New Graphics Card?

[Rooney]

Looking for some advise right now. I have some money set aside and I would like to stick it into upgrading my PC a little bit.

 

My current PC - I bought it prebuilt because at the time I had no knowledge of building PCs or what to look for when buying, I just saw the good reviews and figured it'd be perfect to play simple games like Renegade, Age of Empires, and maybe a handful of newer titles.

However, I am becoming more and more into games that require more power from my PC that it just isn't able to put out (Ghost Recon Wildlands, Ark). I can play the games, but its on low-medium settings and I just can't justify spending money on these big name games and having Super Mario Brothers look crisper.. lol

 

I've been doing research, and I am pretty set on picking up the XFX Radeon RX 480 (4GB), however I am reading online that my processor (eight core AMD FX-8320) will bottleneck that graphics card?

I believe my PC currently has a RX 460.

 

Is the RX 480 a big improvement from my current RX 460? Is my processor really whats restricting my game play and not my graphics card?

Thanks in advance!

[Joetorp]

Check out this newsletter, I found it quite helpful.  http://newbcomputerbuild.com/gaming-pc-build-2017/best-march-2017-gaming-pc-build-under-600-1000-1500/

[Rooney]

I went ahead and bought the RX 480. Its a major improvement over what I was using before. It was a $200 well spent!

Edited April 6, 2017 by Rooney