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3/1/2016 11:32:59 PM
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Need advice on future PC upgrade

I am planning to upgrade my PC next year with an SSD, a new graphics card, and possibly, a new CPU. My PC is currently used for Android related coding, web browsing, school related work, and some occasional gaming. In terms of graphics cards, I am looking for something that can effortlessly run modern games at 1080p 60fps at high (I hardly care about very high/ultra settings, nor do I care about 2k or 4k resolutions at this time). What do you recommend? Also, should I go with a current AMD or Nvidia card, or should I wait for the Nvidia Pascal cards and AMD Arctic Islands cards and choose either one of those? In terms of processors, should I stick to my FX-6300 or upgrade to a newer CPU? In terms of a new CPU, should I go with either a Haswell or Skylake i3 or i5, or should I go for one of AMD's upcoming Zen-based FX chips? What are your thoughts? By the way here is my current setup: -CPU: AMD FX-6300 -graphics card: MSI Twin Frozr GTX 750 TI 2GB -RAM: 8gb (2 sticks of 4gb-1600MHz RAM) -OS: Linux Mint 17.3 (I intend to stay on this OS because of its customizability and reliability, so don't ask me to switch to Windows.) -1TB 7200rpm hard drive
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  • Edited by Martiis: 3/2/2016 12:42:18 AM
    I would personally only upgrade the GPU at this point. While the FX series is 5 years old, it still does an okay job for the most part, and a simple overclock should alleviate any potential GPU bottlenecks should you decide to upgrade. With Zen and Kaby Lake just on the horizon it really doesn't make much sense to do a CPU upgrade yet in my opinion because upgrading to Haswell means you're still only going to be using DDR3, and upgrading Skylake means you have to pay the premium for the over priced chips. So I would just wait to see what happens to the market when Zen does finally launch later this year. That said, I do not feel like there is ever really a bad time to do a GPU upgrade because the performance gain will always be very noticeable, especially going from a $100 GPU to a $250 to $400 GPU. I would personally recommend the R9 390 or GTX 970 based on what you're looking for. I lean more toward the 390 for various reasons, but mainly because it will undoubtedly age better due to having double the vram with double the BUS, significantly more shaders, and 5.1tflops of performance vs 3.5tflops. Plus the fact that you're running Linux and the Mantle based API Vulkan has just been released should, could, and probably will make for a significant performance gap between the two if and when developers start porting games to Linux using Vulkan.

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