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I recently purchased this cpu i get pretty good fps on simple games like borderlands 2 league of legends skyrim high or ultra settings but all of the sudden when more npc appears the fps drop below 30 making it sluggish lagged i was thinking about buyibg a stronger graphics but i am oblivious about what would work with my pc. the specs are below and what would be a good price for the cpu to buy it for, i got it for 300
Lenovo K330 IdeaCentre
Processor: Intel i7-2600, 3.40Ghz
Memory: 12GB
Graphics: NVIDIA GT 545 1.5gb
Drive: 2TB SATA 3.0
Media Reader: 16-in-1 card reader
Optical: Blu-Ray
Front Ports: 2 USB, microphone, headphone
Rear Ports: 6 USB, keyboard (ps/2), mouse (ps/2), gigabit Ethernet, line-in, line-out, microphone
Display Outputs: 1 VGA, 1 DVI, 1 HDMI
Network: Ethernet port (wired) and wireless usb adapter included
 
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NVIDIA GT 545 1.5gb is just a slow card I misunderstood his budget I believe.

His PC has one of these 2 supplies.
280W or 450W the user will need to pop the case to determine which one.

The 450W version normally ships with a GTX 460 or HD 5750.

If he is running a 280W supply he should replace it with a 450W or better that would allow him to use a R7-260X for ~$90 or 750TI for ~$150 becuase of case limitations cards larger than these will be impossible.
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Have you tried reducing your graphical settings to medium and see if the drop in frames still persist?

What game is giving you issues? It might just be the game itself. Sometimes it's poorly coded and optimized so a better graphics card could remedy that issue. Give me a little more info.

What games are causing the fps drops when the environment gets crowded?

What settings do you use for that particular game?

Do you have the most updated drivers for your specific video card? And if you do is the software itself the issue (meaning that bugs might exist within that particular build of the software and downgrading might help you)

 
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delaro

delaro

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NVIDIA GT 545 1.5gb is just a slow card I misunderstood his budget I believe.

His PC has one of these 2 supplies.
280W or 450W the user will need to pop the case to determine which one.

The 450W version normally ships with a GTX 460 or HD 5750.

If he is running a 280W supply he should replace it with a 450W or better that would allow him to use a R7-260X for ~$90 or 750TI for ~$150 becuase of case limitations cards larger than these will be impossible.
 
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looks like your power supply is pretty limited. I would personally go with GTX 750 Ti; high output per power ratio, works great for me on max settings in skyrim.

the thing that amazes me the most is... it doesn't need a 6-pin power supply ^^ or at least for MSi's version.
 
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OEM case you will not fit a card that big inside it, A 750TI would work great but a new power supply might still be needed.

 
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