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brutzza

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Hi guys, I'm new in this forum.
I'm from Argentina and I'm travelling to the USA, that's why I'm asking for the following advice. Because maybe I buy there.

I want to renew my desktop computer and as I haven't read anything in the past two years, I'm a little outdated in the computer world.

I have now ASUS M4A88T-M/USB 3.0 with Phenom X4 955, 12 GB DDR3 (1333 MHz) and Sapphire 5750.

What do you guys recommend me? My brother wants it to play good games in good quality.
Should I go with ASUS or Intel? (I'm a little more into ASUS because this motherboard had never failed me from 2011).
Improve to DDR4 or it's not worth it? Do Kingston Fury have good performance?
Maybe GTX 960/970?

And I will buy Samsung EVO 850 120/250 GB to run Windows 7.

Thank you!

Bruno.
 
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DDR4 doesn't work with the 1150 socket mobo's. The ddr4 technology is too new.
Any dual/quad channel kit will do, the speed doesn't matter.
If you can get a 970, get it. It's much better than a 960 and will get you through most games on ultra.
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The motherboard doesn't affect the performance. For the best upgrade in games, a new GPU is the way to go. A gtx 960/R9 270/R9 280 are good with that cpu. The more powerful GPU's might get bottlenecked by the slightly on the weak-side, CPU.
RAM you don't have to worry about. DDR4 won't work with that cpu and motherboard. And new ddr3 ram won't increase the performance at all, since you have well enough with the 12gb.
 
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brutzza

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Hi Eliasand.
So you recommend me to stay with that motherboard and upgrade the GPU to one of those instead of buying a whole new mother/CPU/GPU/RAM ?
Yes, I know DDR4 won't work there, I was asking for the new motherboard.

In case I upgrade the GPU, my CPU is ok? Or should I upgrade it too?

Thanks!!
 
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The CPU is quite old and for an upgrade you would need to buy a new motherboard as well. The real bottleneck in the system right now though is the 5750.
If you want a proper upgrade though, and have the money for it, a Intel-based system would be the way to go. An i5-4690k and a motherboard + a good GPU.
 
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brutzza

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Yes, I thought it was quite old... But the chipset is old too so there isn't quite a really nice amd CPU to really feel the difference.
So my choice would be new mother, check prices of i5-4690k and gtx 960 2gb/4gb.
For the ram what would you recommend? ddr3 or ddr4? There isn't quite a big difference in prices though.
 
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DDR4 doesn't work with the 1150 socket mobo's. The ddr4 technology is too new.
Any dual/quad channel kit will do, the speed doesn't matter.
If you can get a 970, get it. It's much better than a 960 and will get you through most games on ultra.
 
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brutzza

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So you say there isn't such a difference between DDR3 and DDR4. So maybe I will go for a motherboard with DDR3, should be cheaper.
For the GPU, I've read that the leap to the 970 is really good, so I think I will go for that one.
My brother bought 2 years ago a game called Watch Dogs, something like that, idk. With the Sapphire 5750 he couldn't even run it if I'm not mistaken.

Thanks, dude! I will start checking prices and check for any intel motherboard.
 
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