Upgrading my rig

[Raduiswoest]

Dear PC gamers,

 

After about 2 years of gaming on a rig that was build by a friend of mine, I was thinking of upgrading it with a new GPU and CPU.

The only problem that I am having right now is that I am not very hard ware savvy, so I have no idea which CPU to buy!

The GPU I was thinking of buying is the new MSI GeForce GTX 1070 Gaming X 8G because it is in my price range of about 500 Euros of the 800 Euros I currently have.

So now I am still left with the question of what CPU to buy that will suffice for my gaming needs, or maybe I don't have to upgrade my CPU at all. I really have no idea.

Most of the games I play are very CPU intensive, like DayZ Standalone, H1Z1 King of The Kill and Arma III but I feel like my current CPU might severly bottleneck the 1070 I am planning on buying. 

So I was hoping you guys here on the LinusTechTips Forum could help me out with picking a new CPU or advise me to keep the one I have?

 

(Extra info- The CPU Price range can vary from 200 to 300 Euros which I will have left after buying the GPU)

My specs are linked!

 

Specs.txt

[Juanse]

Use pcpartpicker for the speclist, makes everything easier

[Trevor87]

What motherboard do you have in your PC ? 

[Raduiswoest]

4 minutes ago, Trevor87 said:

What motherboard do you have in your PC ? 

As you can see in the specs.txt file: Asus Sabertooth 990FX R2.0

[Trevor87]

Reading the reviews for nice peering would be a AMD FX-8300   

[Raduiswoest]

9 minutes ago, Trevor87 said:

Reading the reviews for nice peering would be a AMD FX-8300   

Heey Trevor, I do already have the AMD FX-8350 Eight-Core Processor.

Won't the CPU you suggested me be a downgrade?

[Trevor87]

 

5 minutes ago, Raduiswoest said:

Heey Trevor, I do already have the AMD FX-8350 Eight-Core Processor.

Won't the CPU you suggested me be a downgrade?

Yes it would be a down grade. If you have that CPU I would rather just get a the GTX 1070 and save the money and move over to a intel build later on if AMD new rang of CPU  they are releasing soon are not that good. 

[Raduiswoest]

2 minutes ago, Trevor87 said:

 

Yes it would be a down grade. If you have that CPU I would rather just get a the GTX 1070 and save the money and move over to a intel build later on if AMD new rang of CPU are not that good. 

Thank you so much for your advise!

Would you recommend any Intel CPU between 200 and 300 Euros which I should buy if I would still want to?

[Trevor87]

Your build is a good build with your card graphics card that you are going to add it middle to high end build in between the two .

[Prokart2000]

1 minute ago, Trevor87 said:

Your build is a good build with your card graphics card that you are going to add it middle to high end build in between the two .

wont the 8350 bottleneck the 1070 hard?

[CommanderAlex]

3 minutes ago, Prokart2000 said:

wont the 8350 bottleneck the 1070 hard?

I would think that the 8350 would. Looking at comparison videos online(i7-4790k), it would be worse. 

[Trevor87]

16 minutes ago, Prokart2000 said:

wont the 8350 bottleneck the 1070 hard?

Yes you are right but to upgrade  CPU that will not hold back the card will blow his budget it would make seance to wait a year or two to upgrade his PC. I have never heard such nonce about bottle neck so much confusion lol about 1070.  

[Raduiswoest]

11 minutes ago, CommanderAlex said:

I would think that the 8350 would. Looking at comparison videos online(i7-4790k), it would be worse. 

Heey Alex, 

That was my thought exactly, can you recommend me any Intel CPU between 200 and 300 Euros that will do my 1070 honor?

[Trevor87]

To give you long term game I5 6600K or non K if not over clocking that be good match with GTX  1070.

But then you will have to upgrade your motherboard and ram. 

[lukart]

For less than 300€ go with this:

 

PCPartPicker part list: http://de.pcpartpicker.com/list/ctgGTW
Price breakdown by merchant: http://de.pcpartpicker.com/list/ctgGTW/by_merchant/

CPU: Intel Core i5-6400 2.7GHz Quad-Core Processor  (€177.45 @ Mindfactory) 
Motherboard: ASRock H170 Pro4/D3 ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  (€82.89 @ Amazon Deutschland) 
Total: €260.34
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-07-22 00:43 CEST+0200

 

You will be much better fitted than the current CPU.