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Upgrading 2.5 year old gaming rig, budget $150-300

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August 26, 2014 1:47:14 AM

Hello everyone. This is the second rig I bought thinking I knew what I was doing a few years ago. I've never really been able to run my game library on high settings or at high FPS (30 is about as good as it gets during real gameplay when not standing around). I'm looking to spend some of my college graduation money on some upgrades and was hoping the community can help me put it someplace intelligent.

I'm looking to upgrade soon. Immediately if the price is right, or by late September if it looks like I need to invest a bit more. I use my rig for gaming. The types of games I play include Real-time/turn based strategy (Civilization 5, Shogun/Rome 2 Total War type), role playing games (Witcher 2, Dark Souls 2, Mass Effect 3, Skyrim), First person/third person shooters (RAGE, Fallout: New Vegas). Basically, I play most genres and could be correctly identified as a hardcore gamer.

My current GPU is a AMD Radeon HD 6850 1GB PCI Express Graphics and my power supply is 700W (sorry I can't be more specific on the model). Other specifications: I have 8 GB 1333 DDR3 RAM (4GB x 2; I have 4 slots), AMD FX-8120 8-core (3.1GHz) processor, MoBo is AMD 970, HD is 1TB SATA III 7200 RPM. The full specs of my rig can be found here. Sorry if I missed anything important, I'm trying to learn the important bits as I go.

I don't have a particular bias towards PC parts as long as they are reliable and won't give out on me. I've never overclocked my system, but I think my case is built for it (Coolermaster HAF 912 Gaming Case). I run at 1920x1080 resolution. Honestly, I just want to be able to run my games at 60 FPS on high. Since most of my games are older, this shouldn't be a tall order I don't think yet I can't seem to do so currently. Thanks for your help, I hope I made it easy to help me.

EDIT: The MobO is Gigabyte GA-970A-D3

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a b 4 Gaming
August 26, 2014 1:54:02 AM

Don't change your CPU, Mobo and RAM. Just grab R9 280x/GTX 770 and it will do the job.
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a b 4 Gaming
August 26, 2014 2:13:12 AM

Specifically what motherboard is it?
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a c 205 4 Gaming
August 26, 2014 2:14:29 AM

if you can wait a few weeks nvidia may be dropping newer gpu. amd just drop the 285 cards.
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a b 4 Gaming
August 26, 2014 2:27:19 AM

EasyLover said:
Don't change your CPU, Mobo and RAM. Just grab R9 280x/GTX 770 and it will do the job.


I agree.
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