J-Cup :
thor220 :
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Fulgurant :
thor220 :
You could always resell the A8, it's very popular for home media centers.
Yes, if J is determined to buy an a10, then he really should try to sell the a8 for as much as he possibly can; otherwise he's paying ~$130 for like a 10% increase in CPU performance in games.
That's not a good value no matter how you slice it. I maintain that J would be better off either foregoing the CPU upgrade entirely, or by selling his system whole (minus the 7850), and rebuilding around the HD 7850.
So wouldnt it be cheaper to sell my MoBo and A8 and using the money + a bit more to get the i5 and new socket?
In the long run, yes. You would have a much better cpu and it would last much longer before another upgrade is due, not to mention the increased performance. But if you don't have the money on hand you would have to wait till your old parts sell.
So is this lag I get in Planetside 2 purely my CPU? I get it only in intense areas other than that its smooth as silk or do you suggest a new GPU. I did a lot of research before buying the 7850 and it seemed like ppl were getting playable FPS (in my opinion) on all my favorite games. Would a new CPU and mobo solve the random chops in some games and the lag in PS2 (i just got BF3 and it runs smooth on ultra settings)
Most probably yes. When you notice choppiness in heavily-populated areas of multiplayer games, the CPU is generally the problem, or if you prefer, the bottleneck. It's also possible that the server that hosts the game struggles in those areas, but your CPU is the first thing I'd check.
That isn't to say that a new CPU (in this case, the i5 3570k) would solve
all of the problem; some games can bring even top-end CPUs to their knees in heavily populated multi-player scenes. In SWTOR, for example, the game was optimized so poorly for heavily populated areas that the developers ended up (more or less) scrapping open-world PvP altogether.
I have no personal experience with, or really even any useful knowledge about, Planetside 2. I can't guarantee you that any particular upgrade of your rig would give you the experience that you desire in that game. But if you really really love Planetside 2, then a CPU upgrade is probably worth pursuing. In your case, unfortunately, a worthwhile CPU upgrade also necessitates a change of platform. A change of platform may necessitate a new Windows license, too.