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I am on a strict budget of £500 inc windows and came to the conclusion that I would get an fx 6300 and a GTX 750ti for upgrade later.

Upon finding out that my friend ordered 2 copies of windows instead of one I can have one saving £70. This ment I could afford to upgrade eather the cpu to an i5 4460 or the gpu to an r9 380 (would go amd gpu as the MOBO supports crossfire but not sli) and do the other later.

Having thought for a while I decided I would go with the cpu upgrade and get an i5 4460 with an r7 360 and eccept a large bottleneck for 12 months until I can afford an r9 380 and run them in crossfire with the i5 and have a decent pc. In another 2 years or so I could then get a high end i5 or a low end i7, upgrade ram to 16gb and have a complete beast.

Is this a good idea

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I'd say get the i5 now because the fx can run into bottleneck issues with future gpus easily

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Get an athlon X4 860K with a nice cooler to OC the crap out of it, and get an FM2+ board.

And get a R9 380. It will be balanced very well, but it doesn't really give you room to upgrade...

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GPU. The FX wont bottleneck- it will be very minimal, something close to 5% but that's about it.

 

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/answers/id-2538834/amd-6300-bottleneck-gtx-960.html

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/answers/id-2350395/6300-280-bottlenecking.html

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/answers/id-2302547/6300-bottleneck-285.html

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/answers/id-2247331/amd-6300-bottleneck-280.html

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What I mean, is running the i5 with a low end gpu like the r7 360 and excepting a bottleneck with the intention of buying an r9 380 in 12 months time and running the two in crossfire for GTX 970 like performance for less cost and still getting the i5, agood idea

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If you want to do that, they yes- the i5 is the way to go.

 

What I mean, is running the i5 with a low end gpu like the r7 360 and excepting a bottleneck with the intention of buying an r9 380 in 12 months time and running the two in crossfire for GTX 970 like performance for less cost and still getting the i5, agood idea

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If you want to do that, they yes- the i5 is the way to go.

Will the r7 360 and the r9 380 run in crossfire

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