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I have a gaming PC that I picked up on a budget last year. It's been great but now that I have a steady job I want to start to get a little bit more advanced and a bit more experienced with adding pieces myself.

My current specs can run most things at fairly high settings with some glitches every now and then.

My question is, what should I upgrade to get the best overall performance enhancement.

My components:
Radeon HD 6850 1GB
AMD Athlon II
8 GB (2x4GB) of RAM
500 Watt PSU
500 GB HDD

My motherboard does not support crossfire unfortunately as it only has room for one graphics card.
 
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Considering you already have DDR3, you're on a good start. I would start with Mobo, CPU and GPU and a better PSU for your GPU as most GPU nowadays require a substantial amount power. anything from Seasonic, Corsair is good stuff. From there you can opt for higher DDR3 ram, considering you only have 1333Mhz, and eventually an SSD.
If you are on a budget, you can keep the motherboard and put in an AMD FX processor, like an 8320 or an 8350 at lease you would get rid of potential bottleneck once you upgrade your GPU
Happy build
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Definitely the Processor and motherboard and you will have no choice to upgrade the ram as well considering you have DDR2 and todays motherboards use DDR3. From there, you can add an SSD, then eventually a better video card. But I would start with the processor because you will and/or have experienced bottle neck with that processor
 
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My RAM is 1333 MHz which I believe is DDR3 if I'm not mistaken. That's the highest my motherboard supports so I would need a better motherboard before switching to 1600 or 2000MHz RAM which I plan to do eventually. But is a motherboard necessary for the processor upgrade at the time?
 
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How powerful of a PSU would you recommend? I've seen some 850 Watts at reasonable prices but I recently looked into having crossfire cards and the recommended level was 1200 Watts to run two cards. Is this overkill for modern GPU's or in the ballpark?
 
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PSU's with at least 550W-600W power should be enough for both GTX and AMD Radeon. Your other parts will bottleneck the GPU, though. If I were you I'd try to upgrade motherboard, CPU and GPU (and RAM if it isn't DDR3).
 
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I have the MSI 760GM-E51 motherboard
and the Athlon II X3 3.1GHz Processor
 
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Considering you already have DDR3, you're on a good start. I would start with Mobo, CPU and GPU and a better PSU for your GPU as most GPU nowadays require a substantial amount power. anything from Seasonic, Corsair is good stuff. From there you can opt for higher DDR3 ram, considering you only have 1333Mhz, and eventually an SSD.
If you are on a budget, you can keep the motherboard and put in an AMD FX processor, like an 8320 or an 8350 at lease you would get rid of potential bottleneck once you upgrade your GPU
Happy build
 
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