Im planning to upgrade my system. Help me

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Hi im planing to upgrade my system right now. Here My recently spec:
i3 4130 ( With LGA 1150 Mobo)
4gb Ram ( 1 channel)
GTX 750 ti 4 GB (if im not mistaken)
HDD 1 Tera
Im using 1440 x 900 screen at 60

Playing mostly rainbow six siege, and overwatch

I just want upgrade either GTX 1060 6gb or i5 8400. But if i choose GTX 1060 it said that will bottleneck 20% with my i3 and if i choose i5 8400 it will bottleneck arround 70% with my gtx 750 ti. So what should i choose for the best? I just have arround $500 budget so i dont think i can buy CPU and GPU at the same time right now.



 
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$500 bucks can get you this:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel - Pentium Gold G5600 3.9GHz Dual-Core Processor ($93.00 @ B&H)
Motherboard: MSI - B360M PRO-VDH Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($70.98 @ Newegg)
Memory: Team - Vulcan 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2400 Memory ($86.89 @ OutletPC)
Video Card: EVGA - GeForce GTX 1060 3GB 3GB GAMING Video Card ($248.90 @ OutletPC)
Total: $499.77
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-05-02 23:50 EDT-0400

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While G5600 isn't as good as i5-8400 is, it's cheaper than Core i5 and it's also better performing than your...

Aeacus

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$500 bucks can get you this:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel - Pentium Gold G5600 3.9GHz Dual-Core Processor ($93.00 @ B&H)
Motherboard: MSI - B360M PRO-VDH Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($70.98 @ Newegg)
Memory: Team - Vulcan 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2400 Memory ($86.89 @ OutletPC)
Video Card: EVGA - GeForce GTX 1060 3GB 3GB GAMING Video Card ($248.90 @ OutletPC)
Total: $499.77
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-05-02 23:50 EDT-0400

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While G5600 isn't as good as i5-8400 is, it's cheaper than Core i5 and it's also better performing than your current CPU. So, going with G5600 is a worthwhile upgrade,
i3-4130 vs G5600, comparison: http://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i3-4130-vs-Intel-Pentium-Gold-G5600/1621vsm469126

Put in B360 chipset MoBo that doesn't have bells and whistles to jack up the price. But what it has is 4x RAM slots. And thanks to this, you can upgrade your 2x 4GB (8GB) RAM amount easily in the future if the need arises. Oh, the RAM is 2400 Mhz and it has CAS Latency of 14, making it more responsive than e.g CL15 and CL16 RAM kits.

Since GTX 1060 6GB GPU would've blown your budget, i put in GTX 1060 3GB GPU. While it doesn't have 6GB of VRAM, it's 3GB of VRAM is still enough to play today's titles with high/ultra settings @ 1920x1080 with solid 60+ FPS. In my Skylake build (full specs with pics in my sig), i too have GTX 1060 3GB GPU but mine is MSI Gaming X version.
Oh, GTX 1060 3GB GPU is also 3rd best GPU there is when it comes to the value (price to performance ratio). Only GTX 1070 Ti and GTX 1080 have better value than GTX 1060 3GB GPU has. While GTX 1060 6GB GPU is at 6th place when it comes to the value.

Or if you don't want to hassle with MoBo replacement, you can go for these two:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel - Core i5-4570 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor ($217.65 @ Amazon)
Video Card: EVGA - GeForce GTX 1060 3GB 3GB GAMING Video Card ($248.90 @ OutletPC)
Total: $466.55
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-05-03 00:04 EDT-0400

Again few words
i5-4570 is a bit better performing than G5600 and can be a viable upgrade. Especially since you can keep your MoBo and DDR3 RAM,
i3-4130 vs i5-4570, comparison: http://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i3-4130-vs-Intel-Core-i5-4570/1621vs2770
G5600 vs i5-4570, comparison: http://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Pentium-Gold-G5600-vs-Intel-Core-i5-4570/m469126vs2770

In my Haswell build (also, full specs with pics in my sig), i have i5-4590 which is about 3% better than i5-4570 which i have paired with GTX 760 (GTX 760 is about 81% worse than GTX 1060 3GB GPU). Despite older hardware, my Haswell build is handling today's games just fine with high settings @ 1920x1080 with 60+ FPS.

Bonus:
Here's comparison between both of my suggestions. Latest tech as a base and old timer as an alternative:
Userbenchmark PC Build Comparison

Baseline Bench: Game 60%, Desk 57%, Work 34%
CPU: Intel Pentium Gold G5600
GPU: Nvidia GTX 1060-3GB
HDD: WD Blue 1TB (2012)
RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2400 C14 2x4GB

Alternative Bench: Game 56%, Desk 51%, Work 22%
CPU: Intel Core i5-4570
GPU: Nvidia GTX 1060-3GB
HDD: WD Blue 1TB (2012)
RAM: G.SKILL Ripjaws DDR3 1600 C9 1x4GB

Latest tech performs a bit better because it has double the RAM to go around. Other than that, both have pretty equal performance.
 
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Yeah, you have to pick one or another. The $500 budget cannot do perfect upgrade. I would suggest to get GTX 1060. Yeah it will bottleneck but you will at least feel the upgrade performance rather than getting i5 8400 with the same GTX 750Ti which might gave 0 increase performance.

You should get another 4Gb piece of ram (preferably identical ram, if not at least make sure you can return it if it conflicted). Dual channel is a boost in performance in term of cpu utilization. It might help increase cpu performance. For me, i3-4130 is not a bad cpu. It still have 4 threads to make it up for performance.

I am more concern with your display. Make sure the gpu has the socket for your monitor. My office monitor do not have socket to my RX 480 or GTX 1060, so I have to buy a passive adapter so it can connect to my office monitor.

Use the rest of the money to buy an SSD. It should help in gaming performance, but you will be amazed by how much increase in loading time than HDD. A cheap $70 240Gb SSD should do just fine but look around for $95 480/512Gb SSD on sale. Its very worth it.

For cpu upgrade with the same motherboard, unless you can get a cheap i7, please forget about i5, you are just wasting money. 4 thread is on the verge of dying on modern games. You better off do what I suggest above and just save the money for new build with GTX 1060 and SSD prepared to be reused in the new build.
 

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for an i5 8400 you would need a new mobo and ddr4 ram

so we need to know the make and model of your motherboard and power supply

for 500 you can get an i5 compatible with your mobo 4gb more of ram and the 1060