Rebuild my PC for BF4

[G80FTW]

He's probably busy reading the replies going back and forth

He probably is.

I can also say this, when I built my current PC I upgraded the entire platform before the graphics card. Then come to find out my Athlon X2 Brisbane was actually bottlenecking my 8800GTS oddly enough and just by upgrading the CPU/RAM/Mobo I saw a good boost in all my games.

CPU matters in ALL games. To a different degree, but CPU bottlenecks can still exist and will certainly exist with a C2Q.

I just think its rather pointless to drop $500+ on a graphics card when you wont be getting near all the performance from it with that platform...

If he really wants to stay with that platform for another year or so, which I hope not, hes better off getting something like a 670 or 660 as his CPU will probably even bottleneck those but at least they are much cheaper.

 

[PCunicorn]

Being he has a $1300 budget he can build a whole new PC. And OP hasn't been active since 12/3, so this might all be for nothing...

 

[G80FTW]

Being he has a $1300 budget he can build a whole new PC. And OP hasn't been active since 12/3, so this might all be for nothing...

Probably. I spent $1300 on my PC and I dont regret it one bit. Actually still paying for it

I would have never been happy sticking with any of my older platforms and just popping in a new GPU.

 

[Okedokey]

Yep, you said it. So did I... in the very first post of this thread.

Anyway, I would drop in another $300 over an SSD, 4GB old RAM and GPU upgrade and buy an entire system as PCUnicorn points out. I wouldn't buy the 290X though, since for $100 less you can get the normal 290. The build draft I did was based on a lot of deals though, not sure how many of those that are still active.

Oh and I didn't mean pre-rendered like that. I see how that's a wrong way to use it, but English is not my first language I meant in the way that there are no surprises, all the events that are going to happen in that 60 second run has been planned out ahead. Not like multiplayer, where it's based on what players do and needs instantaneous attention when it happens.
Sure it's a stress test, but I wouldn't call it a real world scenario. Multiplayer is where that's at. And you can get consistent benches in multiplayer, and some reviewers do do that, and they claim better performance from RAM. It just takes a lot longer to get the data.

Yeah id agree with that.