Really need help with my build

[OcramBro]

Hey everyone, I built my computer this year, and I'm wanting to upgrade my rig so I can give my brother my old parts so he doesn't have to spend as much money on a rig. I need help and suggestions on how to make my rig better at gaming, recording, editing and rendering (intel is out of the question because my budget for the upgrade is only $300. 

 

Part List:

Memory:G.Skill Ares 2x4 2100mhz 

 

CPU: AMD Fx-6300 (using stock cooler)

 

Mobo: Gigabyte 970A UD3P

 

Case: Deepcool Tesseract (sidewindow)

 

Power Supply: EVGA 500w 80+ PSU

 

Storage: Seagate Barracuda 500gb HDD

 

Video Card: MSI r7-370 2gb

 

 

[Miller1218]

get an ssd and an rx 480

[Miller1218]

get an ssd and an rx 480

[Miller1218]

Just now, Miller1218 said:

get an ssd and an rx 480

check Jay's two cents to see what the best one is

[EPPHO]

Get GTX1060/RX480 and some decent CPU cooler and overclock it.

[Zyndo]

8 minutes ago, wrathoftheturkey said:

http://pcpartpicker.com/list/y3Cb2R if you can go ten bucks over something like this is a better long term investment, since you can upgrade to a 6700k or 6500 when you have more money instead of investing in yet another architecture

pentium gonna be a downgrade. no reason to get it. although if he DOES want to upgrade CPU in the future, then skylake/kabylake would be the way to go for sure.

[Zyndo]

Just now, wrathoftheturkey said:

Depends. In heavily single-threaded games the Pentium should do better.

not really, most of those kinds of games will also still be able to use more than 2 cores... and in games that want a quad core will simply not function at all.

 

as far as single threded performance, the pentiums are certainly designed much better and are much newer architecture, but the G4400 also runs at a much slower frequency than the AMD boost clock, which will ruin major any advantage you could hope to see by going to a new chip.

 

 

Again, I'm not saying skylake is bad, or even that a Pentium G4400 is a bad budget chip... I'm just saying that his current setup is going to be better for gaming, so there is no good reason to spend money to switch. he could just pocket the money now and come back in a year or so when he has more money to invest again, he can then go Kaby i3/i5 or Zen (or whatever else AMD has out at that time).

 

 

[Armakar]

For video editing and rendering I guess the AMD will  do ( upgrading to intel for that wouldn't accomplish much anyway ), so i'd just get a beefier graphics card. If your budget is $300, maybe a 1060?