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Hello, I'm having a bit of trouble figuring out what needs to be upgraded to run gears of war 4,  world of Warcraft on ultra,  and any other game my heart desires.

 Currently I have a Amd Fx-6200 processor,  two amd radeon hd 7770 (crossfired)  and 8 gigs of ram.  My power supply is a corsair cx 750 and I have an asus m5a97 r2.0 motherboard. Packed nicely with lots of space inside a cooler master cm Stryker. 

I believe that 8 gigs of ram should be enough,  but I'm unsure weather my cpu needs an upgrade.  Also more than positive that my GPU need to replaced due to the 1gb of VRAM. Please help me figure/understand why,  what needs to be replaced. 

 

Edit: budget is around $200 cad.  Could spend a little more if the difference was worth wild. 

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Start with a new GPU. I know next to nothing about which GPU, so maybe someone can suggest one. As for the rest of your rig, um... that is a hard one. You could go for a FX-8350. But that isn't much of an upgrade from an FX-6200. Probably best if you save up money to buy a completely new motherboard and CPU. Also adding an SSD would be a good idea.

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Without knowing budget and whatnot...I say upgrade mobo/cpu (to Intel if that's an option) and the gpu.

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2 hours ago, BenoitWW said:

GPU definitely. scrap the 2 7770s and get a GTX1050 ti. or if you bat for the red team, a rx 460. 

 

some other good upgrades would be SSD, and then after that CPU/MBD/RAM

Iv actually manage to increase my budget to afford a rx 470, but I'm stuck between getting the 4gb or the 8gb. Not sure if the extra 4gb of VRAM is worth the 60 bucks.  Any input? 

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On 12/17/2016 at 0:19 AM, Nagol6000 said:

Iv actually manage to increase my budget to afford a rx 470, but I'm stuck between getting the 4gb or the 8gb. Not sure if the extra 4gb of VRAM is worth the 60 bucks.  Any input? 

depends on resolution, frames desired etc..

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