What to upgrade to Improve Performance for BF4

Taiga46

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I am wondering what I can and/or should upgrade to improve performance, mostly specific to Battlefield 4.

Edit: Whoops, thought I added specs. Right now, I have a AMD Phenom II X4, a GTX 650 ti boost, and an ASRock 970 Extreme3

Any help would be appreciated, thanks
 
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I would defiantly upgrade your GPU first. Depending on the model of the Phenom II X4 you have you may not see a lot of difference with a new CPU unless you make the jump to a whole new Motherboard and CPU combo. So if you are looking for something to keep you till you can make a swap to a newer system, go with a more powerful GPU like the GTX 770. You can always put that card in your new system a little later down the road.

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I was wondering if there was just one of these that I should upgrade over the rest that would maximize performance improvement. As for budget, I'm not really worried about that, I just want to know if I should focus on my CPU, GPU, or motherboard. Thanks
 

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I would defiantly upgrade your GPU first. Depending on the model of the Phenom II X4 you have you may not see a lot of difference with a new CPU unless you make the jump to a whole new Motherboard and CPU combo. So if you are looking for something to keep you till you can make a swap to a newer system, go with a more powerful GPU like the GTX 770. You can always put that card in your new system a little later down the road.
 
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Taiga46

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Ok, thats really helpful, I'll look into the GPU, thanks!
 

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Hey, sorry, one more question, if I've only got 4 gb of ram, would it make a significant improvement by upgrading my ram? Thanks

 

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''Hey, sorry, one more question, if I've only got 4 gb of ram, would it make a significant improvement by upgrading my ram? Thanks''

of course!
get a kit of 2X4GB memory stick in dual channel mode