what should I upgrade to get the best gaming performance? (under 500 dollars)

abellencz

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Here are my specs:

AMD FX- 6100 (with CM Hyper 412s cooler)
NVIDIA GTX 560
8GB Corsair XMS3
1 TB WD Black
CM Silencio 550 case

Thanks!
 

abellencz

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what would you recommend? should i wait for ddr4 compatible motherboards/cpu or buy one now?
unfortunately my budget is not enough to upgrade all 3 of the parts so I can choose one.. :/
 

abellencz

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for example assassin's creed 4 works without any problems but Battefield 4 is reaching around 30fps avg. on medium settings.

would there be an increase in perfomance if I upgrade to a something like GTX 660 or would the CPU be bottlenecking the new GPU?
 
i dont think it would be worth the upgrade.... it just costs too much and the perf increase is too small to justify the price. if you find another NVIDIA GTX 560 to use in sli , yes, that would get you some reasonable gains for the cost.

my personal opinion would be to search for such a gpu and if you find one reasonably prices get one, if not bear with the lower settings till you upgrade on the next gen cpu/mobo/gpu-s. right now, you have a mid range build, but upgrading to a higher end simply means canning all your current cpu, gpu and mobo. they still have life in them for about 1-2 years.
 

abellencz

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I looked into buying an additional graphics card so I can SLI but it would cost me the same as a new GTX 760..
 

Drakkozoid

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I had problems playing BF4 on medium with a GTX 560 ti. Upgraded to an MSI GTX 760 2gb for 250.00 and now I can run BF4 in ultra at 40-50 fps, and on high (which to me is about the same) at 50-70 fps. Very happy with the purchase. I'm running an intel i5 750 (2.6ghz) and 8gb ram. I would try upgrading the video card first, you should see major results. I think I heard somewhere that BF4 uses 4 cores on the processors, so invest on a good cpu later on. I'm saving for an i7 4770k.

Hope this helps.