Upgrade Help? :'(

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I currently have an i5-3470@ 3.20 GHz, 8gb of DDR3 RAM and a GTX 950 SSC. I'm looking to upgrade within something somewhat small maybe around 200$, but confused if i should go towards upgrading CPU or the GPU. My power supply is a EVGA 80+ 600w so i don't feel that needs upgrading at this current time.
 
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I would say look for a used GTX970,GTX980, GTX1060, RX480, or RX580. Graphics card prices are dropping on the used market right now, you might be able to snag one for $200 or less, just make sure its not a fake :)

Your CPU will not bottleneck any of these cards, that being said, a better CPU will always help performance, but you will be fine until you want to buy a gpu more powerful than the ones i listed above.

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I have had SOOOOO much hate towards the 3gb 1060s, idk why it just seems like 3gb is such an odd number and felt like they were overpriced, which like you say they're inflated now but i'll look into it more and see if maybe i can get it to test from a local store or something. thanks for the response
 
I would say look for a used GTX970,GTX980, GTX1060, RX480, or RX580. Graphics card prices are dropping on the used market right now, you might be able to snag one for $200 or less, just make sure its not a fake :)

Your CPU will not bottleneck any of these cards, that being said, a better CPU will always help performance, but you will be fine until you want to buy a gpu more powerful than the ones i listed above.

 
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