Need some advice and help with pc upgrading (AMD)

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Adrian Drotar

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Hey guys, thanks for coming in!
So I'm planning to upgrade my current PC, and I need some help with it to make the best possibly out of it.
First, I'm a league of legends player I play it most of the time, but sometimes I just want to play other games, I don't have 1920x1080p ultra settings dreams , but just to play games without any lag.

So here is my current PC:
Processor: AMD-A6-5400K 3.6ghz
Motherboard: GA-F2A55M-DS2 (rev 1.2)
Power Supply: 100 W
RAM: 2x2GB 1333mhz
GPU: Radeon HD5450 1GB GDDR3
HDD: 1tb
Screen: HP L2245wg 1680x1050

I know it's obsolete, and I don't have huge expectations , I just want to play League of Legends without any skipping/lagging on 1680x1050, ( I'm currently playing on 1366x768, because so I do not lag ingame. )

The Budget transferred in dollars is : 150-180$
ps: I was thinking about buying an AMD A10-6800K , but I don't know if its better to buy a new cpu and use apu , or just to simple buy a better videocard.
 
Getting more and faster ram would help - 8gb of DDR3 1866mhz ram
The 5450 is a low end card - upgrade to something like the GTX750ti or the R7 360

The APU processor should be ok, I would get a new video card and more ram first. Get faster APU later if need be.
 
There's not much point in having a 5450 when you already have an iGPU that offers similar performance. Crossfire between those is generally horrible :(

I'm pretty sure the 5400k has significantly more SPUs than the 5450 to boot, but that DDR 1333 is slowing it down big time.

The most effective upgrade I'd do is a 6800k and at least 8 GB of 2133 or faster RAM, and ditch the 5450.

Alternatively you could look at cheap 1150 bundles which are ~$100 for CPU/MB and will give you higher per thread performance.
 
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