Should I upgrade my FM2/FM2+ motherboard? Should I wait?

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Hello, sorry for my lack of knowledge concerning this matter. I currently have a MSI FM2-A75MA-E35 FM2 AMD A75 (Hudson D3) 6 x SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 HDMI Micro ATX AMD Motherboard. I want to upgrade to an ASUS ROG CROSSBLADE RANGER FM2+ AMD A88X (Bolton D4) 8 x SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 HDMI ATX AMD Gaming Motherboard. My processor is an AMD A10-6800K Richland 4.1GHz (4.4GHz Turbo) Socket FM2 100W Quad-Core Desktop Processor - Black Edition. Is this a worthwhile upgrade or should I wait?
 
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^ you're missing the point mate - no current GPU (& that includes the 390x & gtx 980ti) saturates PCI express 2 bandwidth as it is.
Swapping one fm2 motherboard for another is a pointless exercise.
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I would personally wait as going from AMD to AMD in your case isn't much of an upgrade for the money it will cost. If you were going Intel, I would likely tell you go for it as it would be a marginally big difference.

I'm an avid AMD supporter as you seem to be but I went Intel when I saw my 8350 was about half as fast as the Intel CPU I have in my sig. Everything else in my house is still AMD and will be for a while to come.

Are you truly having issues and need an upgrade or are you just getting the itch?
 
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I'm not having many issues, but I want this upgrade for the PCIE 3.0 slots that the new board has.
 
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There's no real purpose to this. Any future GPU that would actually need that much bandwidth would be horribly bottlenecked by any CPU running on that motherboard anyway, including your CPU.
 
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So I should get a better gpu now, let it be bottlenecked, then upgrade my CPU and Motherboard in one go?
 
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Sorry, I should have been more clear, I would get a non-FM2/FM2+ motherboard and cpu.
 
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