Gaming computer specs questions

101374 · 2013-07-27 01:12:44

I'm considering upgrading my PC, but because I'm always traveling away from home because of work and school I'm hesitating about getting a whole new system. My current setup is: Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 (3.00Ghz) 4Gb RAM (Kingston P2-6400 400hz) Geforce GTX 570 1280 ram. The computer is running Windows 7 32bit and WinXP on separate hard drive. As you can see, its an outdated system. The last upgrade was for the graphics card which I got about two years ago. I only use this PC to play games, the Win7 partition has BF3 only installed on it and CoD BlackOps II and will home the BF4 once its out. WinXP has couple few other games. My motherboard (intel DP35DP) limits my processor upgrade options. If available (which I highly doubt), I can upgrade to a Core 2 Quad processor and Xeon 3000 Sequence processor. The ram, I can upgrade to DDR2 800 and boost it up to 8 gb (along with Win7 upgrade to 64bit). I'm not sure about the ram availability, but I hope its not as difficult as the processor. The easiest upgrade (in terms of availability) is the graphics card. I'm hesitating between the GTX 680, 780, and 690. My question now... considering that I'm only using the computer for gaming and i'm only playing one game and have the least possible tasks running in the background... will I need a processor upgrade? Or will my current processor do and all I need is just a better graphics cards to handle the new games? I've been unable to enjoy BF3 with highest graphics settings and I had to lower resolution and disable some settings for things to be acceptable... but still does not feel as smooth as normal gameplay. What about the ram? do I really need more than 4gig? I also considered getting a new setup: i7 3940k (with Asus P9 mobo) or i7 4770 (MSI Z87-G45 mobo) 16 gig ddr3 kingston hyperX ram) but this setup would cost almost the same price as the display card (the GTX 780 and 690). Someone just told me that getting the new setup and sticking to my current display card might be better than getting a new display card and sticking to my current system. So there you got my confusion... tell me your opinion please. I hope I could hear from you very soon. Thanks in advance.

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#51 LordEC911

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http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/cpus/2012/05/01/intel-core-i5-3570k-cpu-review/6
Of course...
Pushing a GPU to it's limits, vs not pushing it to it's limit IS a bottleneck.AMD655

Now do the same thing with real settings....

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[QUOTE="AMD655"]
http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/cpus/2012/05/01/intel-core-i5-3570k-cpu-review/6
Of course...
Pushing a GPU to it's limits, vs not pushing it to it's limit IS a bottleneck.LordEC911

Now do the same thing with real settings....

What are you talking about??

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#53 LordEC911

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What are you talking about??AMD655

Here I'll even help you... http://anandtech.com/show/6985/choosing-a-gaming-cpu-at-1440p-adding-in-haswell-/5

Notice how close everything is... with the exception of Civ5 which is pretty CPU dependant and the difference is still pretty minimal, right around the margin of error.

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[QUOTE="AMD655"]What are you talking about??LordEC911

Here I'll even help you... http://anandtech.com/show/6985/choosing-a-gaming-cpu-at-1440p-adding-in-haswell-/5

Notice how close everything is... with the exception of Civ5 which is pretty CPU dependant and the difference is still pretty minimal, right around the margin of error.

That is called GPU limited.

Get a brain please.

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