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So for a while now i've been looking at purchasing a new gpu: the r9 390. But lately i've been worrying a lot about the bottleneck that is my current processor. I have an fx-6100 overclocked to currently 3.8ghz. And i know this will be a bottleneck is the newer games

If going for the cpu/mobo first i'd take me months before i have the money to upgrade the gpu.
I'm looking at getting the i5 4690k combined with a decent motherboard.

So my question is: Should i upgrade my cpu/motherboard first or just go for the gpu first?
 
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it depends on the game. the i5 4690k will take away the lead in cpu bound games and games that cant use more than 2-4 cores, but the 8350 does quite well on many current games. There are some games though, where it will drop to near the 30fps mark. But since you have a 7770, i would suggest going mid-way with the gpu upgrade, and going to a 6350 or 8350 in tandem. Best to have a balanced system than all one way or the other. Something like an 8350 with a r9 280x would be a good combo with no...
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Will the bottleneck really be that bad? To me it seems like upgrading the cpu will not give me a lot of performance at that time, but upgrading the gpu will still give me a little better performance in games in the beginning anyway.

 
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again, what is your current gpu.
Also keep in mind, that while a gpu upgrade will probably give higher average and peak fps overall, a poor performing cpu can cause stuttering and low fps dips regardless of graphics card. This can make the game seem less smooth than if you just had a fast cpu and average gpu.
 
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Oh sorry i hadn't gotten your response yet, my current gpu is a gigabyte hd 7770.

Mostly i'm looking to playing heavily modded skyrim with the new card. Currently my gpu and cpu load on skyrim is 100/50 % respectively.
 
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I've read that the fx-8350 barely competes with the i5 4690k? Or is that all just intel shilling?
 
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Yes, it will, I was running a i5 2400 sandybridge with a GTX 770 GPU and with BF4 in ultra, the FPS will go from 70 to 30 FPS at times, upgraded to a i7 4790K and now my average FPS is 90 and I see it goes up to 130FPS with V-Sync disabled of course
 
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it depends on the game. the i5 4690k will take away the lead in cpu bound games and games that cant use more than 2-4 cores, but the 8350 does quite well on many current games. There are some games though, where it will drop to near the 30fps mark. But since you have a 7770, i would suggest going mid-way with the gpu upgrade, and going to a 6350 or 8350 in tandem. Best to have a balanced system than all one way or the other. Something like an 8350 with a r9 280x would be a good combo with no bottleneck one way or the other. And a significant upgrade from both the cpu and gpu that you have.
 
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This is what i'll somewhat do. I just watched some comparisments and reviews and see that the 8350 will do fine with the 390. Yes, i'm still going for the 390 for the 8gb vram and just better in the long run.


 
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