I purchased Battlefield 4 a few days ago and this is the first game I've hit with my current system where the performance is less than I am satisified with. This is telling me its time to start thinking about an upgrade.
My main question is whether its worthwhile to upgrade my video card or if the age of my system and components means that its bottlenecked somewhere else (processor?) and I'm unlikely to see much of an improvement.
I'd be willing to spend up to $200 to $250 upgrading the video card if that would give me a significant performance improvement (looks like that would get me something like a GTX 660 2GB or GTX 760 2 GB), but am looking for some advice as to whether I'm being more limited by my 4 year old processor/RAM etc at this point.
Thanks so much for any advice!
My current specs are as follows:
CPU: INTEL, Core™ i7-920 Quad-Core 2.66GHz, LGA1366, 4.8 GT/s QPI, 8MB L3 Cache, 45nm, 130W, EM64T EIST VT XD
Motherboard: ASUS, Rampage II GENE, LGA1366, Intel® X58, 6400 MT/s QPI, DDR3-2000 (O.C.) 24GB /6, PCIe x16 SLI CF /2, SATA 3 Gb/s RAID 5 /7, HDA, GbLAN, FW /2, mATX
RAM: CORSAIR, 6GB (3 x 2GB) XMS3 PC3-12800 DDR3 1600MHz
Video Card: GTX 560 Ti 2 GB (I think...it is possible it is 1GB, I'm not at home and able to check)
Hard drive is traditional (not a SSD) and the OS is Win 7 64-bit. I have the latest drivers for the video card. The core of the computer is 4 years old at this point, the video card was a more recent upgrade.
My main question is whether its worthwhile to upgrade my video card or if the age of my system and components means that its bottlenecked somewhere else (processor?) and I'm unlikely to see much of an improvement.
I'd be willing to spend up to $200 to $250 upgrading the video card if that would give me a significant performance improvement (looks like that would get me something like a GTX 660 2GB or GTX 760 2 GB), but am looking for some advice as to whether I'm being more limited by my 4 year old processor/RAM etc at this point.
Thanks so much for any advice!
My current specs are as follows:
CPU: INTEL, Core™ i7-920 Quad-Core 2.66GHz, LGA1366, 4.8 GT/s QPI, 8MB L3 Cache, 45nm, 130W, EM64T EIST VT XD
Motherboard: ASUS, Rampage II GENE, LGA1366, Intel® X58, 6400 MT/s QPI, DDR3-2000 (O.C.) 24GB /6, PCIe x16 SLI CF /2, SATA 3 Gb/s RAID 5 /7, HDA, GbLAN, FW /2, mATX
RAM: CORSAIR, 6GB (3 x 2GB) XMS3 PC3-12800 DDR3 1600MHz
Video Card: GTX 560 Ti 2 GB (I think...it is possible it is 1GB, I'm not at home and able to check)
Hard drive is traditional (not a SSD) and the OS is Win 7 64-bit. I have the latest drivers for the video card. The core of the computer is 4 years old at this point, the video card was a more recent upgrade.
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