Should i upgrade my cpu or gpu? (Gtx 650 ti boost / AMD Fx 4350)

Doc Reformed

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A few other specs that might be useful, 16 gigs of ram, S75QB 750W PSU, MSI 970 gaming MB

I have a budget of $400 for the upgrade, I was thinking of upgrading to a gtx 1070 now I know it will bottleneck the cpu, But I'm not quite sure what bottlenecking means? Say a game is gpu intensive will I see a significant performance increase and if its cpu I wont see a difference or what is the case?

I mainly play fps games, Overwatch, Payday 2, CS:GO, Killing floor 2.
But I do also play some Open world "MMO" games, GTAV, Rust, H1Z1.

Some of the max cpu percentages while games are running and in areas that have a lot going on, First % will be game alone and second will be total cpu with max amount of programs that i would normally have running while playing (Few browser tabs, Battlenet, Steam Etc.) As it shows in task manager.

Overwatch: 50%, 75%
Payday 2: 45%, 65%
CS:GO: 60-80%, 80-99% 100+ fps
Killing Floor 2: 35%, 45% 40+ players on server

GTAV: 55%, 75% near max settings 60 fps
Rust: 45%, 60% 120 player server 60 fps can sometimes dip below
H1Z1: 45%, 55%

Like I said I'm more concerned about the fps games but it would be nice to get a little boost in the other games.

Any suggestions/advice On which route I should go first?
 

PaulBlack

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I would do cpu first, the cpu is usually the thing governing the fps in a game and the GPs does quality etc.. in shooting games fps is king.
can you just put an 8350 in the motherboard you have? I think you can. They are $100 so you could still upgrade the graphics too and Ebay the 650ti and 4350 buy an rx480 and ram with the change