Upgrade Gpu or Cpu first?

Steven Villarreal · Jan 28, 2017

I have an FX 6300 oc'd to 3.9 megahertz but a bad graphics card the XFX R7 260x Double Dissipation. I want to upgrade my Graphics card because its not being able to run newer games well but If I do upgrade my gpu im afraid that my cpu will bottleneck lets say a gtx 1060 or a gtx 1080. Should I upgrade my cpu and mobo first or gpu. And if cpu first which one should I get and mobo?

Dark Lord of Tech · Jan 28, 2017

Neither , don't invest any more cash into a FX setup , it has reached EOL , save for Ryzen or Intel.

tlalotoani · Jan 28, 2017

You could go with the GPU route, use it with you existing build, it will probably bottleneck you GPU, but not much (I suppose), and later upgrade you CPU.

Stubbies · Jan 28, 2017

A 1060 might not be too bad in the bottleneck department but you will easily bottleneck a 1080 with that CPU. As SR-71 stated Ryzen is coming up and that could shake things up a bit depending on how good it is.

Otherwise it also depends on if you are running Windows 7 or 10 and how far you push the GPU purchase.

If you bought a 1080 and wanted to stick with 7 then you would go with a i5-6600K or a i7-6700K with either a Z170 or Z270 based mobo for a higher end OC capable setup.

Windows 10 then it'd be a i5-7600K or a i7-7700K with a Z270 based mobo.

None of the current AMD offerings equal the Intel CPUs for gaming performance just like the 480 cannot compete by itself to a 1080. This would be one reason to wait and see how Ryzen performs and how that affects the pricing of components.

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