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Yeah the 3350p is the lowest I would go. It should be alright. The 3630QM in my Y400 laptop gives me playable frame-rates in the mid 40's and it has about the same clock frequency as the 3350P. Performance should be comparable.

Also, I want to reiterate that I'm not down talking the Phenom because I think it's a great CPU for the money and suggest it often on these forums for budget builds. It's just in this one particular case and game, AMD CPUs aren't the tool for the job.
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There are definitely a few things to consider here. I play Planetside 2 daily and so do many of my friends.

Planetside 2 is by far the most CPU intensive game I've encountered. There can literally be hundreds of people and explosions crammed into a very small area at any given time. This means that while some lower end CPUs will give you decent performance some of the time, during big battles they totally choke.

My best friend's rig was a Phenom II x4 that we overclocked to 3.9GHz. It still dropped into the low 20's during big battles to the point of being unplayable. It doesn't matter what settings you are playing on.

So the short answer is no, it won't play Planetside 2. At least not in any big battles (most of them are).

My friend upgraded to an FX-8350 and while it's better, it still has frame drops into the low 30's very regularly.

The only way to get smooth frame rates is to go with an Intel i5. Yeah the AMD chip is way slower.


Graphically, Planetside is pretty light so you'll be fine with the 7770 for mediumish settings.

 
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i somewhat agree with you. I can run planetside on medium settings with my rig because its not optimized for amd cpu's. However my friend with a 3rd gen i7 and 560m gpu gets much worse performance despite having a better cpu.

The amd cpu you chose is slower then the i5, because its cheaper, older, and single threaded performance isnt as good. However for a lot of applications it will not be bad at all, and for a budget build yours looks good. I dont play planetside, i dont like it and i think that it isnt programmed very well, but thats just me..
 
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That's interesting because my 2500K and my friends 3770K run it very well at 55+ FPS all the time. We also have ours overclocked to 4.6 and 4.2 respectively though.

Sorry to hear that you don't like Planetside. I think it's an amazing concept and a great game. No other FPS comes close in terms of sheer scale or the degree to which strategy and coordination is necessary. There are still bugs to get worked out, but the game has improved tremendously stability wise since beta.

Also, running a game doesn't necessarily mean achieving playable and stable frame rates, which for me in a FPS are 45+. AMD CPUs run the game ok some of the time, but have big performance dips in processor intensive scenarios like huge battles involving many players just like they do in any CPU intensive game.
 
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Yeah the 3350p is the lowest I would go. It should be alright. The 3630QM in my Y400 laptop gives me playable frame-rates in the mid 40's and it has about the same clock frequency as the 3350P. Performance should be comparable.

Also, I want to reiterate that I'm not down talking the Phenom because I think it's a great CPU for the money and suggest it often on these forums for budget builds. It's just in this one particular case and game, AMD CPUs aren't the tool for the job.
 
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