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I built a PC a little while ago, and have about $450 to throw in to upgrade some parts. I was thinking about just buying some GTX 970 card, but am thinking I may have a bottleneck elsewhere that I should take care of instead.
My main problems right now are low FPS while gaming, and not great graphics when designing (Photoshop, Illustrator, etc). What should I spend the $450 on?
My current build:
Any thoughts on my next priority? I just don't want to go too high on the graphics card and then need a better power supply or something. I'd rather build up slowly and figure it all out, an order in which I should upgrade.
Ideally, I would like to start streaming some gaming and continue designing.
My main problems right now are low FPS while gaming, and not great graphics when designing (Photoshop, Illustrator, etc). What should I spend the $450 on?
My current build:
- Kingston SSDNow V300 Series SV300S37A/120G 2.5" 120GB SATA III Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)
- MSI 760GM-P23 (FX) AM3+ AMD 760G + SB710 Micro ATX AMD Motherboard
- EVGA 100-W1-500-KR 500W ATX12V / EPS12V 80 PLUS Certified Active PFC 3 Year Warranty Power Supply Intel 4th Gen ...
- EVGA GeForce GT 640 02G-P4-2645-KR 2GB 128-Bit DDR3 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP Ready Video Card
- Fractal Design Define Mini Black Micro ATX Silent PC Computer Case w/ USB 3.0 support and 2 x 120mm Fractal Design ...
- AMD FX-6300 Vishera 6-Core 3.5GHz (4.1GHz Turbo) Socket AM3+ 95W FD6300WMHKBOX Desktop Processor
- Seagate Barracuda ST1000DM003 1TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive
- PNY XLR8 8GB 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model MD8192SD3-1600-X9
Any thoughts on my next priority? I just don't want to go too high on the graphics card and then need a better power supply or something. I'd rather build up slowly and figure it all out, an order in which I should upgrade.
Ideally, I would like to start streaming some gaming and continue designing.
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