Budget & currency?

What games do you play?

What case do you have?

Xiggy wrote Budget & currency?

What games do you play?

What case do you have?

Currency is USD and dont really have a budget as of right now but maybe like $400ish dollars in upgrades.

Ive been playing Far Cry 3, Planetside 2, CSGO, and Borderlands: The pre-sequel, but i plan on buying GTA 5 when it comes out.

And I have this case: [ Register or Signin to view external links. ]

You could grab a 970 and an SSD, if you don't already have one. Or, you could upgrade to Intel, hold on to that 760 for now and upgrade it later.

Sanctyy wrote You could grab a 970 and an SSD, if you don't already have one. Or, you could upgrade to Intel, hold on to that 760 for now and upgrade it later.

what cpu would you recommend I go for if I go the intel way?

Depends. You could grab a motherboard with SLI support for around $120 and a 4690k for around $250. If you're not going to overclock though, the 4690k would be a waste and you could get something like a Xeon E3-1231 V3 instead. However, if you wanted to OC and kept the 4690k, you'd want to add a decent cooler for overclocking, which is going to cost more than $30.

Sanctyy wrote Depends. You could grab a motherboard with SLI support for around $120 and a 4690k for around $250. If you're not going to overclock though, the 4690k would be a waste and you could get something like a Xeon E3-1231 V3 instead. However, if you wanted to OC and kept the 4690k, you'd want to add a decent cooler for overclocking, which is going to cost more than $30.

What motherboard would you recommend to go with either one of those CPUs?

Geb wrote

Sanctyy wrote Depends. You could grab a motherboard with SLI support for around $120 and a 4690k for around $250. If you're not going to overclock though, the 4690k would be a waste and you could get something like a Xeon E3-1231 V3 instead. However, if you wanted to OC and kept the 4690k, you'd want to add a decent cooler for overclocking, which is going to cost more than $30.

What motherboard would you recommend to go with either one of those CPUs?

Well if you was going to overclock a z97 motherboard within your budget and if you weren't a h97 motherboard most likely.

MSI Z97S Krait. SLI support, overclockability, m.2 support and it's only like $110 or so. If you don't need any of these features, any cheap H97 board will do.

You could grab the Z97 Krait and a 4690k for about $360, if you want to be able to overclock. If you're not overclocking, you could grab a Xeon for the same price, or save $60 and get an i5-4460. If you did get a 4460, you could use the remaining upgrade budget for an SSD.

There's a few things you could do. It depends on whether you would prefer a CPU or GPU upgrade right now, whether or not you will overclock, whether or not you want SLI support, etc.