Advice needed! Gaming PC is ready for an upgrade to play Next Gen on high or ultra at 60 FPS

rileyjack

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Thank you everyone in advance for your advice. MY goal is to upgrade my current gaming PC to run Next Gen on high or ultra at 60 fps. Currently it runs on high graphics at 30-40 fps. My budget is around $500 but if necessary I would consider going beyond that. My current specs are below (copied from amazon).

MSI Computer Corp. Socket AM3+ AMD 970 DDR3 SATA3 and USB 3.0 A&GbE ATX Motherboard 970A-G43

AMD FD6300WMHKBOX FX-6300 6-Core Processor Black Edition

Sapphire Radeon R9 270X 2GB GDDR5 DVI-I/DVI-D/HDMI/DP Dual-X with Boost and OC Version PCI-Express BF4 Edition Graphics Card (11217-01-25G)

Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 1866 MHz (PC3 15000) Desktop Memory (CML8GX3M2A1866C9B)

WD Blue 1 TB Desktop Hard Drive: 3.5 Inch, 7200 RPM, SATA 6 Gb/s, 64 MB Cache - WD10EZEX

Corsair CX Series 600 Watt ATX/EPS Modular 80 PLUS Bronze ATX12V/EPS12V 552 Power Supply CX600M

Cooler Master Elite 430 - Mid Tower Computer Case with All-Black Interior and Windowed Side Panel

Which components can be upgraded to accomplish the High or Ultra at 60 fps. Any advice is welcome! Again thank you all, it is much appreciated.
 
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PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4460 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor ($174.89 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H97M-D3H Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($74.98 @ OutletPC)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 970 4GB Superclocked ACX 2.0 Video Card ($307.99 @ NCIX US)
Total: $557.86
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-10-20 13:31 EDT-0400

Sell you CPU, Mobo, GPU
With the Extra bucks you can get GTX 980 & i7 also.

RababNoor

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PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4460 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor ($174.89 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H97M-D3H Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($74.98 @ OutletPC)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 970 4GB Superclocked ACX 2.0 Video Card ($307.99 @ NCIX US)
Total: $557.86
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-10-20 13:31 EDT-0400

Sell you CPU, Mobo, GPU
With the Extra bucks you can get GTX 980 & i7 also.
 
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bignastyid

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PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4460 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor ($174.89 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-B85M-DS3H-A Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($51.98 @ Newegg)
Video Card: Gigabyte Radeon R9 390 8GB Video Card ($303.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Power Supply: XFX Core Edition 650W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply ($50.98 @ Newegg)
Total: $581.84
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-10-20 13:58 EDT-0400
 

Karadjgne

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Bignasty's build is superior, because the ram on the 390 will probably be more suited to next gen games vrs the 4Gb of the 970. Also, I'm really surprised that CX psu is still active, most die 6months to 1.5 yrs.

My only addition would be a 120/128 or 250/256Gb SSD. It's a help one way or another to any game, how much so depends on the game.
 

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