want to upgrade my gaming PC for $200

William Railing · Sep 24, 2014

Check my profile for the specs of my system.

So I just built my new gaming PC and now I'm ready to upgrade again. I'm thinking that I should most likely upgrade my graphics card, but I'm not sure what to. My budget for this upgrade will be $200-$300.

Usman Sajid · Sep 24, 2014

Can u list other specs like cpu , power supply, current graphics card? Well u can get r9 285 for about 250$ and a nice power supply of about 600w.

i7Baby · Sep 24, 2014

For $200 you can get a R9 270x eg http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127761

For $300 you can get a R9 280x eg http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125490

For $340 you can get a GTX970 eg http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127833

Usman Sajid · Sep 24, 2014

For 249$ you can get this card which is quite close to r9 280x but you two free games aswell
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125679&cm_re=r9_285-_-14-125-679-_-Product

William Railing · Sep 26, 2014

my setup:
AMD A8-6600k
16gig ram
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti 2GB GDDR5
ASRock ATX DDR3 1600 FM2 Motherboard

i7Baby · Sep 26, 2014

Your CPU won't drive any sort of powerful graphics card. Just stick with the 560Ti.

William Railing · Sep 26, 2014

what kind of CPU would I need

Usman Sajid · Sep 26, 2014

Core i5 4790k

William Railing · Sep 26, 2014

Usman Sajid :

That is .2 gigahertz slower when the a8's turbo core is enabled

ZeroRequiem · Sep 26, 2014

William Railing :

Gigahertz means nothing. Its all about efficiency, IPC, architecture, and that i7 4790k mops the ground with the A8.

Raheel Hasan · Sep 26, 2014

Dont see GHZ, intel and amd have different architectures. See the hierarchy below for gaming cpus. If ur budget is limited dont get the K version, just get a simple i5 4430 and a $60 H81/H87 motherboard, it will not bottleneck any card.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-cpu-review-overclock,3106-5.html

RobCrezz · Sep 26, 2014

William Railing :

Ghz /= performance.

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