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Wheres my major bottleneck

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January 20, 2014 7:53:20 AM

First off I am almost completely done with my rebuild of a new pc which will be:

AMD FX-8320 CPU (will oc to 4.0ghz)
ASUS M5A97 R2.0 Motherboard
8 Gigs of Gskill sniper Ram 1600
Radeon HD 7870 OC edition

BUT, right now here is my setup:

Core i5-670 CPU
ASUS P7H55-M PRO Motherboard
4 gigs 1333 Ram
Radeon HD 7870 OC edition

so with my current setup I am playing bf4 fine on the campaign with ultra settings as long as I have AA turned off (I leave post aa on)

but when I jump into multi matches, especially the bigger ones...I am getting low frames (20-25fps sometimes)...and I have to drop everything to high and turn aa off and post aa off.

Just trying to find where the major bottleneck is?

I know the video card is slightly pushed here, but is it my cpu or low amount or ram?

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January 20, 2014 8:00:13 AM

I think it's the GPU. According to the reviews I saw, even a FX-4100 is enough to drive a R9 290X @ 1080p, so I wouldn't blame your Core i5 here.
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January 20, 2014 8:00:17 AM

In big multiplayer matches you will need a good CPU and a good upload internet speed, try lowering down your settings

I play with a 7950 and a i5 3330 with settings set to High-Ultra at 55-60fps
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January 20, 2014 9:04:06 AM

Metalrenok said:
In big multiplayer matches you will need a good CPU and a good upload internet speed, try lowering down your settings

I play with a 7950 and a i5 3330 with settings set to High-Ultra at 55-60fps


So do you think the fx-8320 will noticeably out perform the dual core 670?

I can handle it, but when it starts dropping below like 35fps, I start to notice the smoothness go away.
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January 20, 2014 9:26:58 AM

http://cpuboss.com/cpus/Intel-Core-i5-670-vs-AMD-FX-832...

Yes, the i5 670 is a hyperthreaded dual core, whilst the 8320 has 8 real cores, which BF4 can take advantage of, it will outperfom the i5 in any scenario
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January 20, 2014 9:27:05 PM

Metalrenok said:
In big multiplayer matches you will need a good CPU and a good upload internet speed, try lowering down your settings

I play with a 7950 and a i5 3330 with settings set to High-Ultra at 55-60fps


It was the cpu... I overclocked the cpu up to 3.98 and got an extra 10-15fps...so I was hitting between 37-67fps in bf4 on big maps. The
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January 21, 2014 3:27:15 AM

Perfect, then the 8320 OC'ed should give you better performance :)  you can even take it further than 4GHz
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January 21, 2014 4:40:47 AM

Yes the problem is BF4 (& BF3) multiplayer does not like running on dual core CPUs while the campaign is fine.
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