Battlefield 4 - Socket 775 CPU's

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I have a few buddies that are still on socket 775, one with a q9550 and one with a q9450. Looks like BF4 is calling for i5 minimum requirement. Is anyone here running the beta with an older CPU and what kind of performance are you getting? They will only need to play on the lowest settings.
 
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It is a good gaming chip for the money. Bumped to an FX 6350, it beats an i3 3225 in gaming and in applications. Well clocked and it is just a bit below a 3570k that costs nearly twice as much. I also said FX 6300 at minimum. Nobody is going to go out and waste their money on a brand new Nehalem or Lynnfield rig. If someone can find a really good deal on a used one, sure why not? I would prefer an FX 8320 or better, personally. But brand new, coming from an old 775 platform, FX 6300 is as low as I would ever consider for anyone. Had the OP's friends had, say i5 750's, I would have said overclock them and buy a better GPU. An i3 beats a Q9550 in games, so an FX 6300 would be even better yet without being overly expensive...
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This is a good reference point:
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/battlefield-4-graphics-card-performance,3634-10.html

Also if playing this game on low settings, doesnt that defeat the purpose?
 
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hi there,

I've a q6600 @ 3ghz, and a 560ti. I tried the beta, and although it was a much bigger map, with much more going on, at 1680 x 1050 I was getting about 30+fps on med-high settings. Not stellar performance.
Saying that, I only like playing smaller maps a la BF3 Noshair Canals. So id imagine the fps would increase slightly.

The I5 quad is the recommended CPU not min. So you will be able to play it on lesser platforms.

With all that said, I really feel the age o my Q6600. on BF3 it was nice enough at about 40-60 on high. Now its at the point where it doesn't quite cut the mustard for the settings I want. I'm considering an I5 upgrade.

Hope my two cents helps some :)


EDIT: This is a really interesting read on IB versus the older LGA775 tech. Well put together, and will give you a decent picture of where those older CPU's stack up in the world of SB/IB/Haswell.
 
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Well, at stock, even 9 series C2Q's are going to struggle, but they can still push around 30 FPS or so with some reduced settings. But all in all, its getting hard to justify upgrading a 775 platform at this point. Its still capable of mid-range gaming though.
 
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Thing about BETA BF4 is that everyone had different experiences. When I played it was HORRIBLE performance wise. Hopefully they have further refined things before today's launch.

I played BF4 Beta with:
i5-750 @ 4GHz (Socket 1156)
8GB DDR3 - 1600
GTX 770

BF3 was VERY CPU intensive. I have to imagine BF4 is at least the same. Personally I can't imagine being happy playing BF4 with an old Core 2 series chip. Lower graphic settings don't help with CPU performance. Lowering graphics help if your video card is slow.

After playing BF4 beta I decided to upgrade my CPU to the i5-4670K and sell my old i5-750. But I also want top end performance. There were areas of the tower map that brought my i5-750 & GTX 770 to it's knees. I'd go from 60FPS down to a very choppy 30FPS.
 
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Ya, I am the one that built the systems for them, probably about 2 years ago. At the time 775 was still relevant especially for general computing but with applications like BF4 it seems to be showing its age. I fell kind of bad about it now, I probably should have gotten them on 1155 or at least 1366. If they can get 30 at low settings, they will be fine with it, but next year I think I will convince them to upgrade.
 
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Did you at least go with DDR3 for those 775 systems? If so, an FX 6300 and an ASUS M5A97, would be a decent upgrade as long as their GPU is also up to the task.
 
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Nah, DDR2. I have already sent them build quotes based around the 6300, but they don't want to spend the money. They are more console gamers...I know sickening right?
 
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Considering I haven't bought a console since my PS2 like 11yrs ago, I say very sickening indeed. :lol: You will just have to tell them they have little choice in the matter. Newer titles have become machine melters to say the least and it is only going to get worse.
 
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Figure a 6300 is somewhere in the high-end i3 range, or mid-30 something FPS in BF4 at max settings. Intel chips, even older Nehalem based ones, simply handle CPU intensive tasks better. [An aged i7-930 beats the FX-6300 by 11 FPS.]

Hence why i dislike the "Buy a FX-6300" mania thats taken over the forums; its not a good gaming chip at all.
 
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It is a good gaming chip for the money. Bumped to an FX 6350, it beats an i3 3225 in gaming and in applications. Well clocked and it is just a bit below a 3570k that costs nearly twice as much. I also said FX 6300 at minimum. Nobody is going to go out and waste their money on a brand new Nehalem or Lynnfield rig. If someone can find a really good deal on a used one, sure why not? I would prefer an FX 8320 or better, personally. But brand new, coming from an old 775 platform, FX 6300 is as low as I would ever consider for anyone. Had the OP's friends had, say i5 750's, I would have said overclock them and buy a better GPU. An i3 beats a Q9550 in games, so an FX 6300 would be even better yet without being overly expensive.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/piledriver-k10-cpu-overclocking,3584-19.html
 
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