Upgrading gpu or cpu? for light gaming

Tomatoes · May 22, 2016

Hello boys.My pc has:

Cougar spike case
8gb ram
520 watt seasonic s2(80+ gold)
gt 730
intel pentium g3258 5ghz(oc)
asrock h81-gl
windows 10 64bit

When i say light gaming i mean ,LoL,csgo,WoW,GW2,WSand i dont know what to upgrade first.I mainly play csgo so i want to focus in this.Cpu or gpu? my budget is 250-300 euros i have already 2 options:

1)Buy an i5 4690K watercooled(at least 4.5 ghz with oc) with one z97 motherboard
and stay with gt 730

2)Buy an r9 390(because he wins in almost every game the 970(dont know about cs) and stay with pentium.WHats your opinions? thanks in advance!

joshmoyer · May 22, 2016

Both could use an upgrade. But id do the gpu first.

sizzling · May 22, 2016

I'd say gpu first. In less cpu heavy games that don't need more than 2 threads your cpu will do very well with a good gpu, only games needing more than 2 threads will your cpu limit you. Upgrading your cpu will do very little as the 730 is very weak in all games.

However wait a couple of weeks, the 1070 is being released and is claimed 980Ti performance at just slightly more than current 970 prices

Tomatoes · May 22, 2016

sizzling :

If i take 980ti with this cpu i wont botteneck in csgo?I just want to have 200+ fps constant is this possible ?My friend has 960 but i7 4790K and he has constant 300+ fps what about 980ti |+ pentium?

sizzling · May 22, 2016

I don't play csgo but I'd expect little or no bottlenecking as it's not a multi threaded game. A bottleneck does not hurt anything and if you plan to upgrade CPU later it really does not matter

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