Recommendations For Gaming Pc Upgrades

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Hello Tom's hardware community! Ive been using my PC for about 1.5 years and I love it! Unfortunately I feel it may be falling behind the PC genre atm. I would like you guys to recommend me some new gaming hardware!
Specs
Cpu: AMD fx 4300 black edition
Ram: 1x4 crucial ram 1x4 corsair vengeance blue
Storage : 1tb WD drive 500 GB toshiba drive that I ripped out of my old laptop
Psu: corsair cx600
Video card : sapphire Radeon hd 7870 ghz edition
Mother board: asus m5a97

 
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Phil923
As you are probably aware, switching to an intel platform is quite expensive.

What I would recommend to you is a locked i5 for the best value for performance. These can run any GPU at this point in time and will last quite a few years until you need to upgrade.

Here is what I would suggest:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4460 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor ($176.98 @ NCIX US)
Motherboard: ASRock H97 PRO4 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($81.89 @ OutletPC)
Total: $258.87
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-06-08 01:08 EDT-0400
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The first thing that I would upgrade is probably the CPU, the 4300 is a relatively weak CPU and that appears to be the biggest bottleneck in your system and without a decent overclock. The 7870 is still a good 1080p gaming GPU so unless you want to play things on ultra it should be a pretty decent card.
 
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Ah okay what cpu do you reccomend? because if I get a intel core cpu then I will have to buy a new mobo. And overclocking on my mother board is quite terrible :p
 
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As you are probably aware, switching to an intel platform is quite expensive.

What I would recommend to you is a locked i5 for the best value for performance. These can run any GPU at this point in time and will last quite a few years until you need to upgrade.

Here is what I would suggest:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4460 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor ($176.98 @ NCIX US)
Motherboard: ASRock H97 PRO4 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($81.89 @ OutletPC)
Total: $258.87
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-06-08 01:08 EDT-0400
 
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