Upgrades for a friend

[Romah]

So i'm helping a friend upgrade his computer soon for christmas, and i need some sort of support on if there parts would bottle neck each other in anyway, or there are any better alternatives.

 

He wants to move away from AMD for CPU and the motherboard has been used in 2 past builds, so its on its last legs. (good reason to move to intel)

Would the existing GPU bottleneck the new CPU?

 

>> = upgrading to

Build -

MSI 760GM-P23 >> Gigabyte GA-Z97P-D3

FX-6300 >> Intel i5-4690k

8GB Corsair RAM (1 stick) >> another stick (16gb total)

Cooler Master 212 Evo

MSI R9 280 3GB

Corsair CX 500W PSU

 

I believe this is the right section as its basically a new build.

Any ideas or suggestions are highly appreciated. 

 

[Fate]

No bottleneck, but it'd be better to go with something like an XFX TS 550W. It's on sale for quite cheap right now http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817207013

The CX series (sub 850W), are relatively poor quality and are not suited for higher end builds.

[GrobfootGaming]

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[Romah]

No bottleneck, but it'd be better to go with something like an XFX TS 550W. It's on sale for quite cheap right now http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817207013

The CX series (sub 850W), are relatively poor quality and are not suited for higher end builds.

Thanks for verifying that for me, thanks for the suggestion, i feel the power supply will stand up for now until he can upgrade it further on in the future, thanks for this though 

[Kobathor]

You're good. Just do what those guys up there said, change the PSU out.

 

TBH he won't see crazy performance boosts from upgrading CPUs, especially in games. Maybe +10-15 FPS (unless he plays games like Far Cry 4 or Battlefield 4.)

[Romah]

You're good. Just do what those guys up there said, change the PSU out.

 

TBH he won't see crazy performance boosts from upgrading CPUs, especially in games. Maybe +10-15 FPS (unless he plays games like Far Cry 4 or Battlefield 4.)

Thanks.

He's a large player of gta v and the FX-6300 just isn't performing great on that, so i feel the upgrade will benefit him in a way that he will hopefully notice  B)

[Kobathor]

Thanks.

He's a large player of gta v and the FX-6300 just isn't performing great on that, so i feel the upgrade will benefit him in a way that he will hopefully notice  B)

Oh. In GTAV he will notice. I would upgrade. 

[Romah]

Decided to change the motherboard out for a MSI B85-G41-PCMate

any complaints about this motherboard or any reasons not to get it?

[Starelementpoke]

Decided to change the motherboard out for a MSI B85-G41-PCMate

any complaints about this motherboard or any reasons not to get it?

Will have bios incompatibilities and issues with the cpu out of the box. 

[Romah]

Will have bios incompatibilities and issues with the cpu out of the box. 

Thanks, i did read about this somewhere, guess he'll just have to go with the slightly more expensive one