 or so seconds. I never had this issue before and it just suddenly started happening. As you know christmas is coming up and I do not know what I should upgrade on my pc. I also do not know if I even need to upgrade anything. I have reset my pc and it is still happening.

My pc specs are

Processor: AMD FX-8350 Vishera Quad Core 4.0 GHz / 4.2 GHz Turbo
Motherboard:AM3+ 970 Chipset Gaming Motherbaord
Graphics: Nvidia Geforce GTX 1060 3GB
Memory: High Performance 8GB DDR3 1866 MHz Gaming Memory
Hard Disk: 120GB SSD & 1TB 7200 RPM Hard Drive
Power Supply: 600 Watts High Performance 80 PLUS Certified Power Supply
Operating System Windows 10 Professional 64-bit

 

[volkgren]

What is the exact motherboard you have? A lot of cheaper motherboards can have overheating issues with the VRM when paired with the 125W FX-8350.

What is the exact power supply you have? A lot of cheaper power supplies can say whatever they want, but that doesn't mean they are capable of doing that. Though, your power supply is likely not the issue here.

You could benefit from a new CPU/Mobo/DDR4 RAM setup.

 

[itzjinx7]

What is the exact motherboard you have? A lot of cheaper motherboards can have overheating issues with the VRM when paired with the 125W FX-8350.

What is the exact power supply you have? A lot of cheaper power supplies can say whatever they want, but that doesn't mean they are capable of doing that. Though, your power supply is likely not the issue here.

You could benefit from a new CPU/Mobo/DDR4 RAM setup.

the motherboard i have is a "GIGABYTE GA-78LMT-USB3 R2 AM3+/AM3 AMD 760G USB 3.1 HDMI Micro ATX AMD Motherboard" im pretty sure. The powersupply is a 600w thermaltake powersupply

 

[itzjinx7]

i was thinking of either buying a ryzen 5 2600 with a asus v450 am4 mobo and 16gb of dd4 corsair vengeance ram, but I dont know if I should just get a graphics card instead

 

[volkgren]

i was thinking of either buying a ryzen 5 2600 with a asus v450 am4 mobo and 16gb of dd4 corsair vengeance ram, but I dont know if I should just get a graphics card instead

I think the Ryzen upgrade is a good idea. +1