Upgrades?

[SamwiseDB]

So, I have the generic Athlon 860K, R7 370 PC, and now the time comes for upgrades. I have three plans, and was wondering which ones would benefit real world power the most.

 

• FX-8350 + new mobo
• Haswell i5 (maybe 4440 or 4590) + new mobo
• Upgrade GPU (Maybe 960 or R9 380)

[ybriK]

Depends, I assume you prefer gaming? GTX 960 due to Nvidia's driver lower CPU overhead since you have a weak 4 core processor.

[don_svetlio]

R9 380 would get you the best performance improvement. It's around 15% faster than a 960 and has better DX12 support

3 minutes ago, ybriK said:

Depends, I assume you prefer gaming? GTX 960 due to Nvidia's driver lower CPU overhead since you have a weak 4 core processor.

A 380 would be fine with the Athlon - unlike FX, per-core performance is not as terrible.

[SamwiseDB]

would there be a bottleneck with a 960-class GPU, and a (sorry, Athlon) really not-that-powerful CPU?

[don_svetlio]

2 minutes ago, SamwiseDB said:

would there be a bottleneck with a 960-class GPU, and a (sorry, Athlon) really not-that-powerful CPU?

The Athlon can easily run the 380, it's not THAT weak. Performance of the 860K is around the same as an i5 2320 in QC tests. Ask @Prysin for exactly what you can expect

[ybriK]

2 hours ago, don_svetlio said:

R9 380 would get you the best performance improvement. It's around 15% faster than a 960 and has better DX12 support

A 380 would be fine with the Athlon - unlike FX, per-core performance is not as terrible.

What if a 390X was paired with the 860K? Would there be any form of stuttering in CPU heavy games like The Division & GTA 5?

[don_svetlio]

40 minutes ago, ybriK said:

What if a 390X was paired with the 860K? Would there be any form of stuttering in CPU heavy games like The Division & GTA 5?

Of course there would be a bottleneck - the 390X is a different class of GPU. As for stuttering, no idea.

[Herman Mcpootis]

2 hours ago, ybriK said:

What if a 390X was paired with the 860K? Would there be any form of stuttering in CPU heavy games like The Division & GTA 5?

max i would pair the 860k with is a 380x, the 390x will be bottlenecked by it. get at least a i5 or i7 of any generation for a 390x.

[SamwiseDB]

For a CPU upgrade, would you go 8350 or 4430?

[Prysin]

13 hours ago, SamwiseDB said:

So, I have the generic Athlon 860K, R7 370 PC, and now the time comes for upgrades. I have three plans, and was wondering which ones would benefit real world power the most.

 

• FX-8350 + new mobo
• Haswell i5 (maybe 4440 or 4590) + new mobo
• Upgrade GPU (Maybe 960 or R9 380)

What i would do, depending on the upgrade plans budget.

A) Get a GTX 960

B) Get a Core i3 6100 with a Z170 board and 2666MHz DDR4 RAM

C) Later on get a AMD Polaris or Nvidia Pascal GPU.

D) Get a Kaby Lake i5