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http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/49?vs=1197
and FX is a dead platform, no one should be "upgrading" to that platform, nothing is going to come out of it in future upgrades.
http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/1289?vs=1544
I can foresee some scenarios where upgrading to an outdated platform could make sense.
Such as if the person upgrading can't afford to build with all new parts and finds good deals on used parts from a platform that's say one to three generations back. It may not be from the newest generation, or may not be the newest technology, but it might still give reasonably good performance and be able to complete tasks or run programs at a reasonable speed. The i5 2500K, i7 2600K, i5 3570K and i7 3770K are still quite relevant to today's programs, and they're from 2011-2012. The Core i7 3820 (2012) and 3930K (2011) are one platform back from X99, but they're no slouches in their own rights'. Though at this point it would probably make more sense to go with Ivy Bridge processors if building or upgrading on LGA1155. Building an X79 rig with used parts
could make sense as the boards are often cheaper than current X99 boards, though the CPU's haven't exactly gotten much cheaper yet. I've got a Phenom II X4 rig still running that was built nearly six years ago now, probably need to upgrade it at some point (some time after Zen launches most likely), but it's meeting the needs for what it does at the moment.
Then there's Z87/Z97 (LGA1150) platform, which is not exactly old, and one wouldn't necessarily take a noticeable performance hit from choosing either of them over Z170 (LGA1151). At least not at the moment anyway, barring some future processors for the LGA1151 socket that perform amazingly well compared to the 4670K/4690K and 4770K/4790K.
sorry 380x. and i play with a 1920 x 1080 hd monitor. right now i can get about 51FPS ave on witcher 3 with Ultra (hairworks off & shaddow, water, grass density high). My R9 380x is at 100% when playing and my cpu is at 73%, doesnt that mean my GPU is bottlenecking?
That likely means your GPU is being bottlenecked by your CPU, if it's anything like what I saw with my game testing. I was on a Q6600 overclocked to 3.4GHz with 8GB of DDR2 RAM and a GTX 680 (2GB card) and only getting 20-50 FPS at a 1080p resolution with detail settings on low in BF4. Now, I put that same GTX 680 into a system with a 4690K (stock) and 8GB of DDR3 RAM (1600MHz) and was able to get 70-100+ FPS with detail settings on high in BF4. With my Q6600 at the stock 2.4GHz the game was completely unplayable and I was only getting 15-30 FPS with the detail settings on low.