Thinking of Upgrading

[JamesT85]

So at the moment i have a AMD A8-5500 APU however when i try to run GTA 5 on it or even BF4 I feel my graphics card is getting bottlenecked by my CPU as its normally 100% when I'm playing.

So i was thinking i should upgrade it the problem being i would also have to change my motherboard to be able to fit it. I mainly do gaming however i do some times record and Render too.

 

So he is what i ask for a £200 ($303.74) budget to find a CPU and motherboard.

 

Current PC spec's:

A MS-7778(JasmineR) motherbord
A cosair cx500 powersupply
A AMD A8 5500 APU Quad core 3.2
A AMD HD 7950 3G'S GDDR5
6Gs of ram 
1Tb Western digital blue

 

If you feel that some thing else is the bottleneck please say.

[ADZ_123_!"£]

So at the moment i have a AMD A8-5500 APU however when i try to run GTA 5 on it or even BF4 I feel my graphics card is getting bottlenecked by my CPU as its normally 100% when I'm playing.

So i was thinking i should upgrade it the problem being i would also have to change my motherboard to be able to fit it. I mainly do gaming however i do some times record and Render too.

 

So he is what i ask for a £200 ($303.74) budget to find a CPU and motherboard.

 

Current PC spec's:

A MS-7778(JasmineR) motherbord

A cosair cx500 powersupply

A AMD A8 5500 APU Quad core 3.2

A AMD HD 7950 3G'S GDDR5

6Gs of ram 

1Tb Western digital blue

 

If you feel that some thing else is the bottleneck please say.

I would get this mobo and cpu combo and upgrade to 8gbs of ram.

[DarrenP]

So at the moment i have a AMD A8-5500 APU however when i try to run GTA 5 on it or even BF4 I feel my graphics card is getting bottlenecked by my CPU as its normally 100% when I'm playing.

So i was thinking i should upgrade it the problem being i would also have to change my motherboard to be able to fit it. I mainly do gaming however i do some times record and Render too.

 

So he is what i ask for a £200 ($303.74) budget to find a CPU and motherboard.

 

Current PC spec's:

A MS-7778(JasmineR) motherbord

A cosair cx500 powersupply

A AMD A8 5500 APU Quad core 3.2

A AMD HD 7950 3G'S GDDR5

6Gs of ram 

1Tb Western digital blue

 

If you feel that some thing else is the bottleneck please say.

I'd suggest getting a brand new motherboard and CPU.

 

Something like the Intel Core i5-4460 + a Decent motherboard like the Gigabyte GA-Z97X-SLI.

[Str_Mape]

CPU - http://www.ebuyer.com/538192-intel-core-i5-4440-3-10ghz-socket-1150-6mb-cache-retail-boxed-processor-bx80646i54440
Board - http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00DZ7E7NG/