[Upgrading rig, but not sure which way to go.]

You'll be largely CPU bound in many games, and that's just unfortunately the reality of the FX platform (even if you got a 9590 and dealt with the cooling and power requirements, assuming your motherboard could even run that chip). Upgrading the graphics card to a GTX 960 or 970 (or AMD equivalents, like the R9 270/280/290 series) wouldn't be a bad idea, per se, but the performance improvement won't help the CPU. To upgrade the CPU, that means a new motherboard, and (depending on your licence situation) new copy of Windows, not to mention the time for a total new build. If you're going that route, I'd go Intel Haswell with Z97 or Z97x; should let you re-use your DDR3 RAM and other peripherals at least. Honestly though, I can't imagine an FX-8350 + 660 Ti being that bad with modern games; I was using a Core 2 Quad Q9550 + GTX 660SC up until December/January without much complaint, and your system should be better than that across the board. Just my 2c.

 

SSD will do nothing for computationally bound tasks.

Agreed I was running a GTX 650 with 1 gig of V-RAM just fine.

 

IMO just save up enough untill you can buy a completely new rig. The one you have now should do you just fine.

[Need help upgrading my PC]

 

CPU: Intel® Core i5-4690K CPU @ 3.50GHz

GPU: AMD Radeon R9 200 Series (4Gb memory)

RAM: Corsair Vengeance 8GB (4+4)

OS: Windows 7 Home Premium

 

Case: Cooler Master Silencio 650

Fan: Zalman CNPS11X Performa V-Shaped

 

HDD: Seagate 2TB 64Mb SataIII (where I install programs and games)

Solid State Drive 2.5" 120GB SATA3 SAMSUNG (where I keep only the OS, advice of my friend, I don't install games here)

 

Thanks in advance :smile:

If your getting decent FPS in fallout 4 at medium settings an upgrade really isn't nessicary unless it is just a for the hell of it thing, witch I understand.

 

If your looking to get better fps a new GPU would come first assuming your power supply could power it and it fit in your case. An upgrade to an i7 would be nice, preferrably 4770k or 4790k. Hard drive and SSD are fine. You could grab some extra ram also.

 

IMO I would stick with what you have for awhile and just sacrafice lowered settings untill you have enough money for a full upgrade to something that can run current games at max.

[Hello World!]

My names Mike, i'm pretty gosh darn new to modding and all that jazz but i'm pretty eager to learn. I've worked on computers my whole life, but I never got much into coding until recently. I'm gonna do my best to upload some very mediocre, but handy mods in my time on Nexus.

 

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Hey Mike, nice to meet you. Im somewhat new to the nexus but deffinately to the forums. Out of curousity what have you done in the computer field?

[Just joined, got 1 month of premium.]

QPHY1EQUALS1FUTURE, get the lifetime membership if you plan on hanging around awhile. Well worth it.

I've had it since... um... when I joined... March 2007 or some where like that.

 

@ Moto: glad you do. I'm still trying to figure some of it out.

How was it in 2007? And that's alot of money to spend but I guess its on a good cause xD.

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