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ended up getting the RX 580 8g

Hello everyone, i have a Optiplex 3010 mt in a costume case with 600w semi moduler psu i5-3470 and 8g of ddr3 ram
now i have about $200 to spend on upgrade so my question is should i get a $200 gpu or should i upgrade my ram to 16g ddr 3 and get a $120-130 gpu or do a gpu and upgrade my cpu to i7-3770 and get a gpu?
and which gpu should i get?
my main objectives are playing games like bannerlord and such, recording, editing and youtube uploads.

thank you all in advance :)

 

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I'd throw in an extra 8GB of RAM and an RX 570/580 or GTX 1650 Super - that's about as high end of a graphics card as I'd go for a 3770.

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2 minutes ago, Frostmoore said:

can't do both and a gpu

Why ? 

Interms of budget it should fit 

 

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4 minutes ago, TofuHaroto said:

Why ? 

Interms of budget it should fit 

 

budget wise it dosn't.
3770 is about $70-$90 on ebay
ram is about $80 on ebay when it's about $130 Amazon ( have 2 sticks of 4 so would need to buy 2 sticks of 8 )
i would have nothing left for the gpu

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