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| Thread ID: 124765 | 2012-05-18 00:43:00 | Any one know any good online sites? | PC builder (15482) | Press F1 |
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| 1276042 | 2012-05-21 03:45:00 | Definitely the GPU will be what's holding you back. Can pick up a cheap 6950 / 6970 for not much these days. That ought to be the quickest / easiest / best bang-for-buck upgrade :) | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1276043 | 2012-05-21 04:23:00 | The GPU was my first thought also, but the CPU is a bit weak and could be a factor. I don't play that game myself so I don't know what it needs. My ex flatmate had an athlon 5200+ dualcore or something like that and gamed happily up until getting a copy of Rage which was totally unplayable with framerates in the single digits, basically it was more like a slideshow than a game. He got lucky and found a Phenom II X3 cheap on trademe and that fixed the issue completely. You really need to research the game requirements and look at come CPU / GPU benchmarks and go from there. |
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| 1276044 | 2012-05-21 07:23:00 | Heres some more info | PC builder (15482) | ||
| 1276045 | 2012-05-21 07:34:00 | Yeah the CPU will be a hindrance coz BF3 is quite intense on it, however for most games, I'd still suggest your GPU is the bottleneck that needs upgrading first. | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1276046 | 2012-05-21 07:53:00 | OK | PC builder (15482) | ||
| 1276047 | 2012-05-21 08:16:00 | GPU is definatly what needs upgrading first... You can have a rediculiously good CPU but it wont help you in the least. my gpu (7950) goes at full 'throttle' when playing bf3 and it is high end, My semi heigh end cpu's temp hardly raises a degree. The experience idex this is balony, it is not setup for gaming rigs and just about any gpu will run microsoft word smooth :P. Get the demo version of Heaven benchmark (unigine.com) Set everythign to max, my gpu runs bf3 at just over 60fps and gets an avg of 43.9 in the benchmark on full settings. | Slankydudl (16687) | ||
| 1276048 | 2012-05-21 10:06:00 | OK so for this game your CPU is worse than your graphics card but both are holding you back. A bit depends on what your monitor is and it's native resolution. What to upgrade to is really up to you and your budget, your board could probably take a phenom II X4 and get you playable and you could add a graphics card if it's still too slow, a GTX560ti would be a good option. Or you could go all out and go for a MB / CPU / RAM /Video upgrade - any i5 or even i3 would do it. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1276049 | 2012-05-22 02:49:00 | thanks for all the feedback, i will upgrade my CPU and motherboard first | PC builder (15482) | ||
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