Ineed a good cpu upgrade. I got a Nvidida 660 TI and a Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3 (came with 8gb ram when I bought it) with AMD Phenom II x4 965 BE put in it. So far I have been able to play pretty much any game atleast 40+ FPs but recently I have been playing a couple of games and haven't been getting much on those. For example I was trying out the Dragon's Prophet MMO. At max It wants to jump between 30-40 to less then 10, but at minimum it stays a solid 60. So what I would like to know is what would a good upgrade to be able to up the settings and still have good fps?
Need good upgrade.
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CaptainTom
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Have you overclocked your Phenom? Get that puppy to 4.5 GHz and you should see some substantial gains. Also overclocking the 660 Ti wouldn't hurt...
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Overclocking can't hurt, I would recommend that as well. If it still isn't enough, update your BIOS to the latest version and drop in an FX-6300.
I have tried overclocking but I can't get past 4.0 without using pretty high volts. I think I used 1.5volts, I would have to go like 1.525 or higher for 4.5. Running Prime95 just to gte it running brings my cpu to 3422-3423 MHz at 1.472 volts (stock). Also while running at 4.0 temps weren't a problem, it never went past 52C (hyper 212 push/pull).
CaptainTom
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Well push it to 4.2 GHz and keep it there. Tell me the results! Just make sure it isn't reaching 60c and you are fine...
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Well yeah at least run it at 4 GHz. At those speeds you should beat all i3's besides the best couple of Haswells.
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