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czcastermaster

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My 5 year old ASUS gaming laptop shorted out – I’ve enjoyed playing BF3 at 800x600 17 fps but I’m ready for an upgrade.

What are the “sweet spots” in the current market?

There’s so many options but two builds I’ve been interested in are the FX 6300 + GTX 760 or the i5- 4670k + GTX 770 (highest end of my budget).

Economic-wise, would it be better to get a cheap lower end rig now and upgrade later, or get a decent rig now and hope its worth the price difference for future games? I hear a bunch of new technology is coming out like steamroller, e-haswheel, Maxwell that will make the i5-4670k obsolete anyways so I should just stick to the FX 6300. FYI I am happy if I get 30+ fps on 1920x1080 low quality 4 years from now.

I want to hear your opinions, especially the fanboys
 
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Since haswell have digital power delivery built-in the CPU's it's easier to overclock on any z87 board, though without doubt if you want a good mobo, ASUS MAXIMUS V HERO is one of the best at it's price! Im useing it and the auto overclock feature which easily overclocks your cpu to a stable 4.4Ghz with a single click. ;D

For GPU, i didn't mean it was why you should pick the 270, it's because it's a good price/performance without throwing too many...
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I'd go with the i5-4670k and 770. It might be at the high end of your budget, but the i5 isn't going anywhere, nor will it be obsolete so quickly. I donated my i5-750 rig to my cousin not too long ago, and it's still working perfectly fine. With the i5, you have an extremely (if not one of the best) powerful gaming CPU, and if you're not getting the frames you're looking for, you can always upgrade the GPU, which is always an easier option than upgrading your CPU. But I have no doubt that a 770 would easily get 30+ fps on low @ 1080p 4 years from now.
 
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CPU tends to be what stays in your system for the longest time, progressing for the technology is very slow compared to GPUs. i would just go for a good CPU and the utter best price/performance GPU probably R9 270 or the GTX760 both have very good Price/Perf.
The 770's price/perf. Is pretty good too if you want to throw more money in graphics.

I would go i5-4670K + R9 270 and upgrade the gpu after some years of service if i was you. Could probably hold up for 3 years.
 
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They won't "require" multithreading og more cores though they might get more optimized for it. And with technology like AMD Mantle growing slowly, which removes every need of a fast CPU in gaming in supported games. This build wont be obsolete for some time.

Right now you could even run BF4 and the only real bottleneck you'll get is if you have a REALLY slow cpu like AMD's 760K.

 
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well I have the money for an i5-4670k, so I guess I'll just go with that. what's a good mobo for overclocking it, ive never overclocked before

is mantle really worth getting a r9 series instead of a gtx 700? doesn't gtx have phsyx or something thats competing with mantle?
 
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ASUS Z87-A, PRO, or PLUS. ASUS Maximus VI Hero, all depends on budget. MSI Z87-GD45, ASRock Z87 Extreme 4, the list goes on.

DirectX and OpenGL have announced that they are going to delve into the lower level API as mantle is, so getting an AMD card just for Mantle is a bit moot at the moment.

PhysX is an Nvidia GPU only feature, just allows for more shinies and better detail to be enabled at the cost of (sometimes) heavy GPU performance drops. Depends on the game, your card/system.
 
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Since haswell have digital power delivery built-in the CPU's it's easier to overclock on any z87 board, though without doubt if you want a good mobo, ASUS MAXIMUS V HERO is one of the best at it's price! Im useing it and the auto overclock feature which easily overclocks your cpu to a stable 4.4Ghz with a single click. ;D

For GPU, i didn't mean it was why you should pick the 270, it's because it's a good price/performance without throwing too many dollars in the gpu. The Mantle is just a little extra that i felt was worth mentioning, right now it would probably give you 10% fps boost in supported games.

The 770 and 760 is also a great Price/performance depends on if you want to throw more money in your gpu.

As enemy1g said DirectX and OpenCL WILL eventualy also do the same as Mantle,
 
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