Motherboard or Processor? (AMD)

[_floolf_]

Hello people of the internet!

(If you are likely to get offended by non-native bad english please leave now, because I can't guarantee I'm not going to make mistakes. English isn't my mothertounge, mind you.)

(If not, I'd appreciate your support.)

So I've got myself a new Pc lately, rocking a Radeon R9 270x graphics card, a sapphire vaporX edition in particular, 8GBs of DDR3 1600 MHz Corsair Vengeance Pro RAM, a combination of an HDD (1 TB Seagate Barracuda) and an SSD (120 GB Samsung 840 Evo), a Gigabyte UD3 motherboard (Don't know wich one exactly, but it cost about 90€), and finally an AMD FX 8320 CPU.

There's just one problem: Due to the fact that my CPU only cost half as much as my GPU in order to archieve my price goal, I am now bottlenecking like crazy in games like PlanetSide 2, Minecraft or Arma 2.

I know, my FPS issues in minecraft are there just because Java seems to hate AMD, but that's not the point of this topic. I am looking forward to upgrading my system quite a bit, but for now I only have about 200€. (That's about 167,26£ or 276,44$.)

I really need better CPU performance, but the only real option for me would be an AMD FX 8350 CPU for 155€, because it is supported for my motherboard. In order to upgrade to an FX 9370 for 200€, wich would fit my budget and graphics card just finde, I'd need to upgrade to a new motherboard.

So what should I do? Buy a new motherboard and overclock my existing CPU, wich isn't possible right now, and later upgrade to a more powerful CPU, or buy a new CPU now to get better performance instantly?

Greetings, _floolf_

(Just for the sake of pointing that out: The picture below shows my Obsidian 650D case, and it's quite blurry. That's because I had to shoot the Pic with my iPad's camera, because my stupid Galaxy S4's camera had to die on me, wich sucks. So sorry for giving you guys eye-cancer.)

[Rorgash]

that CPU isnt bottlenecking anything at all anywhere

[wng_kingsley7]

Since you have a system already purchased, I would in your shoes wait till you have enough money to get a graphics card upgrade. Buying another system would be a waste of money.

You're system looks pretty good (better than mine)

 

Also hello @_floolf_ welcome to the forum.

[Wiflare]

That's a great cpu, it shouldn't be bottlenecking a 270x, but if you want more performance the 8350 is a solid choice.

[mgsstar]

Why not just upgrade the graphics card as it is the graphics card that is bottlenecking and not the cpu (the 8320 is a great cpu for gaming)? A GTX 760 would be a good choice.

[WoodenMarker]

The 8320 and the 9370 use the same coresand are especially the same cpu at different clocks. Just oc your 8320.

[Priller]

Upgrade the GPU and shut off 4 cores and OC the crap out of the remaining cores for games that arent optimized for alot of cores. 

[MontBlanco]

A lot of people OC their 8320 to match 8350 or the newer 9370. 8320 has the same architecture, Vishera, so no point buying 8350 or 9370 because all they have is higher Ghz which you can also gain FREE by OC.