Should I Upgrade the CPU or GPU??

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FilGoncalves

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Hi!!

For at least one year my PC has been dropping fps and freezing for 1-2 seconds every 10 to 20 seconds when I play any game...even those that don't require much like cs go, dirty bomb, Rocket League...games that in the past were running smoothly and I was enjoying soo much and it's really annoying me...That's why i'm playing and recording now with my XBOX but I want to return to PC Gaming

This is my pc Specs:
CPU: FX-8350
CPU Cooler: NOX Hummer H-200
GPU: MSI GTX760 TwinFrozr OC 2GB
Motherboard: Asrock 970 Pro 3 2.0
RAM: G.Skill Ares F3-1600C9D-4GAB (2x4GB)
SSD: Kingston 240GBs (OS)
HDD: 2 x 1TB Western Blue (gaming and recorded gameplay)

In the past i got some fps drop but I resolve it, but now...it seems impossible that every thing I try, it doesn't work. I was able to play GTA V with no problems in high settings and Crysis 3 on Ultra in the past...
What I'm thinking doing it's upgrading maybe my Processor to an Intel but i'm not sure if that's going to work because i've seen soo much people complaining about this fps drop and lag with this GPU that I don't know what it's better to do...new processor and mobo....new GPU...
I'm open to suggestions on what you guys think I should buy to make my pc great again :D
I'm able to pay about 400-500€ to get something good on my pc and keep upgrading to the future.

For what I need this PC?
Mostly for recording (1920x1080 preference without lagging), editing (I've seen some Intel CPU having fast rendering on Sony Vegas than AMD ones and having better "relations" with the Nvidia GPU's) and gaming (don't mind the Ultra settings altought it's beatifull...i'm happy with the medium settings and having 60+fps while recording ^^)

What I think it's maybe wrong?
Maybe the match with the amd CPU and Nvidia Gpu...
The GPU not being that good...
Upgrading to more RAM...

I have this pc for like 4 years and I think it's time for some upgrades or maybe fixing some that I'm not seeing it's wrong :)

Waiting for your help :D
 
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Karadjgne
Recording/streaming needs cores. The 8350 is fine for that even if a little slow.
Sony Vegas hasn't really had any decent support of nvidia cards since Sony got in a tiffing match with nvidia about the time of the 500 series gpus. SV works Alot better with Amd gpus. If rendering by cpu, then that's different, but any cpu with decent IPC and a good amount of cores will be fine.

For most intensive game engines 2Gb vram is a boat anchor that's going to drag you down at high or better details. It's just in the nature of how much stuff is involved in the engine, swamps that 2Gb quick.

Any move up will require basically a new pc. The only things I'd keep are the storage, possibly the case if you really like it.

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First of all, how is gta working with just 2 gb of vram? That’s impressive. If you are a streamer, I’d recommend the 8th gen i5 series with 6 cores, perfect for multitasking. If you can fit it in, a gtx 1060 6gb version may do you well too. Just wait for someone else to comment to verify what I have to say...
 
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Recording/streaming needs cores. The 8350 is fine for that even if a little slow.
Sony Vegas hasn't really had any decent support of nvidia cards since Sony got in a tiffing match with nvidia about the time of the 500 series gpus. SV works Alot better with Amd gpus. If rendering by cpu, then that's different, but any cpu with decent IPC and a good amount of cores will be fine.

For most intensive game engines 2Gb vram is a boat anchor that's going to drag you down at high or better details. It's just in the nature of how much stuff is involved in the engine, swamps that 2Gb quick.

Any move up will require basically a new pc. The only things I'd keep are the storage, possibly the case if you really like it.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 5 1600 3.2GHz 6-Core Processor (€191.99 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Motherboard: ASRock - AB350M Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard (€70.46 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Memory: G.Skill - Trident Z 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory (€152.74 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Video Card: Sapphire - Radeon RX 580 8GB PULSE Video Card (€296.93 @ Mindfactory)
Power Supply: Corsair - RMx 550W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply (€89.34 @ Mindfactory)
Total: €801.46
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-12-23 19:32 CET+0100

That's pretty much it in a nutshell, any change in cpu requires a new mobo/ram as well, and with that 760 you'll not really see any big difference until the new platform is paired with a gpu that'll allow it to open up. The Rx580 8Gb will allow SV to really work wonders under gpu rendering, the R5 1600 is good for cpu rendering. Both excel at gaming 1080p.
 
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FilGoncalves

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Yeah....I was actually thinking buying that GPU...let's see what the others say :)

 
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FilGoncalves

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I don't know the brand but is a 600W Power Supply
 
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FilGoncalves

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You know what..Altough I didn't wanted to change all my PC this is an "eye opening" and I think I will buy this setup ...i didn't know about the RX 580 but I've seen recently some videos on the RX 580 Nitro+ (One of the only ones coming to my local store, the others are the aurus and the dual version) but I think the Nitro+ is a good investment.
Great explanation and thanks for helping me :D
 
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