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So I have bought this prebuild PC on BestBuy, and I have been using it for around 8 months. I'm planning to upgrade this PC for mainstream game like Fallout 4, Batman Arkham, Battlefiled1, ect. My question is which part should I upgrade, and which part should I keep. I'm also wanted to upgrade the GPU to the RX 480, RX 470, or the GTX 1060, but I worried that my current CPU will bottleneck it. By the way, my budget is around $500.

Here's are my specs

CPU: AMD FX-8320(overclocked to 4.2 ghz)

Motherboard: GA-78LMT-USB3 6.0

GPU: AMD R7 250(core clock is overclocked to 1250 mhz, memory clock is overclocked to 1020 mhz)

RAM: 16Gb DDR3 1600 mhz

Hard drive: 2tb seagate 7200 RPM

 

Any help would be appreciated, and I'm sorry if my grammar is bad.

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2 minutes ago, zacXL2099 said:

So I have bought this prebuild PC on BestBuy, and I have been using it for around 8 months. I'm planning to upgrade this PC for mainstream game like Fallout 4, Batman Arkham, Battlefiled1, ect. My question is which part should I upgrade, and which part should I keep. I'm also wanted to upgrade the GPU to the RX 480, RX 470, or the GTX 1060, but I worried that my current CPU will bottleneck it. By the way, my budget is around $500.

Here's are my specs

CPU: AMD FX-8320(overclocked to 4.2 ghz)

Motherboard: GA-78LMT-USB3 6.0

GPU: AMD R7 250(core clock is overclocked to 1250 mhz, memory clock is overclocked to 1020 mhz)

RAM: 16Gb DDR3 1600 mhz

Hard drive: 2tb seagate 7200 RPM

 

Any help would be appreciated, and I'm sorry if my grammar is bad.


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PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-6500 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($198.99 @ SuperBiiz)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler  ($24.38 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: ASRock H170A-X1 ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  ($76.98 @ Newegg)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB GAMING Video Card  ($249.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Total: $550.34
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-08-04 15:24 EDT-0400

 

May I ask how much Watt your PSU has?

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5 minutes ago, RaptorCandy said:


What do you think about this:

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-6500 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($198.99 @ SuperBiiz)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler  ($24.38 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: ASRock H170A-X1 ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  ($76.98 @ Newegg)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB GAMING Video Card  ($249.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Total: $550.34
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-08-04 15:24 EDT-0400

 

May I ask how much Watt your PSU has?

I think he can go with little cheaper mother board, Asus has them for like 55$. 

Also I think he doesn't need that CPU cooler, he won't OC it so it can work with stock cooler just fine

Intel Core 2 Duo E7500 @3.3Ghz | Asus P5Q SE2 775 Socket | Asus Geforce 9600GT 1GB @700Mhz | 2x2GB DDR2 800MHZ RAM | 400w Codogen PSU | 310GB Seagate 7200.10

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2 minutes ago, AssAss1n said:

I think he can go with little cheaper mother board, Asus has them for like 55$. 

Also I think he doesn't need that CPU cooler, he won't OC it so it can work with stock cooler just fine

The motherboard is a good one for the price. Most of the motherboards around 55$ aren't that good compared to the ones that are 75$ and above. Keep in mind that the Haswell CPU's don't come with a stock aircooler.

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The one which you linked does have aircooler with it.

 

I agree with you, if you pay more of course quality will get better, however this guy is on budget. I think 55$ motherboard will work just fine for him

Intel Core 2 Duo E7500 @3.3Ghz | Asus P5Q SE2 775 Socket | Asus Geforce 9600GT 1GB @700Mhz | 2x2GB DDR2 800MHZ RAM | 400w Codogen PSU | 310GB Seagate 7200.10

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3 minutes ago, AssAss1n said:

The one which you linked does have aircooler with it.

 

I agree with you, if you pay more of course quality will get better, however this guy is on budget. I think 55$ motherboard will work just fine for him

Why should he pay for the 55$ motherboard when he can ad 26$ more and get a better one instead? I don't think he will arhue about the 26$ he ads.

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38 minutes ago, RaptorCandy said:


What do you think about this:

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-6500 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($198.99 @ SuperBiiz)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler  ($24.38 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: ASRock H170A-X1 ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  ($76.98 @ Newegg)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB GAMING Video Card  ($249.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Total: $550.34
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-08-04 15:24 EDT-0400

 

May I ask how much Watt your PSU has?

The PSU is pretty bad so I'm planning top upgrade it too, I have 350w PSU :P

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