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December 29, 2013 4:20:44 AM

Hello. im looking for cheap upgrade to improve my assassin creed iv perfomance, it's been running lag like a G6 even at the lowest setting (Res. at 1280x720 change it to 800x600 but still little diff.), i think maybe my processor is not cool enough to handle the coolness of the game but i'd also like to get the GPU upgrade for a couple of years running game at high setting on game that is not CPU-reliant game.

My Pc Spec:

Cpu: amd phenom ii x2 560 3.30ghz
(will upgrade to Amd Phenom II x4 955 3.2 ghz Black edition)

GPU: ATI Radeon HD 4850 GDDR3 512mb (will upgrade to HD 6870/ GTX 650Ti)

i only have budget to upgrade one part of them pc, but im so confused, god help me.

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December 29, 2013 4:30:16 AM

Assassins Creed 4 is an awesome game. I have played and completed it:) 

It is however horribly optimized. I think you would need a CPU and GPU upgrade to get a good experience.
If i were to choose an upgrade for now it would choose the CPU but i am NOT sure on this.
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December 29, 2013 4:34:48 AM

Well, you've got a problem here.
Both of your old CPU and GPU are completely out dated.
If you upgrade your processor, you won't really see a difference because your graphics card is so bad it will bottleneck your new CPU in games.
If you upgrade your graphics card, you will see a performance increase, but I think that it won't get its full potential because of your CPU. Still, get a 650ti if you can instead of hd 6870.

So really, you should save some money and upgrade both of your components.
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December 29, 2013 4:35:09 AM

It's a hard call, I typically recommend GPU first but, in this case the CPU could use a boost as well.

If I had to go with my gut I'd say GPU but a good thing to try would be to fire up a tool that logs your cpu usage, worst case scenario just use the task manager performance tab in windows and see at what percentage your CPU is at while you're playing the game.

You could do the same for your GPU if you want to download GPU tweak or something similar to monitor the graphics card as well but, unless you're playing an older game, the graphics card will usually be close to max usage anyways while playing something.

I'd say if your CPU is more than 80% used while playing, that a new CPU would help more but, like jay2577 says, if you really want to notice you'll have to do both.
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