Need to upgrade/refine rig for 3 monitor gaming support

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With my current rig, I am barely able to race with two monitors without noticable lag. Below are my current specs, and below that is a list of components that I have compiled based on some research and suggestions from my gaming forum, but there is so much info out there, I can't really determine where my bottle necks are, if I NEED all these upgrades, if it will actually help, etc, any info is greatly appreciated.

I would like to run 3X monitors at 1080p, 60fps would be ideal but I do have a budget.

Current Rig:
Power Supply: Seasonic X Series 1050w
Motherboard: Gigabyte 990FXA-UD5
Processor: AMD FX 6350 3.9 GHz 6-Core, 14.0 MB Total Cache
GPU: 2X Sapphire Radeon HD 7850's Overclock Edition
Ram (8GB total 4 slots): G.SKILL Ripjaws X-series 4GB (2x 2GB per package, X2 packages) 240 pin DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800)
HD: Transcend 128Gb SSD

Looking At These To Potentially Replace/Upgrade (but I don't really know much about componants):
GPU: MSI Radeon RX 480 DirectX 8G 8GB 256 bit GDDR5 --- or --- MSI GeForce 1060 DirectX 12 6G 6GB 192 bit GDDR5
Processor: AMD FX-8350 Black Edition Vishera 8-Core 4GHz
RAM: G.SKILL Ripjaws 4 Series 16GB (4X 4GB) SDRAM DDR4 3000 (PC4 24000)
HD: Samsung 850 Evo 250GB SSD


Am I going wrong anywhere? Overboard? Will it work? Could you tell me what my weakest links are in my current/proposed rig? Thanks so much for the time and help.
 
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Well i would stick with the trancend ssd and buy a 1tb ot 2tb hdd unless u want really fast loading time in games otherwise it isnt needed, put the os and other softwares in trancend ssd, put the games and other files in hdd,
and the 1060 would be the better choice but 3 monitors hooked up to it, you wont be able to get 60 fps in all games, even the 1070 cant in a few games at ultra 1080p, unless you keep the graphics down a bit to achieve 60 fps. if you can get 1070 it would be better.
 
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it looks like the price jump is pretty big from the 480 to the 1070, and the 1060 doesn't support crossfire, which I think of as being able to upgrade the performance sometime in the nearish future (crossfiring 2 480's). What do you think about 2X 480's vs 1 1070 or 60?

How about the processor upgrade, is it necessary and or is the FX-8350 a good choice?
 
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Well i just realised you are doing a crossfire and a single 1060 wouldnt handle 3 monitors, you would need to sli which is not supported by the 1060, the sli is only available on 1070 and above.
RX 480 seems to do fine with 3 monitors for example GTA V on medium high settings, so then you would have to get the RX 480 and then later on crossfire for more performance or get one 1070 and stick with it.
The pic says the single 1070 is fatser than 2x 480
cf-480s-gta-1080.png
 
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What do you mean 1060 wouldn't handle 3 monitors but 480 seems to do fine with 3 monitors?

if I am upping the budget to the 1070, do you think that is that the best choice for the money for a 3 monitor gaming (racing) rig?
 
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