Phenom II X4 965 BE +gtx 960 or i5 4460 +r7 260x

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hi everybody ,im on tight budget so i like to know what should i upgrade first,i have been thinking all the times to get an i5 but people say graphic card is the priority for gaming performance

My current setup
Phenom II X4 965
r7 260x 2gb
8gb ram DDR 3
 
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the phenomII is old but scrappy. A damned fine CPU in its day and not a bad one today.
if the games require a new video card by all means get one. A faster access device would make a huge usability difference. I second the SSD vote.
it doesn't have to be huge, (60-120GB)SSD cacheing is very effective and fancycache has a six month trial.
http://www.hardcoreware.net/ssd-cache-performance/

for the record I'm rocking a 955 black and an hd6970. I have been using an ssd cache for 5 years and prefer it to a dedicated SSD
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the phenomII is old but scrappy. A damned fine CPU in its day and not a bad one today.
if the games require a new video card by all means get one. A faster access device would make a huge usability difference. I second the SSD vote.
it doesn't have to be huge, (60-120GB)SSD cacheing is very effective and fancycache has a six month trial.
http://www.hardcoreware.net/ssd-cache-performance/

for the record I'm rocking a 955 black and an hd6970. I have been using an ssd cache for 5 years and prefer it to a dedicated SSD
 
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MSI Radeon R9 380 Gaming 4GB: $210 before $20 rebate

It's the *Tonga* big brother of the HD7950, and is roughly 2X your current card.

I point that out because I'm rocking an HD7950 with no complaints on a PhII 965BE running 3.8GHz (and 1.3v !!)

An SSD is a great upgrade to an older rig. What power supply do you have?

It's always good advice to upgrade an older PSU when you spend good money on a new graphics card.





 
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You have a problem with these 2 choices and it depends a lot on the games you intend to play.. what games do you plan to be playing? If you get the new gpu then you aren't going to come close to getting max performance from it which could still be fine. The current games will only run better and at least you could run newer games with effects and other cpu intensive settings turned off. If you upgrade the processor then you will have a great processor which could handle most GPUs and push them to the max, but your not going to be able to play any decent looking games.


Not sure if this part helps or not, but it's a great deal I ran across when upgrading my pc the other day.

If you check out the website www.cowboom.com I'm assuming if you get the I-5 then you also have to change the motherboard to go with it. that alone is going to cost you more than the system i'm posting below.

http://www.cowboom.com/product/1631741/ sells for 259$ right now, uses an i-5 4440 plus it's a full system which allows you to sell your current one to at least make a few bucks. You could swap over the parts you plan to keep and then sell your system with the 260x inside it and maybe end up with enough to pull off both upgrades earlier than you planned. I've bought 4 of these type of systems to build gaming pc for me and a few friends. They are in top shape never had an issue. When someone returns a computer to best buy they make their way to this website.

I just got the Lenovo K450 for 280$ from here the other day just because I needed an i-5 4460, 1150 motherboard and pcie 3.0. Swapped my other parts in it, put a few back in the old pc and sold my old i-3 / 6gb / 1tb / no gpu for 200$ today. Spent 80$ total in the end
 
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if your going to upgrade the gpu for a little more performance, then get a AMD hd 7850 for around $80 on ebay. it outperforms the $130 gtx 750ti. Now if your going up upgrade the cpu, then look for a phenom II x6 core. with this you dont have to change the motherboard with the cpu upgrade. Leave the ram alone for now. for gaming and SSD is a bad choice, no games really rely on the ssd for performance, SSD's give you a quicker loading time, but that about it. maybe later down the road, you can rebuild the entire system from ground up, but for now, their is nothing really wrong with your setup.
 
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I agree with the post above, bit disagree about the ssd. Getting a ssd was one of the best purchases I've ever made. It will greatly speed up overall performance of the pc. It makes massive difference in load times. Take this game mordheim turn based strategy. The load times are absurdly insane, its almost unplayable cause of how long it takes.. On a ssd it still takes a while, but its significantly faster and makes the game very much playable. If you play games like skyrim you notice big difference. Literally every single door you open creates a load screen
 
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