Looking for advice on GPU

[Whimsly]

Im looking to spend around no more then $300(US) on a video card. My cpu is a AMD FX 6300 and I have a 550W Seasonic PSU. I mostly play games like Starcraft 2, gta v and World of Tanks.

[DocSwag]

What GPU do you have right now?

[Whimsly]

17 minutes ago, valdyrgramr said:

I honestly would use some of that budget to upgrade the CPU/Motherboard.  The 6300 isn't terrible, but a 300 buck GPU will most likely be bottlenecked by an FX CPU.  You won't notice it at first around 280/280x level too much, but going from there you will hit bottleneck city.  Unless, you'd rather just put all that 300 towards the GPU.  

I mean there's always the https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814137094&nm_mc=AFC-C8Junction&cm_mmc=AFC-C8Junction-PCPartPicker, LLC-_-na-_-na-_-na&cm_sp=&AID=10446076&PID=3938566&SID= 1060 6gb.  I'd buy this quickly cuz 1060s/480s/580s are going up in price due to forms of crypto currency mining.  

I'd love to upgrade the CPU but I would rather upgrade the GPU first so that I at least have a working gaming pc. Even if it's bottleneck for a few weeks.

[Whimsly]

On 7/4/2017 at 10:55 AM, valdyrgramr said:

Get the 1060 then that I linked.  Or, a used 980ti[closer to 1070 performance] maybe or an r9 fury.  I got an open box fury for 232.  You can probably find one around or 1-2 bucks over your budget on ebay.  A fury is faster than the 1060, gets better with OCing, and also uses HBM over GDDR5 making the memory performance so much better on the fury.  The problem with the newer/used market at the moment is crypto currency miners buying up all the cards.  I did see a sapphire r9 fury on ebay for 300+like 2-3 bucks shipping on ebay.  I'd quickly take advantage of that.

I went with a 1060 and going to upgrade my CPU to a newer one. Any budget friendly suggestions?

 

[saibalroop]

Get a brand new reference 1060 from Nvidia. It is cheaper

[Whimsly]

2 minutes ago, saibalroop said:

Get a brand new reference 1060 from Nvidia. It is cheaper

Planned on it due to my case being a mATX

[MegetaSN]

1 hour ago, Whimsly said:

I went with a 1060 and going to upgrade my CPU to a newer one. Any budget friendly suggestions?

 

Depends on your budget. I'd say get an i5 or R5 if you can get one. I'm leaning towards the R5. If you can't get one, I think you're better off saving some money than buying something like an i3 or a G4560. The Ryzen 3 could also be something to consider buying given that they launch it at a good price

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2 hours ago, MegetaSN said:

Depends on your budget. I'd say get an i5 or R5 if you can get one. I'm leaning towards the R5. If you can't get one, I think you're better off saving some money than buying something like an i3 or a G4560. The Ryzen 3 could also be something to consider buying given that they launch it at a good price

For what games I do play, do I need to switch to a ryzen? Gtav and StarCraft 2 isn't that demanding. Or could I get away with a higher end am3+ CPU?

[MegetaSN]

16 hours ago, Whimsly said:

For what games I do play, do I need to switch to a ryzen? Gtav and StarCraft 2 isn't that demanding. Or could I get away with a higher end am3+ CPU?

Enough for the games you mentioned. GTA 5 pulls a hell lot more frames if you have a better CPU on high end cards but it's still very playable on your CPU. The future is also something to consider if you plan to buy new games and play them. Newer games are getting CPU heavy. Games are starting to utilize more cores and threads but IPC still matters since the load isn't parallel across the cores. The main difference maker while switching to a higher end AM3+ CPU will be the clock speeds. I'd say keep the CPU since the games you're playing will run well and if you plan to play newer games at great framerates and take the future into account, save the money instead of getting another AM3+ CPU.