What should I spend £200 on to upgrade?

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Thomas_153

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Hey! I Currently have £200 to upgrade and I would like some help on deciding what to get. I currently have an AMD fx 6300 CPU, AMD R9 270 GPU, 8GB RAM and a 550W XFX PSU. I think an rx 480 would give me the biggest performance jump but I'm wondering if I have a good enough power supply or there are just a better upgrade option, thanks :)
 
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I have a 1060 paired with a 4th gen i3 and in my very unscientific experiment the CPU seems to result in a 10-15% loss in fps over an i7 6th gen CPU (this was in Overwatch, the drop in Doom was a bit less). However since the jump over my previous GPU is so great and in both cases we're talking numbers in the 100's I don't massively care.

Your CPU is pretty weak as has already been stated and it's due an upgrade, however if you can only afford one part and are asking which you should get first I would buy the GPU. Regardless of the limiting factor of your CPU the GPU will give you the biggest boost and will give you a second bump when you can afford to upgrade the CPU. The other bonus of this (and this might be too optimistic) is that...
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rhelmar1

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Ideally you would want to upgrade your CPU AND GPU, The fx 6300, is quite old and will bottleneck cards like the rx 480. But you can't upgrade both with just £200.
You have 2 choices. Either you upgrade to an i5 6500 with a cheap H110 motherboard. That will cost you about £220-230.
Or you get an rx 480 and live with the bottleneck until you can upgrade your CPU. The cheapest 480 that's in stock right now is the powercolor 8gb 480 for £229.
If you upgrade your GPU, you would see a big jump in performance, as opposed to upgrading your CPU, in which case the gains would be minimal if any at all. However you wouldn't have to worry about upgrading your CPU for the next couple of years. With the GPU it wouldn't take long for the AMD or Nvidia to bring out a gpu that will give you the same performance for less than 2/3 of the price.
I personally would go for an rx 480 to get an imidiate impact on my performance. But If you are someone that doesn't like upgrading every 2 years, you might wanna consider an i5, since CPUs last longer than GPUs.

PS: Your PSU is fine
 
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I have a 1060 paired with a 4th gen i3 and in my very unscientific experiment the CPU seems to result in a 10-15% loss in fps over an i7 6th gen CPU (this was in Overwatch, the drop in Doom was a bit less). However since the jump over my previous GPU is so great and in both cases we're talking numbers in the 100's I don't massively care.

Your CPU is pretty weak as has already been stated and it's due an upgrade, however if you can only afford one part and are asking which you should get first I would buy the GPU. Regardless of the limiting factor of your CPU the GPU will give you the biggest boost and will give you a second bump when you can afford to upgrade the CPU. The other bonus of this (and this might be too optimistic) is that by the time you get the money for a CPU then AMD might have got its act together with Zen. It would be nice if this not only made them a worthwhile choice but forced Intel to compete on price in the mid range.
 
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upgrading your CPU to a i5-6500 will give you around 42% improved singe-core performance.
but this will result in upgrading your motherboard/CPU/Ram as well.
this difference can be reduced by overclocking that FX6300 CPU and maybe getting a decent CPU cooler.

upgrading to a RX480 will give you around 35% performance increase which means you will be coming from 35-40 FPS to 60+. bottlenecking that GPU will still give you better results than upgrading your whole system and remain with the R9 270.
 
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