Upgrading for solid 1080p recommendation

Currently, I decided to spend around 500$ to upgrade my current PC. I'm not looking for SLI just a decent upgrade to enjoy high/medium settings with respectable frame rates 40-60fps.

I have:

-AMD 6 core FX 6300 Black Edition running at 4.2Ghz, Ge Force 2GB GTX 750Ti SC@ 1150Mhz, Gigabyte GA-78Lmt mobo, 8 gb ddr 3 1600, 450w power supply, cooler master 212 evo cpu cooler.

Unfortunately, I have noticed most newer games are very much struggling to maintain even respectable playable frames at 1920x1080 and I have to significantly reduce resolution and graphics options.

I'm also thinking of switching to the Intel mobo but that would require new CPU and I'm not sure how affordable would it be to use Skylake even if it's a basic start for future in mind upgrades.

Appreciate the input.

@Sokol4ever: http://pcpartpicker.com/list/rT9hNG - if you can't wait for RX480.

+1.

And judging by rumors/leaks, RX 480 will be R9 390/X performance, so the Gigabyte R9 390 should perform equal or near RX 480 anyway...

ps: 29th June for the NDA lift.

Thank you, I will jump on the Mobo and CPU and I have no rush for the video card. If RX480 turns out cheaper for better performance I will pick it up.

Question, should I look into Skylake CPU and Mobo/Memory or wait?

Wait for RX 480.

Unless there is a significant price increase with the equal Skylake processor, mobo and ram combo... Why not go for skylake?

@Sokol4ever: It doesn't worth to spend like $70 more for a similar Skylake setup (i5 6500, H170, 8GB DDR4).

Since you already have 8GB 1600MHz DDR3 which you can reuse it in the new system, Haswell gets a big advantage.

Imagine that if you still want to spend more money, you can either put this $70 for better GPU or better CPU. You can go if you like for i5 4690K with Z97. (here you might want to add a better cooler if you start o/c).

@horgen: It's a 50$ difference, he could wait for RX480 then buy H170 MOBO with i5 6400 / 6500 - I guess it's a smarter pickup but he needs the RX480 to be at 200$ as they've promised, you know what last time happened to GTX1080 and their so called 600$ price tag...

That's the seller changing prices, not nVidia I think.

Your goals aren't super high or demanding so I would actually keep the processor and get the AMD 480 GPU when it comes out next week (rumored to give slightly higher than gtx 970 performance while costing 200 and using lower power consumption). Even the 150 dollar AMD 470 would be a good choice at all (is rumored to be not that much slower than the 480).

Save the rest of the money for a complete build overhaul when your ready to make the jump to 1440/4K in a couple of years (I wouldn't go all out right now since your CPU is decent, you have an aftermarket powersupply, and your still at 1080p).

You could go all out now but the results will be the exact same (very high settings 1080p regardless of what you choose to do so save for the big jump).

@Sokol4ever: Sapphire leaked some info about RX480:

RX480 Firestrike:

And this is Sapphire's R9 390:

As performance matters, it seems that R9 390 and RX480 are the same.

But RX480 will cost $30 less and will consume less power.

I think that next week RX480 will be in the stores.

@Coseniath: That does look very appealing, lets see how the price is, if it fits my budget. I'm also hearing very good results for RX 470.

@Coseniath: Don't forget temps should be lower too - well, at least that's what they've promised.

I think all non-reference coolers are fine. If I remember correctly (it was once in your sig) you had a non-reference R9 290. The temps should not touching 80C...

Like Sapphire's R9 390 (there wasn't any reference for R9 3xx series):

So I guess since the temps are already so low, there is no point mentioning them...

ps: Now that you mention it, maybe the non-reference RX480 might not touch even 70s...

@Coseniath: AMD were demonstrating some new GPU, probably a game entry one, I remember they've compared it to GTX750Ti, RX460? 470? There was a live demo

It would be nice if top GPUs like the RX480/490 will also have lower temps.

I think they compared something with 140w against something with 86w. It seems like GTX9?? vs RX460.

ps: I found the pic:

Although I highly doubt it was a GTX950. I don't know which card consumes so much (maybe GTX970?). GTX950 consumes around 100w, thats why many manufacturers managed to make it without extra 6pin PCIE molex (only 75w), by lowering the clock a bit.

In 5 days we will know :)