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Sterling Fuchsberger

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I am currently looking to upgrade my gaming PC CPU and graphics card. For my graphics card I will be waiting for the amd 380x or higher. My current CPU is an amd 4170. I know this processor will probably bottleneck the new GPU and was wondering if I should upgrade to the new amd fx 8370, wait for amd to release a new set of am3+ compatible cpus if they ever do, or should I just switch to a intel i5 4690k and a new mobo? Thanks in advance!
 
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At this point there likely isn't going to be anything new on the AM3+ platform, AMD has pretty much abandoned it and are making APUs exclusively now.

As far as gaming performance goes, your best upgrade option is to switch to Intel, but it will be the most expensive option as you need a new motherboard as well. A Piledriver CPU is a cheaper option, but for most games it's not going to be much faster than your current CPU. Most titles still aren't really scaling beyond 4 cores, so the higher core count is pretty much useless unless you also use heavily threaded productivity software or run CPU intensive applications while gaming. Piledriver does offer stronger single core performance compared to Bulldozer, but it's still not that...
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At this point there likely isn't going to be anything new on the AM3+ platform, AMD has pretty much abandoned it and are making APUs exclusively now.

As far as gaming performance goes, your best upgrade option is to switch to Intel, but it will be the most expensive option as you need a new motherboard as well. A Piledriver CPU is a cheaper option, but for most games it's not going to be much faster than your current CPU. Most titles still aren't really scaling beyond 4 cores, so the higher core count is pretty much useless unless you also use heavily threaded productivity software or run CPU intensive applications while gaming. Piledriver does offer stronger single core performance compared to Bulldozer, but it's still not that great, and for optimal gaming performance with a high end GPU on an FX chip you pretty much have to overclock (assuming you have a high quality motherboard with sufficiently robust voltage regulation and an aftermaket CPU cooler, those are potential extra costs if you don't already have those)
 
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