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Hello all,
I was recently in the upgrading spirit, and decided it was time to go out and spend some more money on the glorified chunk of silicon sitting under my desk. What with the upcoming sale on Amazon, I thought I would either get this GPU, as an upgrade from this one, or this CPU, as an upgrade from this one. My question is, what do you think would be the most worthwhile upgrade? I have checked all possible incompatibilities, and found nothing that would prevent me from running either of these components smoothly. As it is Amazon's 20th anniversary, I would expect deals of more than 20% off. Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks so much!
 
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I would go with a new CPU. The GPU isn't very much better, and the GTX 650 should still play most games at 1080p at medium-low at the lowest. I have a Radeon HD 7790 and I can run GTA5 at 1080p, 60 FPS.

Just get a 6300. You don't need a 6350, and it's not worth the extra money. You can overclock your processor easily to match it. If you can, get the 8320.

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Currently I am running a Gigabyte GA-78LMT-USB3 mobo, with 8 GB of Corsair Vengeance ram, an AMD FX - 4130 OC'd to 4.1 GHz, an EVGA GTX 650 with 2GB of VRAM, and a couple of random HDDs w/ 1 120GB SSD.
 
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I would go with a new CPU. The GPU isn't very much better, and the GTX 650 should still play most games at 1080p at medium-low at the lowest. I have a Radeon HD 7790 and I can run GTA5 at 1080p, 60 FPS.

Just get a 6300. You don't need a 6350, and it's not worth the extra money. You can overclock your processor easily to match it. If you can, get the 8320.

 
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Thank you! I think I will wait and see how much it will be on sale, but I'll probably end up going with the CPU.
 
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Oh, and if you'll ever get a new graphics card, then I'd look into eBay. I actually got my HD 7790 from there. Used graphics cards and RAM are usually similar to new ones.
 
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