Should I upgrade my CPU or GPU for Battlefield 4?

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I need to know whether I should upgrade my CPU or GPU. I only have enough money to do one or the other. This will be for running Battlefield 4.

Current CPU: Intel Core i3-3220 @ 3.30 GHz (Will be upgrading to Intel Core i5)

Current GPU: Nvidia Geforce GTX 645 (Will be upgrading to Geforce GTX 660)
 
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as long as you want to upgrade both that should be fine. i think your i3 should work just fine with 660. the problem is the game itself. i heard dual cores are going as good as quad cores in BF3 in single player but they say the difference really comes out when it comes to multi player. but i still believe using dual cores might not preventing you from playing the game at all. if you go for gpu first other games can benefit from that as well.
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It would be good if you could upgrade both. Since you have the money only for one upgrade. I would suggest you to buy a cpu if you are happy to run the game with low settings. We all don't know its cpu requirements . If you want to run the game from med to high settings the i would suggest you upgrade the gpu but your current cpu might bottleneck it.
 
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Wisecracker

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Spend your money (until it hurts) on your graphics.
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Also ... there is quite a price war going on between the 660 and the Radeon HD 7870 ... the XFX DD is $170 after rebate

 
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I'm not sure, I don't have much money now so If i do upgrade my gpu or cpu I won't upgrade the other one for a while
 
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as long as you want to upgrade both that should be fine. i think your i3 should work just fine with 660. the problem is the game itself. i heard dual cores are going as good as quad cores in BF3 in single player but they say the difference really comes out when it comes to multi player. but i still believe using dual cores might not preventing you from playing the game at all. if you go for gpu first other games can benefit from that as well.
 
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Ok, I'll upgrade to a 660. Thanks!
 
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