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nickcaronnickcaron

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I need to upgrade my Computer with my 400$ Budget, i dont want to go full tilt but get what i can get for the price above. Right now i have a:
AMD 4300 Quad Core
8GB Ram
GTX 1050TI
And a GA-78LMT-S2 motherboard
Once again i have a 400$ and i was thinking of getting the AMD 8350 with a 1060 6gb graphics card. shall i do this, if not what should i do.
 
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madmatt30
Little over budget with 16gb ram.
The board has a $30 mail in rebate though bringing the price down more if you actually get the money back.

Its a very decent board too, better than the budget msi ones easily.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 5 2600 3.4 GHz 6-Core Processor ($209.00 @ Canada Computers)
Motherboard: ASRock - B450M PRO4 Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard ($94.99 @ Newegg Canada)
Memory: Team - Vulcan 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-2666 Memory ($114.99 @ Canada Computers)
Total: $418.98
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-12-26 05:27 EST-0500

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Save a little more and sell your current parts aside from the case and the drives and psu. Then do yourself a favor and get an i5-8400 or ryzen 2600 and a decent mobo and your gtx 1060. It will give you great cpu power for the future. Do not invest any money in an fx system.
 
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nickcaronnickcaron

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what about my motherboard, will it be able to handle such i5 8400
 
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nickcaronnickcaron

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also very helpful but u dont recommend i upgrade my GPU?

 
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no, it's still capable of playing games, long as you are willing to sacrifice a few detail settings to get 60 FPS. You definitely want to move to a modern platform first, only then worry about upgrading the GPU.
 
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You will get the same advice from absolutely anyone on these forums that's worth listening to.

You have a low end old motherboard, sata 2, no USB 3, doesn't have the vrm setup to handle anything past a 6300 & isn't capable le of overclocking on.

A 6300 won't get you enough real world performance increase to warranty the spend or the time upgrading.

Get yourself on a new platform with modern specs, worry about the gpu afterwards.

The ryzen will be a world of difference, 50% more powerful on a single core, 3 X more powerful on multicore performance & will last you years.

As said you can always drop to medium settings on a 1050ti to maintain fps, a cpu limitation (which is what you have currently) can't really ever be counteracted.

With a $400 spend a base system u pgrade makes far more sense than your original idea

The board I listed is simply because I don't know if you have an atx or matx case, if its atx there are better choices for a few more dollars

Probably squeeze an ssd in there too.
 
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Adding to what madmatt recommended,

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 5 2600 3.4 GHz 6-Core Processor ($154.99 @ Amazon)
Motherboard: MSI - B450M PRO-M2 Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard ($69.99 @ Amazon)
Memory: Team - Vulcan 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3000 Memory ($99.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Samsung - 860 Evo 500 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($71.00 @ Newegg Business)
Total: $395.97
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-12-26 04:54 EST-0500

This is worth going for much more than a GPU upgrade right now. A GTX 1060 won't be fully utilized by your current CPU anyway.
 
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nickcaronnickcaron

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I looked into this realizing i did not announce that i am in Canada where everything seems to be a little more expensive.
I took the advice on the Ryzen 5 2600 (209$)
I was also looking at the B450M PRO VDH (108$)
1 TB is installed
and lastly is 8gb of ram for now good enough or is this not a option and i should save up and 100% go for the 16gb?
 
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Is there no way you can get 16 GB? It's recommended to have 16 for a gaming system, but if you really can't manage it at all then 8 GB will have to do. Also, the 500 GB storage is SSD storage, which is much faster than a traditional hard drive. If you have a 1 TB SSD, well and good.
 
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Little over budget with 16gb ram.
The board has a $30 mail in rebate though bringing the price down more if you actually get the money back.

Its a very decent board too, better than the budget msi ones easily.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 5 2600 3.4 GHz 6-Core Processor ($209.00 @ Canada Computers)
Motherboard: ASRock - B450M PRO4 Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard ($94.99 @ Newegg Canada)
Memory: Team - Vulcan 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-2666 Memory ($114.99 @ Canada Computers)
Total: $418.98
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-12-26 05:27 EST-0500

If you actually have the money in hand the ryzen is worth buying at that price NOW, it's heavily discounted till the 29th.
 
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nickcaronnickcaron

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what i will have to do is save more for the 16gb, which is actually only my next paycheck considering the 16gb is only
about 100$.
to confirm everything, i should order the ryzen 5 2600
b450m pro m2
and then get the 16gb as soon as possible
will Hdd do for now as well?
 
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Yes, an SSD is just an optional upgrade, although it really does speed up systems, but it's not really essential, you can add one later.
 
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nickcaronnickcaron

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i appreciate the canadian translation but i will hold back on thje 16gb and order everything else and then when i have the money the 16gb will be ordered, thank you

 
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nickcaronnickcaron

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thank you for the quick replies and the time out of your day, i will order what is needed due to this conversation.. thank you!

 
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