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Hello I have a question. I just upgraded to a newer board and am not seeing an huge increase in gaming performance and am wondering if a better Graphics card would improve on it. 

 

I have currently a RX 550 Radeon with 4GB of VDDR5 ram

 

MSI 870U-g55 mother board

 

A Phenom 2 X4 955 quad core processor,(thinking about upgrading to a Phenom 2 X6 as well. I would consider going with an FX chip but I'm not sure this board supports FX CPU's)

 

16GB of crucial 1600mhz DDR3 ram

 

240GB SSD boot drive

 

with this set up I can run XCOM 2 on medium to high settings pretty easily,(runs a bit smother on the medium) but would like to get it to be able to run on ultra settings as this is an older title and not super demanding graphically from what I can tell. I have concidered also trying to do crossfire with the current card though I don't think my card is capable of cross fire as i didn't see a plug for a cross fire cable,(hell the card didn't even need power from the PSU)

 

Also I'm wondering if there are RGB lighting options for my current motherboard as well as I would eventually like to buy a mid tower tempered glass case and use the gigabyte aura 3d case I'm using now for the old board I replaced as a video capture system. That is a Bio-star AM2+ board with 4GB of DDR2 and I have a dual core atholon X2 CPU and HD 6450 graphics card I can put in in if I don't replace the CPU and graphics card in the main rig of which the current CPU and graphics card in the main rig would work with the older board,(AMD is pretty amazing when it comes to interchangeability.

 

Thanks in advance

 

 

 

 

  1. imreloadin

    imreloadin

    Just save up for Ryzen and change platforms all together. Definitely do NOT buy FX...

  2. Origami Cactus

    Origami Cactus

    Yeah even ryzen 2200g or even 1200 is better than any fx chips.

  3. bds48312

    bds48312

    I have considered Ryzen as well. My roomate has a Ryzen 5 machine he uses for podcast editing and streaming and that thing is an absolute beast at video rendering,(which is another reason i had considered a Phenom 2 X6). I'm pretty impressed with Ryzen 7 and drool at the thought of a threadripper system paired with two of the 5,000 dollar 24GB nvidia cards in SLI,(which I know is total overkill as the Ryzen 7 with something like a rx 560 or 1060 would be more than enough but if I ever won the lotto, well why not). I might just do that though as this current system does most everything I do better than the old system,9and it runs XCOM 2 much better at medium and definitely high settings).

     

    might be worth it too if I'm going to spend money on a fancy tempered glass case and all to wait till I can either save up enough to build a Ryzen 7 system or the price of components comes down enough to be affordable,(maybe even build a threadripper system once those come down to less than I'd reasonably be able to afford for the whole build)

     

    thanks for the input as well

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