Upgrade Route?

russ807 · 20 Feb 2019 at 10:29

Hi looking for some advice please...
I am currently running 6300 fx with 8gb ram and 1050 2gb graphics im looking to upgrade but have to do it one step now and the second in 6 months due to budget.
What would give me the best performance gain over the next 6 months whilst i save to finish the upgrade?
Have been looking at the nvidia 1060 gtx 6gb or rx 580 as the gpu and ryzen 5 2600 as the cpu upgrade.
Budget is about £250 for gpu and £300 for cpu, motherboard and ram.

Thanks in advance.

orbitalwalsh · 20 Feb 2019 at 11:05

russ807 said:
Hi looking for some advice please...
I am currently running 6300 fx with 8gb ram and 1050 2gb graphics im looking to upgrade but have to do it one step now and the second in 6 months due to budget.
What would give me the best performance gain over the next 6 months whilst i save to finish the upgrade?
Have been looking at the nvidia 1060 gtx 6gb or rx 580 as the gpu and ryzen 5 2600 as the cpu upgrade.
Budget is about £250 for gpu and £300 for cpu, motherboard and ram.

Thanks in advance.

GTX 1660Ti friday. performance of gtx 1070/Vega 6 whilst using a lot less power, specially over RX 580 and Vega 56!

If you can hold off till June/July to see how Ryzen 3000 prices up or any drop in pricing from Ryzen 2000 series ( look now and you can get 8 core ryzen 1700 for the price of ryzen 2600x etc)

but Yes, that FX 6300 will hold back the GTX 1660ti /RX 580 by 10 odd FPS, but would be a nice jump in performance when you add the CPU/Mobo upgrade to it !

russ807 · 20 Feb 2019 at 11:21

ok thanks I will hold out and see about the 1660ti, if the 6300 is only going to hold back the gpu by apx 10fps I think gpu first is the way to go I was concerned the 6300 would hamper the new gpu a lot more than that.

orbitalwalsh · 20 Feb 2019 at 16:21

russ807 said:
ok thanks I will hold out and see about the 1660ti, if the 6300 is only going to hold back the gpu by apx 10fps I think gpu first is the way to go I was concerned the 6300 would hamper the new gpu a lot more than that.

Rough guess, might be a bit more, but you'll still be pushing high frame rates , not lower .
Just when you do upgrade CPU, you'll be happy enough with the extra 15% on top

Plenty of videos of ryzen Vs FX chips on high end cards to show the difference, specially at 1080p