Help me upgrade on a budget, please

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Lily__M

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Hi guys.. I really want to upgrade my PC a bit to get better performance because I find that I've been feeling some here and there in games that I don't think I should be lagging on.

I have $500 to work with right now to get some upgrades, I really need help as to which you think would benefit the most right now, in terms of performance. Here are my specs.

Gigabyte GA-78LMT-USB3 AM3+ AMD DDR3 1333 760G HDMI USB 3.0 Micro ATX Motherboard
AMD Quad-Core A10-7700K APU Radeon R7 processor
16 GB Ram
GeForce GTX 950 4GB GPU

As for my fans and stuff, they're fine. Just last month I spent about $65 on a new CPU cooler and about $90 on a 700W power supply. Any suggestions would be great. Thanks.

 
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jwcrellin
A 500GB - 1TB ssd will make the whole system feel faster. How's your case holding up, is the airflow front to rear okay? 16GB Ram is fine.
My GTX 1070 was a massive upgrade over my old R7 370 both in performance and efficience(heat).
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Lily__M

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Are you for real? Thank you but please don't tell me what to do with my money and don't act like you know what my income is. At this moment, I have a stable income, but also at this very moment, I want to dish out only $500 on upgrades. Please answer the question or don't, cause this is a rather rude response.
 
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A 500GB - 1TB ssd will make the whole system feel faster. How's your case holding up, is the airflow front to rear okay? 16GB Ram is fine.
My GTX 1070 was a massive upgrade over my old R7 370 both in performance and efficience(heat).
 
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bally30

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well you have a good GPU for 1080p gaming then all you need is a better CPU & motherboard
because your CPU is bottlenecking your GPU so $500 is more than enough to get better CPU & Motherboard
I have had a i5 4690K which was brilliant & then i changed it for a i7 6700K i found that new games tend to work better on i7 then i5 for example COD Ghost & call of duty infinite warfare would stutter in cutscenes & they dont on the i7 dont know about the latter version i5 after 4690K but thats just my experience (Food for thought)
 
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