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July 29, 2014 9:15:58 PM

I currently play Arma 3 Altis Life, King of the Hill and Wasteland and when I do play it. I have to play the game set on all the lowest yet I still get 15-20 FPS.

I also plan to upgrade my CPU and Motherboard due to not being able to play some games on high settings (i.e Dayz). I was planning on getting an i5-4570/4670 and a Gigabyte GA-P85-D3. My budget for upgrading my CPU & Motherboard is around $400 and wanted to know what else I am able to upgrade to. Is the Fx-8320/8350 a good pick?
Another thing is that I don't really plan to overclock my CPU anytime soon but I do want to keep it around 35 degrees when playing games. Should I keep with the stock cooler or possibly get an H80i?

My computer specs:

    FX-6300
    Gigabyte 970A-D3P
    MSI R9 270x
    2x2gb Kingston HyperX RAM
    750gb HDD

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July 29, 2014 9:30:54 PM

Just want to throw some things out there:

1) You could just buy a good air cooler for $90 (Or a closed loop water cooler for $110, which will be noisier and no better performance, but won't have a large weight on your motherboard), and overclock the CPU you have right now. That would solve your problem.

2) Why do you not want to overclock? If it's because you're worried about damaging things, don't be. Modern parts come with all sorts of failsafes in case of any kind of issue.

3) Why do you want your CPU to run so cool? There is literally zero reason for that aside from maybe bragging rights.

4) If you were going to upgrade, I would tell you to buy a small SSD, buy a cooler and overclock, and buy a second 270x. That would do WAYYYYYYY more for your performance than switching to a locked i5, for pretty much the same price. You would have better graphics performance than an R9 290x and would alleviate your bottleneck by overclocking, plus get an SSD to let that old hard drive just have to work as data storage.
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July 29, 2014 9:46:10 PM

DarkSable said:
Just want to throw some things out there:

1) You could just buy a good air cooler for $90 (Or a closed loop water cooler for $110, which will be noisier and no better performance, but won't have a large weight on your motherboard), and overclock the CPU you have right now. That would solve your problem.

2) Why do you not want to overclock? If it's because you're worried about damaging things, don't be. Modern parts come with all sorts of failsafes in case of any kind of issue.

3) Why do you want your CPU to run so cool? There is literally zero reason for that aside from maybe bragging rights.

4) If you were going to upgrade, I would tell you to buy a small SSD, buy a cooler and overclock, and buy a second 270x. That would do WAYYYYYYY more for your performance than switching to a locked i5, for pretty much the same price. You would have better graphics performance than an R9 290x and would alleviate your bottleneck by overclocking, plus get an SSD to let that old hard drive just have to work as data storage.


If I get an H80i how high would I have to go (GHz) and would it be able to run Arma 3 near Ultra at smooth frames because in the single player I get around 30 FPS but on the mods I get 15-20. And how noticeable would the difference be if I switch to an i5?

The temperature thing was just me being stupid.

Do you have any suggestions on which i5/mobo I should get? and I want to try to keep it all under $500.
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July 30, 2014 8:32:56 AM

You shouldn't get an H80i. Seriously, closed loop watercoolers kinda suck untill you're looking at a Kraken x280 or an H100i.

An air cooler will dissipate heat more effectively and be far less likely to fail because the only moving part is a fan, not a cheap pump.

That being said, You aren't going to run Arma 3 near Ultra with a smooth framerate.

1) Your graphics card would keel over and die. I have an overclocked GTX 670 that can't max out Arma 3.

2) There isn't any way for me to tell you exactly what you need, but with decent cooling, you should be able to get your chip up to 4.4, 4.5 GHz very easily.

3) If you aren't overclocking and switch to an i5, there will be a moderate but noticeable improvement. If you are overclocking, the i5 won't make nearly a big enough of a difference for how much money you'd be looking at when you already have a decent CPU.

4) Bearing in mind that I strongly recommend buying a good cooler, an ssd, and a second 270x for the same price and way, way better performance, you should be able to afford an i5-4690K and an AsRock z97 Extreme 4 for about $370, which would leave you a little play room to get a cooler if you wanted.
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July 30, 2014 8:43:18 AM

DarkSable said:
You shouldn't get an H80i. Seriously, closed loop watercoolers kinda suck untill you're looking at a Kraken x280 or an H100i.

An air cooler will dissipate heat more effectively and be far less likely to fail because the only moving part is a fan, not a cheap pump.

That being said, You aren't going to run Arma 3 near Ultra with a smooth framerate.

1) Your graphics card would keel over and die. I have an overclocked GTX 670 that can't max out Arma 3.

2) There isn't any way for me to tell you exactly what you need, but with decent cooling, you should be able to get your chip up to 4.4, 4.5 GHz very easily.

3) If you aren't overclocking and switch to an i5, there will be a moderate but noticeable improvement. If you are overclocking, the i5 won't make nearly a big enough of a difference for how much money you'd be looking at when you already have a decent CPU.

4) Bearing in mind that I strongly recommend buying a good cooler, an ssd, and a second 270x for the same price and way, way better performance, you should be able to afford an i5-4690K and an AsRock z97 Extreme 4 for about $370, which would leave you a little play room to get a cooler if you wanted.


I'll probably go with with the 2nd 270x, cooler and an SSD. Thank you so much! :) 
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July 30, 2014 9:10:35 AM

DarkSable said:
You shouldn't get an H80i. Seriously, closed loop watercoolers kinda suck untill you're looking at a Kraken x280 or an H100i.

An air cooler will dissipate heat more effectively and be far less likely to fail because the only moving part is a fan, not a cheap pump.

That being said, You aren't going to run Arma 3 near Ultra with a smooth framerate.

1) Your graphics card would keel over and die. I have an overclocked GTX 670 that can't max out Arma 3.

2) There isn't any way for me to tell you exactly what you need, but with decent cooling, you should be able to get your chip up to 4.4, 4.5 GHz very easily.

3) If you aren't overclocking and switch to an i5, there will be a moderate but noticeable improvement. If you are overclocking, the i5 won't make nearly a big enough of a difference for how much money you'd be looking at when you already have a decent CPU.

4) Bearing in mind that I strongly recommend buying a good cooler, an ssd, and a second 270x for the same price and way, way better performance, you should be able to afford an i5-4690K and an AsRock z97 Extreme 4 for about $370, which would leave you a little play room to get a cooler if you wanted.


Do I need a new motherboard? Because I have to X16 slots, but one is running on X4 will it all bottleneck?
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July 30, 2014 9:54:09 PM

Of course, I'm glad that I could help!

I just googled your motherboard, and it does support Crossfire at x16, x4.

That's not absolutely wonderful, but since you aren't running extremely high end cards, it should work just great - the second card isn't going to have as much need to use the bus.... from what I can find, running at x16, x4 only takes about a 5% hit vs running at x16, x16, and that was with 5890s. With modern cards it seems to be a lot more like 1-2%.
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