Solved looking to upgrade pc

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I want to upgrade my motherboard and CPU not sure what to get, recently upgraded ram and GPU
I play games like ARK: survival evolved, Arma 3, Overwatch, Fallout 4
I have trouble running some games with even low graphics currently (get around 20 constant frames on medium-low settings for Arma and Ark)

currently have:
Gigabyte GA-970A-D3
Microsoft Windows 10 Home
AMD FX(tm)-6300 Six-Core Processor, 3500 Mhz
24GB RAM(DDR3)
Nvidia GTX 960
2 hard drives 1 ssd

 

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Hello

Hopefully some more of our members will chime in soon. Do you know the speed of your ram?

@Evan Omo

 

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vger said:

Hello

Hopefully some more of our members will chime in soon. Do you know the speed of your ram?

@Evan Omo

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i have no idea. im looking into an I5 but i'd need to get a new motherboard and if i get a new motherboard i need new ram sticks i think?

 

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Hi zack, Welcome to PCHF!

If you are looking to upgrade your CPU, motherboard and RAM, do you have a preference with getting a new AMD or Intel CPU?

 

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Evan Omo said:

Hi zack, Welcome to PCHF!

If you are looking to upgrade your CPU, motherboard and RAM, do you have a preference with getting a new AMD or Intel CPU?

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intel i suppose

 

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I would get these parts:

Motherboard: ASRock Z270 Extreme 4 LGA 1151 Intel Z270 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.1 USB 3.0 ATX Motherboard.

RAM: G.SKILL TridentZ Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 3600 (PC4 28800) Intel Z170 Platform Desktop Memory Model F4-3600C16D-16GTZ.

CPU: Intel Core i7-7700K Kaby Lake Quad-Core 4.2 GHz LGA 1151 91W BX80677I77700K Desktop Processor.

 

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Evan Omo said:

I would get these parts:

Motherboard: ASRock Z270 Extreme 4 LGA 1151 Intel Z270 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.1 USB 3.0 ATX Motherboard.

RAM: G.SKILL TridentZ Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 3600 (PC4 28800) Intel Z170 Platform Desktop Memory Model F4-3600C16D-16GTZ.

CPU: Intel Core i7-7700K Kaby Lake Quad-Core 4.2 GHz LGA 1151 91W BX80677I77700K Desktop Processor.

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might get those, i was looking at these

Motherboard: http://www.canadacomputers.com/prod...item_id=087051&sid=14tug4kphbnlb53s8itu88l7f7

RAM: http://www.canadacomputers.com/prod...item_id=099478&sid=rlc9b6tbn0vcrodbo3atj86n02

CPU: http://www.canadacomputers.com/prod...item_id=086201&sid=m9aevgs4v8osogsv16jrfrd486
I also think I would need a cpu cooler. any recommendations for that?

 

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gonna be making my order on the 27th so any replies before that would be greatly appreciated

 

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Those parts will work fine but why are you ordering the i5-6600K when that CPU is already one generation behind? Wouldn't you want to get the i5-7600K instead?

 

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Evan Omo said:

Those parts will work fine but why are you ordering the i5-6600K when that CPU is already one generation behind? Wouldn't you want to get the i5-7600K instead?

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was trying to stay in a budget, but i think im going to go with what you recommended thanks for the help

 

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Yeah you are welcome.

Do you have any other questions or would you consider this thread resolved?

 

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no further questions thanks for the help

 

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You are welcome.