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I currently am running a oc'ed fx6300 @ 4.2, 8gb ddr3 1600, on a gigabyte 990fx udp3 board. I have found a couple options for now until my Intel upgrade either cyber Monday this year or next. Thing is should I pull off an and upgrade now for a couple hundo or save it for my major upgrade?

Fx8320 @ 110 USD
Fx8350 @ 120
Fx8370 @ 130
Fx9590 @ 135

I am also running an rx480 8gb on 1080p with an antec 620w gamer ps. If this and upgrade is taken I plan on grabbing 16gb of higher speed ram (lucrative?) And a 256gb ssd (very near future).

Strictly gaming pc btw maybe a lil bit of audio processing (beat making) and thats about it.

In the future I will be changing over into the high end i5 or low end i7 area either starting November this year or next year with an nvidia series card.

I've asked friends but they are all very biased toward Intel with little experience on amd. Let me know what u guys think or if u need any more info. I appreciate the help in advance thanx.
 
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Well 980 SLI is good for 1440p. I have overclocked 970s in SLI to reference 980 performance for my 1440p and it covers the most taxing games like Dues X, BF1, and Witcher 3 between 65-75FPS and then I just V-sync cap for 60Hz/60FPS. So it's not too much of a waste of GPU power and they run cooler at a lower % of use. This is with max quality settings and AA, usually in-game 2x MSAA with Nvidia FXAA in the control panel layered over it for an effective 4xAA that is less taxing). Now with other games that are less GPU intensive like DiRT Rally and Grid Autosport, it's overkill as they get over 100fps without v-sync cap.

You won't be able to build a new PC for that performance and price (980 SLI beats a single 1080). The only thing I'm...
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I built my brothers pc around the 6300 and an R9 290. Gave him my old 8320 which he has oced to 4.5 and he has seen an fps increase in witcher 3, overwatch, even daily things like having chrome tabs open (in his case like 50, no joke).
 
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The rule of thumb is that if you wait to upgrade, you'll be waiting forever as the next best thing will always be around the corner. As the OP said, you won't notice any big improvements with another FX chip. Also some games actually run slower with more than four cores like the eight-core 9590.

IMO the wait for next year and Nvidia's Volta may well be worth it for a GPU upgrade (GTX 2xxx series). But if you are not happy with your current PC's performance, then upgrade it when your budget/deals allow.
 
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Umm... as far as I can tell and have seen from benchmarks.. more cores deffinately does not mean lower performance....

Back to topic. Either one, get a good aftermarket cooler and you can oc the crud out of either of them. Instead of Intel for the planned upgrade check out Ryzen and possibly Vega / Volta if they are out.
 
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Well Hell......

Thank you to all for such qwiq responses. I guess Ill try and save up for a major architecture upgrade then. I may go with Ryzen but I feel that I think its time to try Intel+nvidia again.
 
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^ not actually considering amd now when they've made the biggest stride with ryzen & polaris this year since 2008 would be a grave disservice mate.

In the last 2 months I've seen even people I previously considered massively Intel biased actually turning round & recommending amd again as an option which is something I never thought would happen.

Intel still have the extreme budget & the high end chips but anything in between is now firmly amd's stomping ground
 
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Again, it depends on the game. A few games are poorly threaded and overload a few cores without using idle cores. Here's an old comparison I had bookmarked from a couple of years ago comparing an i7 4770K and an i7 5960K. Scroll down for the benchmark comparisons. Note that several single threaded applications run better on the 4770. Also note that Shadow Of Mortar takes a big hit in minimum FPS with the 5960K (35FPS vs. 42FPS):

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/1317?vs=836&_ga=2.21170045.77453527.1497736449-578646548.1492192324




Without question a 6-core Ryzen 1600X is a better all around chip than a 4-core i7 if you do more than just game. Way better value.
 
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That's just the thing though bruh. I'm not doing too too much more with it then gaming, some light beat making unto which I will more than likely use this rig I'm on now more for, and some light streaming. No extremely taxing workloads. I imagine Ryzen is still pretty expensive (just a guess no REAL research).

I'm probably being very biased myself against AMD. I have rocked them for years and never really had a late Intel machine. It just seems like every time I get on a friends Intel rig it just seems to flow smoother. I could be crazy though lol. I'm going to have around about a 1k budget and my friend has offered me his as a barebones I7-7700k paired with 32gb of ram and 2 gtx 980s, power supply and case all built by Ibuypower for a cool $1000. What do you guys think of that? Start there? I have a hyper tx 3 to cool it if I decide to oc.

This will also put me in a resolution category that Ive been wanting to move to eventually anyway and its on the tip of my fingers for a decent price in my eyes. Ill just need a new monitor to go with it.
 
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Well 980 SLI is good for 1440p. I have overclocked 970s in SLI to reference 980 performance for my 1440p and it covers the most taxing games like Dues X, BF1, and Witcher 3 between 65-75FPS and then I just V-sync cap for 60Hz/60FPS. So it's not too much of a waste of GPU power and they run cooler at a lower % of use. This is with max quality settings and AA, usually in-game 2x MSAA with Nvidia FXAA in the control panel layered over it for an effective 4xAA that is less taxing). Now with other games that are less GPU intensive like DiRT Rally and Grid Autosport, it's overkill as they get over 100fps without v-sync cap.

You won't be able to build a new PC for that performance and price (980 SLI beats a single 1080). The only thing I'm concerned about as a long time SLI user is the decreasing support for it, both from Nvidia as well as game developers. I'm not familiar with that brand of custom PC, so I have no idea of the quality of the components internally, especially the PSU and motherboard. With that said, it's a good deal if you are itching right now. You should be able to still get a decent price for that RX 480 as well to help offset some of the cost.

 
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10tacle selling is would be my pleasure as my warranty is transferable via micro center. As far as The custom pc Ibuypower.com is a standalone company that I think best buy also backs. As i have seen a few of their pc's in the store.

I see that my friend is doing me a solid by selling me his for that price. So ill go with that one and build around it. I will update this thread in some months and let you know how it worked out. Thanks everyone.
 
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