Alright, for the past few years I've had a huge want for a gaming rig. Was going to buy a new Xbox but for just a bit more I could play games with better resolution and more variety of games.
I want to play gta, forza and battlefield, gears of war and spin tire mainly.
My conundrum is what do I put my money too mainly? A CPU or GPU, I really just want a smooth running machine to run a game at 60fps on moderate settings. I'm use to consoles, and on a tight budget. I feel 600-750 is a good budget for me. That's hardware only too.
Anyways. On to my main question. I was leaning heavily towards a fx-8350 for the price but I do realize it's quite a older chip and the socket is obsolete, or so I've been told. Now do I spend a little more and get a i5-6500 and that allows me to upgrade to a i7-6700k which is what I absolutely want, but it's a bit over budget
For graphics card, I spotted a gigabyte rx 460 4gb for a great price but someone just showed me a xfx rx 480 8gb card just 100 more over the 460. Now I've been told it likely will bottleneck but will I see that if I have my settings lower for graphics?
Ram I'll probably have a 12-16 gb's, I have a 1tb hdd already for it too, case and motherboard will come after I get this cpu-gpu head ache over.
Thank you for your time, registered a bit ago and been on here daily searching and learning as much as I can. Anything I build will be a million times better than in mid 2000's toshiba satellite I have. It barely ran San Andreas multiplayer on low. Good times with it. Finally crashing on simple web browsing task.
I want to play gta, forza and battlefield, gears of war and spin tire mainly.
My conundrum is what do I put my money too mainly? A CPU or GPU, I really just want a smooth running machine to run a game at 60fps on moderate settings. I'm use to consoles, and on a tight budget. I feel 600-750 is a good budget for me. That's hardware only too.
Anyways. On to my main question. I was leaning heavily towards a fx-8350 for the price but I do realize it's quite a older chip and the socket is obsolete, or so I've been told. Now do I spend a little more and get a i5-6500 and that allows me to upgrade to a i7-6700k which is what I absolutely want, but it's a bit over budget
For graphics card, I spotted a gigabyte rx 460 4gb for a great price but someone just showed me a xfx rx 480 8gb card just 100 more over the 460. Now I've been told it likely will bottleneck but will I see that if I have my settings lower for graphics?
Ram I'll probably have a 12-16 gb's, I have a 1tb hdd already for it too, case and motherboard will come after I get this cpu-gpu head ache over.
Thank you for your time, registered a bit ago and been on here daily searching and learning as much as I can. Anything I build will be a million times better than in mid 2000's toshiba satellite I have. It barely ran San Andreas multiplayer on low. Good times with it. Finally crashing on simple web browsing task.
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