Upgrading Darth Frankenstein

[266947_1454182200]

    I'm looking to upgrade my machine in the next couple of months. Im keeping the budget at around $400.

 

  I currently have an FX 6300, with an Msi 760gma p-34 mb(with an R9 390x lol).

 

   I'm looking at two options currently. An I5- 6400 ASRock z170 pro4s and 16gb of ddr4 or an i5-4690k or Haswell price equivalent and ASRock Fatal1ty z97.

 

Any suggestions? 

[Alfered Bie]

I would go for the 6400. Use that for several years and upgrade to whatever the cannonlake(?) i7 is. LGA 1150 has virtually no upgrade path. 

[Aytex]

Go for a i5 4690k, mobo and a cooler

Why? Because the skylake cpu will be costing more because of the ram

 

Though you can go for the 6400 for future upgrade abillity

[EarthboundHero]

I'd say the 4690K and a cooler, then you can OC.

[Norman]

I don't know if you have a SSD but I think it's a must have even starting with a 120g to start with.  I've upgraded to a 480g now and I think it's the # 1 upgade if you dont have it 

[EarthboundHero]

1 minute ago, Norman said:

I don't know if you have a SSD but I think it's a must have even starting with a 120g to start with.  I've upgraded to a 480g now and I think it's the # 1 upgade if you dont have it 

No, that processor is bottlenecking his 390X hardcore. That should be #1 priority. 

[266947_1454182200]

1 minute ago, Norman said:

I don't know if you have a SSD but I think it's a must have even starting with a 120g to start with.  I've upgraded to a 480g now and I think it's the # 1 upgade if you dont have it 

I do. A Crucial Mx200 500gb. This is an Air 540 case so most of my drives are behind the MB

 

[266947_1454182200]

14 minutes ago, EarthboundHero said:

No, that processor is bottlenecking his 390X hardcore. That should be #1 priority. 

I lost my r9 280 due to backfeed  when I lost the Neutral in my home electric. I liked  the price of the 390x. 

[266947_1454182200]

1 hour ago, 266947_1454182200 said:

    I'm looking to upgrade my machine in the next couple of months. Im keeping the budget at around $400.

 

  I currently have an FX 6300, with an Msi 760gma p-34 mb(with an R9 390x lol).

 

   I'm looking at two options currently. An I5- 6400 ASRock z170 pro4s and 16gb of ddr4 or an i5-4690k or Haswell price equivalent and ASRock Fatal1ty z97.

 

Any suggestions? 

For a clarification both of those builds also include a Hyper 212 evo. I know I have plenty of room for water cooling,  but this is an air flow case and I could care less about fan noise. There is no way that I'm gong to hear a case fan over a window mounted AC anyway.lol