what should i go with amd fx 6350 or r9 280x

pathil123

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my birthday recently passed and i am able to choose what i want i was wanting to upgrade my rig and was planning on buying a r9 280x but now im afraid i might get bottlenecked my cpu right now is a amd fx 4130 would i or should i just buy a amd fx 6350 and buy a gpu in the future my system specs are 8 gbs of corsair vengance ram the motherboard is a msi 970a-g46 the gpu is a gigabyte radeon 6950 1gb the cpu is a amd fx 4130 thanks for the replys. :)
 
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save a little and get a gtx 970 :D

but if you really want to upgrade now - i suggest for the 280x, you will see more of a performance boost on getting a 280x compared to the 6350 - you could just overlock your FX-4130 to get comparable performance to the FX-6350

Sig2525

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save a little and get a gtx 970 :D

but if you really want to upgrade now - i suggest for the 280x, you will see more of a performance boost on getting a 280x compared to the 6350 - you could just overlock your FX-4130 to get comparable performance to the FX-6350
 
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