What should I upgrade to achieve 60 FPS High Settings on Games?

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Patrick_121

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PC Spec:
AMD A8 7650k Turbo to 3.8
Cooler Master TX3 EVO
R9 270 Gigabyte
550w PSU
Gigabyte F2A88XM-D3H
1TB HDD
120GB SSD

Goals: Reach 60 FPS AVG with Good Settings in the following games:
GTA V (Normal)
CSGO (max settings)
Overwatch (Ultra)
StarWars BattleFront (Medium)

My budget for an upgrade would be $400.

Should I wait for Ryzen to upgrade my CPU or just purchase an I3 7100?

I was also leaning towards an R9 390 Upgrade if possible but most people say that the CPU would bottleneck the hell out of the R9.

I am able to upgrade my pc $400 AUD every 2 months, so what should I upgrade first?




 
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The Paladin
400 every two months .. nice I wish I had that kind of budget.... I am more like 1500$ every 5 years

waiting for zen is all if you are a hardened AMD lover. and I wont dispute that, nor truly discuss it, but going to upgrading to an A-10 CPU for your system at this point would be a waste of 250$ when it could be used elsewhere.
could you please identify make/model of your PSU and HDD (just for accuracy in my listing is all)

As for the R9 390 it has less power than a GTX 970 so I would skip over that and the RX 480 as well.

so here is what I would change over in stages on your computer if it was mine.

if you are like me you might of kept the brackets for your cooler to install on other systems maybe not. but for start the basics...
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400 every two months .. nice I wish I had that kind of budget.... I am more like 1500$ every 5 years

waiting for zen is all if you are a hardened AMD lover. and I wont dispute that, nor truly discuss it, but going to upgrading to an A-10 CPU for your system at this point would be a waste of 250$ when it could be used elsewhere.
could you please identify make/model of your PSU and HDD (just for accuracy in my listing is all)

As for the R9 390 it has less power than a GTX 970 so I would skip over that and the RX 480 as well.

so here is what I would change over in stages on your computer if it was mine.

if you are like me you might of kept the brackets for your cooler to install on other systems maybe not. but for start the basics CPU/MOBO/RAM to get you switched over to INTEL your parts are marked as 0$ on this list

PCPartPicker part list /
CPU: Intel Core i5-6400 2.7GHz Quad-Core Processor ($248.00 @ Shopping Express)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper TX3 54.8 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler (Purchased For $0.00)
Motherboard: MSI B150M BAZOOKA Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($95.00 @ PCCaseGear)
Memory: Crucial 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory ($68.00 @ Shopping Express)
Storage: ADATA Premier SP550 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (Purchased For $0.00)
Storage: Seagate BarraCuda 500GB 2.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive (Purchased For $0.00)
Video Card: Gigabyte Radeon R9 270 2GB WINDFORCE Video Card (Purchased For $0.00)
Case: Thermaltake Core V21 MicroATX Mini Tower Case (Purchased For $0.00)
Power Supply: XFX TS 550W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (Purchased For $0.00)
Total: $411.00

next I would do a video card upgrade and ram boost to 16gb

PCPartPicker part list
CPU: Intel Core i5-6400 2.7GHz Quad-Core Processor (Purchased For $0.00)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper TX3 54.8 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler (Purchased For $0.00)
Motherboard: MSI B150M BAZOOKA Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard (Purchased For $0.00)
Memory: Crucial 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory (Purchased For $0.00)
Memory: Crucial 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory ($68.00 @ Shopping Express)
Storage: ADATA Premier SP550 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (Purchased For $0.00)
Storage: Seagate BarraCuda 500GB 2.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive (Purchased For $0.00)
Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6GB WINDFORCE OC 6G Video Card ($369.00 @ Shopping Express)
Power Supply: XFX TS 550W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (Purchased For $0.00)
Total: $437.00

then I would benchmark it and enjoy my games.
 
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guanyu210379

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How about replacing only the processor, motherboard and GPU.
Keep the rest of your rig incl your DDR3 RAM,
And go for Hasswell platform , i5 4590, a cheap H97 and GTX1060/RX480?
You can also look for secondhanded items, if you want and can get good prices.

Going for the i3/i5 7xxx or waiting for Ryzen is the better choice tho'.
 
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