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Hi,

 

I currently have enough money to either buy a new GPU (I was thinking about the R9 390 or the GTX 970) or to buy a new CPU, which would be the i5 4690K.

My current pc is an FX-6300 and an ASUS R9 270x. So I was wondering what would be better to upgrade; the processor or the videocard. I do mainly gaming and sometimes a little bit of coding, but nothing too serious in that aspect. Any help would be greatly appreciated! :)

 

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get a new cpu now than get a new gpu later

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-Personally- I would get a R9 390 and upgrade cpu around Xmass with the skylake cpu's 

even if your new card is bottlenecked , it's still going to give you better fps, and your cpu will be upgraded later ( meaning you will get a better gaming experience faster )

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GPU, the 6300 will bottleneck the 970, but the gaming benefit will be bigger than getting a i5 and sticking to the 270X. (970=390 at 1080p and its much more efficient).

 

970OC>390 though

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While the CPU will limit the 970 or 390, you'll still get a decent performance boost while you save up for a more powerful CPU.

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I forgot to note that the cpu is currently overclocked at 4.5 GHz, I do not know if that makes a difference in terms of bottlenecking?

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did you budget in the cost of a new motherboard with the CPU? (I'm assuming you did).

 

I would go new GPU personally, the 970 or R9 would be great cards.

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I forgot to note that the cpu is currently overclocked at 4.5 GHz, I do not know if that makes a difference in terms of bottlenecking?

It does reduce the bottleneck.

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New GPU first for sure, the 270x isn't very good. If you get a 970/290/390 it will be bottlenecked by you CPU until you can upgrade the processor. You will get more immediate performance by far if you upgrade your graphics card, but you should definitely upgrade your CPU later

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GPU, the 6300 will bottleneck the 970, but the gaming benefit will be bigger than getting a i5 and sticking to the 270X. (970=390 at 1080p and its much more efficient).

 

970OC>390 though

Quick correction. The 390 is better than the 970, even with oc. The 390's between the 980 and the 980ti.

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First GPU, and then CPU.

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Okay thanks, I shall purchase the 390 first, and save up for the i5 + motherboard after that! Thank you for the help :)

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Quick correction. The 390 is better than the 970, even with oc. The 390's between the 980 and the 980ti.

Not in my experience. My 970 beats my friends 390. Not out of the box, but mine OCs like crazy (up to 1640MHz) and his crashes with a boost of+50MHz. I pull ahead about 2-5 FPS in some titles (tried SC, GTA5, and modded Skyrim).

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Not in my experience. My 970 beats my friends 390. Not out of the box, but mine OCs like crazy (up to 1640MHz) and his crashes with a boost of+50MHz. I pull ahead about 2-5 FPS in some titles (tried SC, GTA5, and modded Skyrim).

Oh wow jee wiz. A whole extra 5 frames at best with it overclocked over more than 60%(yes its by that much). You sure showed me. No dip if you overclock it that high. I wasn't even aware it could get that high without throttling. Was temp does it even run at underload?

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Oh wow jee wiz. A whole extra 5 frames at best with it overclocked over more than 60%(yes its by that much). You sure showed me. No dip if you overclock it that high. I wasn't even aware it could get that high without throttling. Was temp does it even run at underload?

83ºC :P MSI TWinFrozer, 100% fan speed (I put it down coz i didnt want my GPU melting. It was still more efficient that my friends 390 though.)

 

edit: and the idle temps where higher than expected too, sits at about 40ºC with 0% fans and it was at about 50ºC.

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Damm. What do you mean still more efficent anyway?

 

The power consumption from the wall was still lower with the OC than when the system had the AMD card in it. (can't remember numbers though sry)

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