Upgrade?

[Guiltyxz]

Hi, I currently have a FX8320, 8gbs of RAM and an R9 270x. I was thinking of upgrading to a GTX 1070 (as a birthday gift to myself) in May. Then as a Christmas gift to my self get a Ryzen 5 6 core or Ryzen 7 CPU with a motherboard, and 16gbs of ram. What would you reccomend?

[r2724r16]

2 minutes ago, josbeph83 said:

What would you reccomend?

Firstly, I'm not sure exactly what you're trying to say. 

 

Secondly, your FX8250 will bottleneck almost any mid range GPU, so the CPU is what you'll want to upgrade first.

 

Lastly, AMD will be showing off Zen 2 CPUs very soon at CES, so I'd wait for those to drop and then decide what to get.

[Jurrunio]

In May it's unlikely you can buy the 1070 (or faster 10 series) new because Nvidia stopped producing these GPUs and it's up to the addin board partners (asus, evga, etc) and retailers to sell their remaining stock.

 

I myself would rather wait for AMD's new CPU and GPU. If Nvidia's GPU get a price dive then I'd buy them as well, but at this point the chance is very low.

[Guiltyxz]

13 minutes ago, r2724r16 said:

Firstly, I'm not sure exactly what you're trying to say. 

 

Secondly, your FX8250 will bottleneck almost any mid range GPU, so the CPU is what you'll want to upgrade first.

 

Lastly, AMD will be showing off Zen 2 CPUs very soon at CES, so I'd wait for those to drop and then decide what to get.

So what your saying is wait till Zen 2 CPUs are out, get one of them then get a new GPU?

[Guiltyxz]

1 minute ago, Jurrunio said:

In May it's unlikely you can buy the 1070 (or faster 10 series) new because Nvidia stopped producing these GPUs and it's up to the addin board partners (asus, evga, etc) and retailers to sell their remaining stock.

 

I myself would rather wait for AMD's new CPU and GPU. If Nvidia's GPU get a price dive then I'd buy them as well, but at this point the chance is very low.

So wait and just get the new AMD CPUs and GPUs. I was looking at a used 1070 (I’m in UK if that matters)

[Jurrunio]

Just now, josbeph83 said:

So wait and just get the new AMD CPUs and GPUs. I was looking at a used 1070 (I’m in UK if that matters)

the FX 8320, even if you overclock that to 5GHz (a difficult attempt for most people), it's still going to bottleneck the 1070 an awful lot at 1080p so you can't feel its potential (even the lower end 1060 is still getting CPU bottleneck at times). At that point, why even bother buying the graphics card.

[r2724r16]

4 minutes ago, josbeph83 said:

So what your saying is wait till Zen 2 CPUs are out, get one of them then get a new GPU?

Yep.

[Guiltyxz]

7 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

the FX 8320, even if you overclock that to 5GHz (a difficult attempt for most people), it's still going to bottleneck the 1070 an awful lot at 1080p so you can't feel its potential (even the lower end 1060 is still getting CPU bottleneck at times). At that point, why even bother buying the graphics card.

 

6 minutes ago, r2724r16 said:

Yep.

Thanks, I think I will do what @r2724r16 suggested.