Looking to upgrade, need advice.

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acleverhobo

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My current setup is:

Intel Core i5-4460 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor
Gigabyte GA-H81-D3 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard
Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory
Crucial BX100 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive
Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive
Sapphire Radeon R9 380 4GB Nitro Video Card
NZXT Source 210 Elite (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case
EVGA 500W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply
Nixeus NX-VUE24A with FreeSync

I built it last year on a bit of a budget and now I have a bit of cash I can spare on upgrading. I figured I would start with the graphics card, but if you think I should start elsewhere let me know. As for the graphics card I would like to stay with AMD since I have a FreeSync monitor. My budget is $500 but I can go higher if needed.

Any suggestions?
 
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hang-the-9
Right now, I would not touch anything. Next generation or maybe two gens from now would be worth it. Only thing I'd change is get a larger hard drive to install programs on, I always find it silly to have a high end CPU, high end video card, SSD, then try to save $20 and get a small SSD and install programs on a much slower platter drive. It's like paying $2,000 for a suit and then buying $20 Wal Mart shoes.
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m4ntl3

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Very tough question, you could upgrade your motherboard and ram for now and when the new R 400 series comes out or GTX 1000 series comes out you could pick up a new powers supply and crossfire your R9 380 for a pretty good price or skip the new power supply and pick up a 400 series because they're supposed to be more power efficient. For gaming your CPU is fine and to be honest 8GB of RAM is pretty good, the only thing that seems out of place in your build is your motherboard because it only has two dimm (RAM) slots and is overall not the best quality. Now might not be the time to upgrade your PC as the 500 you'll put into now won't make a big difference because your PC is fairly balanced meaning you would kind of need to upgrade most parts and not giving you a big performance jump, wait a few months and see what you can do with the money you have then. Either way it's your decision so think it over for a little bit.
 
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hang-the-9

hang-the-9

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Right now, I would not touch anything. Next generation or maybe two gens from now would be worth it. Only thing I'd change is get a larger hard drive to install programs on, I always find it silly to have a high end CPU, high end video card, SSD, then try to save $20 and get a small SSD and install programs on a much slower platter drive. It's like paying $2,000 for a suit and then buying $20 Wal Mart shoes.
 
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