Upgrading my FX 6300

[enlly]

Greetings,

This is my cuarrent set - up

MoBo: M5A99X EVO R2.0
CPU: AMD 6300 Fx (no OC)
Cooler: AMD stock one
Ram: 8 Gb Kingstone Fury-X @ 1866
Video: R9 380 4 GB - Gigabite
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive
Power Supply: Thermaltake 600W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply
Case: Sentey Optimus + 2 Case fun

My question:

I want to upgrade my CPU, I can go to a 8350 / 8370 from AMD (wich will be better?)

Or go to Intel (i5 6600k), but I´ll have to change MoBo and go to DDR4

If I take first choise I can also get a SSD and 8+ GB of RAM and still expending less money.

USE: Mainly WoW, Overwatch, and some FPS that get my attention, but only main campaing (Doom and Battlefield 1 will be this year)

So, what would be your call on the matter?

Pd: sorry from grammar mistakes.

[Artorius]

If you can wait until the end of the year, Zen should be released at Q4 so it might be appealing. If you can't, don't waste money on a 8350. Just buy a i5 and be happy.

[enlly]

If you can wait until the end of the year, Zen should be released at Q4 so it might be appealing. If you can't, don't waste money on a 8350. Just buy a i5 and be happy.

Legion Pre-patch will hit on August first days, Will my FX- 6300 be good enought to hold Myth 20 ppl raiding?

Besides, I am argentinian and new Tech used to take at least 3 month more after beeing realesed on USA

[Artorius]

Legion Pre-patch will hit on August first days, Will my FX- 6300 be good enought to hold Myth 20 ppl raiding?

Besides, I am argentinian and new Tech used to take at least 3 month more after beeing realesed on USA

I don't have a clue. I don't raid since SoO and even back then I did it with an i5, I have no idea whatsoever.

If I had to guess I'd say that you will be able to raid, you shouldn't expect 60fps all the time but not even being able to raid sounds extreme.

[Blyght]

Hi,

My current setup is:

CPU: FX 6300 (OC @ 4.5Ghz)
MOBO: Gigabyte 990FX UD3 r4
Cooler: Corsair h100i
Ram: 8gb (2x4gb @ 1600)
Video: R9 270x (XFX Stock)
Storage: Samsung SSD 120gb + Seagate SSHD 1TB
PSU: Corsair CX 600

As you can see my setup is pretty similar to yours. I raid mostly Heroic but I get 40FPS +/- in a raid with anywhere from 16-30 people at "Good" settings as per in game. I recently had the chance to test out an i5 6600k at stock settings with a ASUS Z170-A and 16gb ram @ 2666Mhz, I was able to crank the settings up to ultra and still get 40+ fps (Using my other hardware i.e. R9 270x, Hard drives etc).

WoW is still CPU bound afaik and the performance difference was so great I went out and purchased an i5 only yesterday and I am now waiting for other parts to arrive and for the GTX 1070 to be more readily available.

When I say the performance was better, I don't just mean in WoW either, everything I do from multitasking to some light photoshop/video editing "felt" better and smoother, the only only other game I tested was Overwatch which I saw an increase of 30+ fps in. I am a novice when it comes to computer tech but I am a veteran consumer and my advice would be to invest in a better CPU such as the i5, you will see performance gains in everything you do over the older, much more dated AMD CPUs.