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Worth upgrading?

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As the title, I have a fx6300 at 4.1ghz with an artic cooler 13, GA 970A DS3, XFX850W and a HD7970. This is as high as it will go without resetting itself, so would you:
Get a new mobo and clock it higher and possibly get a next gen AMD cpu if they stay with AM3+.
Go for a Haswell I5 or I7, which obviously costs a lot more.
At present Im only at 1080p, but in the future who knows (higher rez or multi monitor but wouldnt be for a long time), so if I need to spend a lot would obviously like to future proof myself.
Or just stick with what I have.
Would I really notice much difference?
 
at 1080P, maybe.
However if you think of upgrade, why not try get hold of a 2500k or such for sale?
No need to buy the latest for a upgrade.
I bet a few would upgrade and those cpu´s still are top of the gaming arena.
 
what games you play ?

youll get a bit more performance from your gpu but it depends in what games you playing.

obvious choice would be haswell and a i5 4750k or 4770k depending on budget and plans down road.
 
The 6300 is a great CPU, but you're limited with the board, which isn't likely to get much more out of it. You won't be able to upgrade to an 8320 really. You could get a new board and cooler and push the 6300 to 4.5GHz+, but it's going to cost £80-£90 for the board.

The upgrade depends entirely on the games you play. The majority of games, combined with your GPU, will be well above 60fps at 1080p, so an upgrade would make no difference for those. If you play games that fall below 60fps (mostly just MMOs), an upgrade would help.
 
To be honest upgrading to a 2500k seems a bit pointless as they are 2 generations ago and still fetch quite a bit of money.
I play BF3, wow, maybe crysis 3 soon, dirt showdown, will get BF4 and loads of the cheap steam ones as well.
Ideally it would be nice to upgrade the motherboard then the processor but obviously cant do that if I want to go intel
 
The 6300 performs really well in these games anyway, the 2500K would not be an upgrade. If you can sell your board, an upgrade to the Asus 970 EVO R2.0 would let you overclock your CPU higher - maybe down the line get a 2nd hand 8320/50?
 
There's not much point in getting a 9370/9590 really, as the 8320/50 can overclock well on a decent board. People have been posting 4.8GHz overclocks lately.

If you look up CPU benchmarks for the games you mention, you'll see there's not a great deal between them. Older games will often have frame rates in the 100s combined with your 7970, making performance differences irrelevant, and newer games normally use the extra cores, levelling out performance. A lot of emphasis on here is placed on older CPU intensive lightly threaded games like WoW, but if you don't play these, it makes no difference to you.
 
I do play wow. But it doesn't seem too bad tbh. So I have probably just answered my own question. I just like the thought of being able to get a bit more out of what I have got
 
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