upgrade or over clock fx6300

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wondering whether to upgrade or over clock my fx6300 or upgrade to another CPU but think i will need another mother board and Ram?

I currently need a new case so do i rebuild my PC with a better CPU cooler or start a new build with my PSU SSD and GPU?

I currently have a fx6300 with stock cooler
Gigabyte motherboard
8gb of avexir core red ram
GTX 780 TI
850 pro Samsung 500 GB SSD
750w PSU

Do i upgrade my cpu to something like a Ryzen 5 1600/1600x?
or shall i over clock my CPU?
I will play new shooters & RPGs etc and want to play well on 1080 played well a few years ago on games such a crysis 3.

thanks in advance
 
thank you for the replys. i broke my case and cannot turn the PC on so im a little unsure on what MOBO i have i just know its a gigabyte gaming one.

Will try get some pics or a model number off it tonight.

There was mention of upgrading my GPU but i did think the gtx780ti was ok and the bottle neck would be more the CPU and ram than the GPU?
 
orbitalwalsh said:
an upgrade wouldn't go a miss- every one loves new hardware and warranty lol.

by any chance was this an off the shelf bought PC ???
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nope i built it up about 3-4 years ago atleast and has had little love since really.

I cannot turn the PC so i cannot find out the motherboard. im currently online trying to match the photos i have to a gigabyte mother board haha
 
orbitalwalsh said:
Im guessing its the Rev 1.0 you've linked and not any of the other versions?
I think if you have Rev 3.0 or 4.0 you'll be able to use FX- 9590 listed above for £160 - costly for an older power hungry chip- but if you havent got £400 for mobo-ram and cpu might be worth a shout
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i think it is the Rev 1 yes. but to be honest ive just matched the pictures to what i have taken this morning i can't power on the system to double check.

i think a Ryzen might be the way to go.. but what combo do i go with?
 
orbitalwalsh said:
its the fact that he could gain min average 10fps in games - properly with his Current card- specially in more CPU bound games were it could rise- GPU upgrades always good but its the fact he could upgrade and still lose Frames because of the CPU and nothing more .
I can see the point of getting a full upgrade at once , but then it comes to - is it best to wait extra ** months for volta which on paper should be a better from then Pascal was over maxwell. Then again you might get a cracking deal on a second hand 1080 Ti haha .
always the way with tech- always something better coming out later . In thoery you should be able to get gains with cpu upgrade without having to touch the GPU.
Upgrading just the GPU now and you won't get the full gains you payed for . Getting full system upgrade gets your everything... but at a cost!

have a look at your steam library gaming time and work out for yourself gaming to cost ratio :)

ryzen is here to stay for a good while at least :)

also see how much your old system could fetch ? heck you might be able to clean sweep as suggested above earlier :D
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i dont think i game enough to warrant a full system refresh and to be honest i dont have a good enough monitor to even go above 1080.

i think i may OC the 6300. but how well will the board do with a OC? will i need a CPU cooler if so which is best? do i go air or water cooled?
 
orbitalwalsh said:
next generation for Nvidia graphics cards. will be out 2018, but their not exactly in any pressure to release it sooner rather then later and can still milk pascal good :)
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ah i see, maybe the way to go then i think. im assuming my 780ti wont play anything above 1080?
 
orbitalwalsh said:
Im guessing its the Rev 1.0 you've linked and not any of the other versions?
I think if you have Rev 3.0 or 4.0 you'll be able to use FX- 9590 listed above for £160 - costly for an older power hungry chip- but if you havent got £400 for mobo-ram and cpu might be worth a shout
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just found out its the rev3
will it be ok for over clocking? what CPU cooler would you suggest?
 
orbitalwalsh said:
overclocking your current cpu? yeah will be fine ! was looking at your rev to see if you could install the FX 9590 cpu - if you could find a cheap one on ebay to install for some extra cores and speed.

havent used those chips so wouldn't want to spec to over or two under

but seems a good price and can mount across a lot of CPU sockets if your case can handle 240mm rad

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/id-c...-in-one-cpu-water-cooler-240mm-hs-008-id.html
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im actually going to need a new case. so will need to be able to fit an ATX and this nice and cheap any recommendations?
 
was looking at this.. not overclockers but can't find much on here to match it price wise
CIT Dark Star Gaming Case at 26 quid
 
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