next logical and beneficial upgrade after OCd Phenom BE 965

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Hey guys so I built my baby a while back and love it to death. Here are some of the core specs

Cpu- Phenom 965 BE OC to 4.0
GPU- sapphire radeon 7870 Ghz Ed.
Motherboard- AsRock 970 pro3 with a AM3+ socket
ram- Corsair vengeance 8 GB 1866 (# could be off)


So I play all my games on ultimate graphics and love being able to handle anything thrown at me. THEN came battlefield 4. I was experiencing major lag and issues that I have only ever experienced with that single game. So my ultimate question is, what is the best next step for both CPU and GPU (I would prefer keeping my gpu) I only have an AM3+ socket and have read that the FX cores are a super small step up compared tk what I have now. What CPU or adjustment to my rig can I make (reasonably priced) to help combat future game demands and be able to return to playing on extreme graphics?!
 
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lmaonade200
Yes, technically an FX 6300/6350/8320/8350 would be the next logical step for an upgrade, its piledriver architecture makes it better handle threaded applications and sports higher IPC than the trusty phenoms. And best of all the mobo doesn't need upgrading since it's already a nice AM3+ socket from a good motherboard company, and since it can handle an OC from a phenom, it should handle an OC from a FX chip too. It's not that small as a step up and you believe it is imo, the phenoms still have competitive performance on the IPC side, phenom cores are strong, but the FX (especially the Piledriver x3xx ones) does improve slightly upon that, then adds in some nice multi-threading performance with their use of modules and higher integer...
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Yes, technically an FX 6300/6350/8320/8350 would be the next logical step for an upgrade, its piledriver architecture makes it better handle threaded applications and sports higher IPC than the trusty phenoms. And best of all the mobo doesn't need upgrading since it's already a nice AM3+ socket from a good motherboard company, and since it can handle an OC from a phenom, it should handle an OC from a FX chip too. It's not that small as a step up and you believe it is imo, the phenoms still have competitive performance on the IPC side, phenom cores are strong, but the FX (especially the Piledriver x3xx ones) does improve slightly upon that, then adds in some nice multi-threading performance with their use of modules and higher integer core count.

However, BF4 has plenty of problems that may or not be hardware related at all. Have you tried unparking your cores? A lot of people seemed to solve their performance issues with it, and it could be that your CPU is not actually bottlenecking but rather BF4's inability to utilize it correctly.
 
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Well if you want to improve your graphics, doesn't it make sense that you'd upgrade your Graphics Processing Unit? Maybe a GTX 770 or an r9 290x?
If you're getting frame hiccups odds are you're thrashing your GPU memory.
 
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