Advice needed: Keep MOBO and/or CPU?

[Artoine]

First, here are my planned purchases:

 

Case: 

Fractal Design Define R4 Black Pearl

 

PSU:

Sharkoon WPM600 (Black, 2x PCIe, Cable-Management, Retail)

 

RAM:

Corsair 8 GB DDR3-1600 Kit (CML8GX3M2A1600C9, Vengeance LP, XMP, Lite Retail)

 

GPU:

Club 3D Radeon HD 7950 Royal King (2x DVI, HDMI, 2x Mini-DP, CrossFireX)

 

 

 

What Motherboard and CPU I already have:

 

Motherboard: 870 Extreme3 R2.0

 

CPU:              AMD Phenom II X6 1090T 3.2Ghz (with boxed fan)

 

 

Should I keep my motherboard and/or CPU? Or replace one of the two?

 

Also, what do you think of this rig?

 

 

 

 

[bennyino]

i'd get a 3570k or 4670k and an mpower or a gryphon or z77-gd65, z87-gd65, but thats my opinion plus i personally am not familiar with that psu brand hope you read plenty of reviews on it or maybe its just me that doesnt know it :P the psu is one of the most important parts of a build :)

[Toasted Waffles]

Personally Saying, The cpu is outdated (like anything is new for more than 8 months lol)and the Motherboard looks kinda outdated. I would suggest looking into upgrading into the new haswell chipset. You can get a pretty cheap build that still kicks on the battle field. Hope this helps. When was this machine / Rig built?

[Artoine]

oh my fault, i didn't say what my budget was: 200 euro ($261.48 atm) to replace my mobo and/or cpu

Is this realistic or should i just save up longer?

 

I think the mobo and cpu are now 1.5/2 years old

[Toasted Waffles]

oh my fault, i didn't say what my budget was: 200 euro ($261.48 atm) to replace my mobo and/or cpu

Is this realistic or should i just save up longer?

 

I think the mobo and cpu are now 1.5/2 years old

 

 

 

Thats not a problem at All, I can easy price out a machine for ya. Do you have access to Newegg.com?

[ALXAndy]

If your system provides an acceptable gaming experience and you don't feel hindered by your CPU then keep it.

 

If you want to upgrade then the best solution in my humble opinion as well as all of the game devs asked recently* would be to go for an 8 core AMD, preferably the cheaper variety (8320) and then overclock it.

 

If that requires a new board then refer to my opening line. If you need to upgrade then do so, if you want to upgrade and have the cash then consider the CPUs I have mentioned here.

 

Whether we like it or not, or like AMD or not the simple fact is that the consoles will force 8 core support onto the PC at which point the 8 core AMD chips perform better than their Intel counterparts at the same price level** and offer the best bang for the buck. When fully supported (IE all 8 cores) the 8 core AMDs will perform up there with the Intel gaming CPUs of choice.

 

* one.

 

Have a good read of this - http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-future-proofing-your-pc-for-next-gen

 

** You can pick up an 8 core AMD CPU now (the 8320) for pretty much the same price as Intel's I3 offering. Hence my price for price analogy. At which point the Intel will only win when there's only two cores being used.

[Artoine]

I think I will keep my CPU and MOBO for now just to see if that works well with those planned purchases I mentioned above,

If i'm not happy with that I will re-read your advice and immediatly buy a new MOBO and/or CPU

 

thanks for the fast replies and the info :)