Should i upgrade my CPU for gaming performance?

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lukearley01

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My current CPU right now is the AMD FX-4350 running at 4.1Ghz, i have a GTX 750Ti graphics card. do you think i should upgrade? i mean will it improve the gaming experience for first person shooters?
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It's not like he has a old a2 and going to be running a 980 card.
Their always a slow down some where depending on the game if it's the processor or video card.
Some games you could run a i3 with a GTX 980 without problems, others GW2 comes to mind a overclocked i5 will not push a 960 in WVW.

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Your not going to get much better performance for spending the money on a new processor unless you just wish to go ahead and get a FX 8350.
That would be a solid upgrade, then upgrade your video card next.
Pay no attention to any bottleneck remarks that are made that word should be wiped off the face of the earth.
 
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Why? If you build a machine with too weak a CPU relative to your graphics card so that your GPU utilization is dropping into the the 30%-40% range consistently it's not a good setup.
 
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The way to test whether you're getting CPU bottlenecked is to download HWInfo64 and RivaTunerStatsServer, and use these tools to monitor GPU usage in your games at the settings you normally play at.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAKNp7PAVG4

If your GPU usage is at 100% or near in most games, then getting a better CPU isn't going to make any difference whatsoever. If you're getting lots of dips into the 40% range, if your GPU is usually running at 60%-70% utilization in your games, then your CPU is holding your GPU back and it would be good to upgrade if you have the spare cash and and aren't getting the performance you want. I would say not to freak out if a game or two gives bad GPU usage while the rest are fine. For instance, I could never consistently hit 100% GPU usage (GTX 970) in Crysis 1 even with my 4.4 GHz G3258, much less my 3.4GHz Xeon E3-1231v3 (Crysis 1 is written for dual core so the extra cores and hyperthreading in my Xeon are useless for it, and the Pentium is way stronger for that game because of the high overclock). Arma III is another game where you'll never get 100% GPU usage because of bad optimization.

My guess is your quadcore FX chip and GTX 750 Ti are probably going to be a very balanced configuration and that you'll get really solid 90%-100% GPU usage in most of your games, but follow the tutorial I linked to find out for sure.
 
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your 4350 is capable of running a far better gpu than the 750ti.
look at a gtx r9 270x/gtx 960 /r9 280 /r9 280x - in order of budget
any of those will give you a fair performance boost over your current 750ti which is currently the weak link in your setup.
Buy whatever your budget allows ,the gpu will give you the most significant increase at the moment & will carry over if you decide to upgrade the rest of your system at a later date.
 
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It's not like he has a old a2 and going to be running a 980 card.
Their always a slow down some where depending on the game if it's the processor or video card.
Some games you could run a i3 with a GTX 980 without problems, others GW2 comes to mind a overclocked i5 will not push a 960 in WVW.

 
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