Better CPU or GPU?

[linker357]

So christmas is coming up, and with my savings I've been debating whether I should buy a better CPU or GPU, my current CPU is an i5 4670k and GPU an Nvidia GTX 760. What do you think and what are your suggestions?

[Amy Rose]

Depends on what you want to do, if your games run fine in Dolphin anyway then go ahead with the GPU, if you want your Dolphin games to run a bit faster, get a better CPU.

[Anti-Ultimate]

GPU

and get something like a R9 390x

[linker357]

Yes they run perfectly fine (100% speed all of the time) but I'm concerned about if my pc might hang a bit with later builds

[linker357]

The R9 390x goes a little bit out of my budget

[Garteal]

I certainly wouldn't invest into a new CPU. If you're playing PC games and have trouble running games at your preferred settings then upgrade the GPU, if not, save up and wait until the next line-up arrives.

[ENAI]

The GTX 760 is still a quite capable GPU, so I don't see a huge need to upgrade it. The most logical next step would be something like a GTX 970 (or a 390X) but even that shouldn't be a necessary upgrade if you game at 1080p. A new CPU is even more unnecessary if you already get 100% on Dolphin, which is also more demanding than any native pc game at the moment. If I were you, I'd wait until next April when nVidia most likely releases their new GPU line-up, and buy one of them.

[degasus]

(11-20-2015, 12:48 AM)linker357 Wrote: ... i5 4670k ... GTX 760 ...

I'd invest my next money in games instead ...

But for your questions, skylake are about 15% faster per clock than your haswell, but you already have one of the fastest one. Bigger GPUs allow you play at higher resolutions, so do you have a 4k monitor?

(11-20-2015, 12:48 AM)linker357 Wrote: with later builds

Nobody does know what will happen next, so maybe there is no need to buy newer hardware at all? Maybe you'll need a newer GPU generation for supporting the more accurate way, or whatever .... To be honest, I don't see such a change soon.

[tuanming]

Just overclock if you encounter low fps with your current CPU. Your GPU is already fast enough for 4x and perhaps even 6x res. Save your money for something else.

[yl-smash]

Waste of money to buy new hardware when yours is perfectly capable, unless you plan to do 4k or you play other intense pc games.