crossfire/cpu upgrade advice/suggestions needed

[potatochips5]

Hi 🙂, i'm trying to figure out which computer parts i should upgrade too get the most performence out of my money, and i figured you guys might be able to help me out? 😀

My current system :
Case : Iw-win MANA white (atx) medium
dvd writer :Asus dvd writer 241FST
Powersupply :Cooler master G650M
Motherboard:Gigabite 9070A-UD3 (rev 1.0)
Ram : Corsair vengance 4Gx2 DDR3 Dual (1600MHz, 9-9-9-24, 1.5V)
processor : AMD FX 6100.
Graphics card: AMD R9 270X
Hard Drive1 : SSD 120 Gig (sandisk "extreme" baught at a store a almost 2 years ago)
Hard Drive 2 : SSDHD 1 TB.

So i've been slowly building this computer over a year now, and right now its good for 1080P at medium/high settings for games.

So my current toughts is too Get a annother R9 270x and crossfire, but my current motherboard doesen't support it , so i was thinking of getting a new motherboard with the right tools, And with that a new CPU . eighter amd or intel. maybe upgrading the RAM aswell. so thats my plan.
Anyways.. what do you guys think would be the best to upgrade at this point? 🙂 (at an reasonable price)
(using this computer for gaming only)
Really appirciate you're feedback on this!

cheers 🙂

-Thomas

 

[Ketchup]

Welcome to the forums potatochips5! Your post would be a good fit in General Hardware, so if you don't get many replies you could ask a mod, such as mfenn, to move it for you. Now, on to the essentials:

Powersupply :Cooler master G650M
Motherboard:Gigabite 9070A-UD3 (rev 1.0)
Ram : Corsair vengance 4Gx2 DDR3 Dual (1600MHz, 9-9-9-24, 1.5V)
processor : AMD FX 6100.
Graphics card: AMD R9 270X
Hard Drive1 : SSD 120 Gig (sandisk "extreme" baught at a store a almost 2 years ago)

This is a fairly well-balanced system just looking at the core components.

Which to me says either hang on to what you got for a while longer or tell the core components goodbye, at least CPU and motherboard.

If you can swing it, get an I5, a crossfire board, and another 270.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116896 for $200

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128711 for $133

270x for about $200

So that path would run you ~$530 (without being tweaked), and would do you pretty well, assuming the games you are looking to boost do well with Crossfire.

 

[potatochips5]

Thanks for the feedback ketchup79 and thanks!

i've been looking around today, and have indeed desided to go with the motherboard+cpu upgrade, then maybe cross fire later down the road

if anyone reading this have any suggestions or ideas for the setup, please do feel free to help🙂 appriciate it!