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Approximate Purchase Date: This Month
Budget Range: roughly 400 altogether
System Usage from Most to Least Important: Gaming
Parts to Upgrade: CPU/GPU
Location: London.
Parts Preferences: Whatever is good, i know nothing.
Your Monitor Resolution: 1920x1080,
And Most Importantly, Why Are You Upgrading: Trouble running new games, and want to be ready for when games come out this year.

Include a list of any parts you have already selected with descriptively labeled links for parts. Please do not post only links.

What i already have ion my pc is;
CPU: AMD FX-4170
GPU: AMD Radeon r9 270x Series
Motherboard: Asus M5A78L-M/USB3

Any help would be great, sorry if i did this wrong.

 
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The one question most people are going to ask is what power supply do you currently have?

Off hand assuming the PSU is a solid unit, I'm sure what most people will recommend will be to upgrade to an Intel system, probably an I3-6100 since it offers a good upgrade path and the single core performance blows AMD out of the water
 
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Thank you for answering me, sound pretty good and i could afford that. Think I'll need a new case to fit them in?
The one i have now is Galaxy 3
The only one i could find of it : http://www.amazon.co.uk/GALAXY-BLACK-GAMING-DESKTOP-COMPUTER/dp/B00C97FLLK
 
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I'm going balls out with a completely opposite recommendation type.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD FX-6300 3.5GHz 6-Core Processor (£89.69 @ Dabs)
CPU Cooler: RAIJINTEK PALLAS 56.5 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler (£39.93 @ Overclockers.co.uk)
Video Card: GALAX GeForce GTX 970 4GB EX OC Black Edition Video Card (£259.55 @ Overclockers.co.uk)
Total: £389.17
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-02-02 19:00 GMT+0000

You still never mentioned your PSU model ??
 
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The case supports either microATX or ATX, no problem. You may need to upgrade your PSU as well unless you have a good quality 500 plus watt. If it's not in the budget, you could drop back to the i3 6100, which as stated above, is a strong performer and has hyper threading.
 
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Thanks for your reply, what would you say would be the main difference? I play Mainly Strategy games like Total War and Heard they need different things to work smoother.

also ii think my psu is a atx 12v model 750ub, that what it says on the side. Will that be good enough?
 
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That's a cit PSU - its pretty crappy in all honesty mate

With relation to you being a strategy gamer then absolutely go with an Intel i5 as suggested.
My recommendation was based solely around a quick upgrade aimed at high graphical quality on fast moving games.
Not so important with your type of gaming.

What I would suggest honestly
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-6500 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor (£166.53 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: ASRock H170 Pro4/D3 ATX LGA1151 Motherboard (£73.92 @ More Computers)
Power Supply: Super Flower Golden Green HX 550W 80+ Gold Certified ATX Power Supply (£63.48 @ More Computers)
Total: £303.93
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-02-02 21:00 GMT+0000

Stronger CPU, better board , new PSU - I wouldn't trust that cit you have with £250 worth of CPU/mb.
Assuming you have 8gb of decent speed ram already ?? which will carry over to this build.

You don't have the budget for a worthwhile upgrade IMO - the 380 suggested isn't a big enough jump in performance to warrant a purchase.

Bear in mind going to Intel will necessitate a full system format & reinstall of windows (if you have an oem copy of windows you may have to repurchase )
 
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Ah okay, how much more money do you think i'd need to spend to get and upgrade that would make it worth it?

I have windows and ram already so that should all be fine.

Thank you for all your help, sorry if i'm making it difficult.
 
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worded it wrong mate I meant you dont have a big enough budget to upgrade the gpu - the 270 is still afairly solid mid-range card - for a worthwhile upgrade on the gpu front you have to go up 2 tiers really & that means a gtx 970 or a r9 390 - theyre both 230 quid +.

the i5 will make a huge difference to performance in strategy type games - stuff lie total war & the civ series are massively single thread speed dependant.

 
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PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4460 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor (£143.99 @ Novatech)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z97P-D3 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£64.99 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card: Zotac GeForce GTX 970 4GB Video Card (£249.95 @ Amazon UK)
Other: Antec True Power CLassic 550w (£53.99)
Total: £512.92
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-02-02 21:53 GMT+0000
thats going to take you pretty much where you want to be
 
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If i go for your first suggestion the

CPU: Intel Core i5-6500 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor (£166.53 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: ASRock H170 Pro4/D3 ATX LGA1151 Motherboard (£73.92 @ More Computers)
Power Supply: Super Flower Golden Green HX 550W 80+ Gold Certified ATX Power Supply (£63.48 @ More Computers)
Total: £303.93

And then if i can get money later to upgrade my Card too later would you suggets that? or just do it all together?

Is the CPU difference actually worth it?
 
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the i5-6500 skylake puts you on the latest socket for around 20 quid more & is a stronger cpu than both the haswell 4460 & i5-6400 - Id personally say its worth it yes.

gpu's are not great prices at the minute & as I said the 270x is still a fairly decent mid range card so yes imo It makes sense to wait for prices to drop on gpu's or a really good deal to appear somewhere.
 
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I'll think that s what i'll do then, thank you for all your help you are too kind! Sorry if i haven't been the easiest person to explain this too!
 
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