What to upgrade

majic2

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Hello,
Been looking on what to upgrade although im aware its not needed. My guess is get new motherboard cpu and ram but not sure might be graphics card or bad ssd. SO here are my components:
Asus P8Z77-V LX motherboard
8gb of corsair vengance DDR3 ram. ( 2x 4gb not sure what model it is )
AMD RAEDON HD 7800 SERIES graphics card
Intel Core i5 3570k @3.40Ghz
OCZ-Agility3 ATA 223 Gb ssd.
Runnig windows 7 home premium 64-bit
Not sure if you need anything else if yes please let me know and thanks already :)
Want this for gaming on ultra settings.
Best wishes
majic
 
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Overclock your processor and just add the 970 video card you won't see 5 FPS difference in any of the games. Buying a i7 makes no sense with the processor you have. Your going to spend $500 bucks for almost no performance difference. Even in Watch Dogs and about 0 in BF4
Update the case a Corsair 200R is a good budget case. Corsair 450D for a nicer case with good airflow.

Uhmm to play games on ULTRA, aka 2013, 2014, 2015 titles; which would include heavy weights like WatchDogs, Metro: Last Light, BF4, etc. then you would need at least a i7-4xxx, matched with at LEAST a GTX 970 more likely a GTX 980 to achieve your target goal. Additional to that would be
1) Check the PSU to see if it can meet any of the changes (low power / cheapo PSUs kill systems)
2) If you multitask alot (i.e. keep Chrome open with several pages, IM, streaming music, Origin) while gaming (BF4 for example) then your probably been using PAGEFILE as you only have 8GB (BF4 for example works BEST in 8GB by itself, not even antivirus running). You might then consider bumping to 16GB RAM (add two 4GB sticks to take up all 4 slots?) which right off will help if you been unknowingly using Pagefile.
3) Add a 2-3TB 7200TB drive (you only show a small SSD) for all the games. After 50% a SSD's performance drops in proportion to how much space is left. This as you 'fill' the drive with Steam Games, you would impact system overall performance. Other then 'Screen Loads' being faster, being on a SSD does NOT improve FPS / game performance otherwise.
 

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Power supply is 550w corsair one which i guess needs an update,
case is an old model but simular to the liam-li PC-8E http://www.lian-li.com/en/dt_portfolio/pc-8e/.
Cpu cooler is arctic freezer 13
Resolution is 1920 x 1080
AMD Radeon HD 7850 Core Edition so with only 1gb of memory.
Thanks for the quick replys
 

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Sorry forgot to mention also have a 465hd so manage to keep half of ssd space free
 

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Overclock your processor and just add the 970 video card you won't see 5 FPS difference in any of the games. Buying a i7 makes no sense with the processor you have. Your going to spend $500 bucks for almost no performance difference. Even in Watch Dogs and about 0 in BF4
Update the case a Corsair 200R is a good budget case. Corsair 450D for a nicer case with good airflow.

 
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Okay thanks alot :)
 


I am sorry you are VERY wrong. To begin with the OP 7850 does only 26FPS on Ultra in BF4
http://www.techspot.com/review/734-battlefield-4-benchmarks/page3.html
"Add the 970 Video card' and you see a 35FPS difference, as now the OP gets 61FPS minimum
http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/graphics/2014/09/19/nvidia-geforce-gtx-970-review/6

The i5 has less cores than a i7 to do the 'same job' and the older Sandybridge chipset performs less than the old Haswell and newer Broadwell chipset because they made significant changes to the designs that have improved performance quite measurably. So even if we try a near Apple to Apple comparison:
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/watch-dogs-pc-performance,3833-8.html
Here is a i5-3550 using a Titan on Ultra as OP wants, and does ONLY 47.5 FPS avg.
ONLY changing the CPU to a i7-3960X, and the SAME EXACT SYSTEM ON THE SAME GAME now does 65.2 avg!!
YES again that IS a performance difference.

If you were jilted by the Techspot review http://www.techspot.com/review/827-watch-dogs-benchmarks/page3.html, I knew something was 'off' in the results because ALL the high end CPUs, no matter the Clock Speed all STOPPED at 82FPS.
A further review of the article shows that all were testing against the R9 290X, NOT the 780Ti which performed even better and certainly NOT with the 970 or 980 that is currently out there. While this http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/nvidia-geforce-gtx-980-970-maxwell,3941-10.html does show the SIGNIFICANT difference the R9 290X (53.5FPS) is compared to a GTX 980 (76.2 FPS) would then probably show the Techspot 'stuck on 82' testing was faulty.