Need help with new setup

Motherboard - GA-990FXA-UD3 (rev. 4.0)
Processor: AMD FX™-8350
Memory: 8192MB RAM DDR3<-- Replacing-G.SKILL Sniper Gaming Series 32GB DDR3
GPU
SAPPHIRE NITRO Radeon R9 390<-- Replacing-MSI Radeon VII
Will I have bottlenecking with this setup?

CPU will be a huge bottleneck… time for a ryzen 2600 or 2700?

edit: if you don’t want to shell out $ for DDR4 ram with ryzen, could even get an old intel like 4770k or something…

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thx for the info…:+1::ok_hand:

I agree with the above - CPU will be a bottleneck, I would invest in a more modest 16GB RAM upgrade or save my money a couple months more to pay the extra $300 for a decent Mobo+RAM+Ryzen upgrade with that Radeon VII.

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As is, you have a fairly balanced system.

With the Vii, you will probably not see any meaningful improvement (like @BryanGoosling said).
I would recommend you upgrade CPU and mobo first, the GPU second. Contrary to BryanGoosling’s suggestion, I would go with a modern platform (Zen, Zen+ or CoffeeLake).

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What monitor?