Want to Upgrade my Gaming RIG!!! Need Guidance.

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Oryx

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Hey all,

I usually have a buddy of mine upgrade and build out my gaming rig but we have had a falling out and was wondering if this lovely community could lend a hand. I want to run my comp flawlessly when it comes to gaming. I believe I need to upgrade my CPU and Graphics cards to do so.But I am not sure what to upgrade and what is compatible with what. Here are my specs and let me know if you need any other info. Thanks!

Oryx

SPECS:

CPU - AMD FX-6100 Zambezi 3.3GHz Socket AM3+ 95W Six-Core Desktop Processor
MOTHERBOARD - ASUS M5A99X EVO R2.0 AM3+ AMD 990X SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard with UEFI BIOS
RAM - G.SKILL Ripjaws Z Series 32GB (4 x 8GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 2133 (PC3 17000) Desktop Memory Model F3-2133C9Q-
GRAPHICS CARD - 2x (CROSSFIRE) HIS IceQ X H785QN2G2M Radeon HD 7850 2GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP
PSU - EVGA SuperNOVA NEX750G Gold Power Supply, 750 Watt 80 Plus
OS - Windows 7 64x
 
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I do like the FX 8350 since its pretty much all you need in a gaming PC. And while it is slow, single core wise, it fixes that with a lot of cores.
It won't bottleneck anything (apart from 10k$ builds) and it's gonna be hard to use all of it in games (even CPU dependent ones).

Do I recommend it? Considering that you already own that mobo I highly do.

Its only downside, however, is its high TDP which results in high temperature and high power consumption so you should get a decent cooler and thermal paste as well (PSU is OK for the power...
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Everything seems balanced to me (apart from the ram overkill).
What you could do though is upgrade CPU to some AMD 8 core (such as fx 8350 to keep the MOBO) or go for intel and get a new mobo and an i5.

My best answer would be for you to wait anyways.
That is beacuse your cards are already xfired and pretty strong and Intel is supposed to release 14nm line of CPUs later this year (broadwell, I think it's gonna fail but still).
It should run everything flawlessly as it is anyways, given full HD and cool enough temp.
 
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I think that might be my problem, is that I dont have it cool enough. Might look into adding some cooling tech. But if i wanted to upgrade the CPU further, you recommend the FX 8350?

 
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I do like the FX 8350 since its pretty much all you need in a gaming PC. And while it is slow, single core wise, it fixes that with a lot of cores.
It won't bottleneck anything (apart from 10k$ builds) and it's gonna be hard to use all of it in games (even CPU dependent ones).

Do I recommend it? Considering that you already own that mobo I highly do.

Its only downside, however, is its high TDP which results in high temperature and high power consumption so you should get a decent cooler and thermal paste as well (PSU is OK for the power though).
So if you don't overclock it (or at least if you don't by much) I'd say get something like 212 EVO ( http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835103099&cm_re=212_evo-_-35-103-099-_-Product ). Also I hope you already have 2 case fans.
 
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Already a step ahead of you. Thanks for your help bud. I'll be ordering this today.

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