Which one 1st ? AMD Card or AM4 Motherboard ?

[MrNeil]

What do you think would be best to buy 1st ? With £300 so far and with AMD looking promising i wondering if buying a new card would be a better option than getting a new motherboard and DDR4 memory or the other way round .
Yes i am willing to stick with AMD over Intel !
Here is my specs i have now :

AMD FX-6300
Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3P
Kingston 240GB HyperX (Windows 10 installed)
8gig HyperX Fury Black Series
PowerColor HD 7950 PCS+ Edition
Evga 750 B2

Cheers
Neil

[kalniel]

Wait and see what the results are before deciding I guess.

[DanceswithUnix]

Tricky one, your CPU and graphics card are both still reasonable.

If we can expect 390(X) performance from Polaris then you are looking at something like this: http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/1033?vs=1056

CPU may not be quite as good an upgrade in everyday terms, but personally I was considering getting an AM4 motherboard when they come out along with a cheap APU because I have a spare Windows 8 license I never used so for me wasting £40 on an APU is better than waiting for Zen to come out and having to pay £80 for an OEM Windows license because the free upgrade is over and I don't see me wanting 8 on a machine these days.

But unless you have a real life getting in the way stupidity like my spare Win 8 license, I would just wait and see.

[jamiehard1989]

Dont upgrade yet, wait till it released and have you overclocked your cpu and gpu yet


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[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Your system seems quite well balanced - I would try overclocking that CPU a bit too. I would also suspect you are more GPU limited in many games too - a mate upgraded from a GTX650TI Boost 2GB to an R9 390 8GB with an overclocked FX6300 and saw a good improvement in games like ARK.

[deejayburnout]

You can get that FX chip to 4.3 easily, pushing higher if you have good cooling.

GPU is fine also. Plenty life left in it.

If i was backed unto a corner, a new GPU would be the item for me with what you have.

[jamiehard1989]

You can get that FX chip to 4.3 easily, pushing higher if you have good cooling.

GPU is fine also. Plenty life left in it.

If i was backed unto a corner, a new GPU would be the item for me with what you have.

I had the same setup when i 1st build my pc, could play most games @ high-ultra, but i did have the cpu @4.7 and the 7950 @1150/1500


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