help with pc (Arma 3 and Battlefield)

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BanaanVSaap

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Hey everyone,

A while ago i bought a pc, i game almost everyday on it and i did an gpu upgrade in the past.... But i want to do a another upgrade.... i have and HD 7850 and i want to upgrade it to an GTX 970... But i dont know if my cpu is gonna hold the new games.... i have an i7 920 quad core cpu... and i dobt know if its gonna bottleneck? Because i play arma 3 what is a little poor optimized... but should i upgrade my cpu (and motherboard) and stay with my gpu? Or should i upgrade my gpu and upgrade the i7 later?

I hope someone can help me..

Thanks!

(I typed this on a Phone sorry for any mistypes)

 
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You'll see greater graphical gains in-game by upgrading your graphics card, instead of your CPU. In your question you've managed to highlight one of only a few games that are CPU intensive, which would benefit from a CPU upgrade - but it will benefit more from a strong GPU.

However for the majority of games, your PC will run brilliantly with an i7 920 and GTX970. You won't get bottlenecking.
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The i7 920 is still pretty decent, but is a tier or two behind the newest processors out there. I had the same video card paired with an i5 3570k and it did really well in Arma 3. If you're planning on upgrading everything eventually, you may want to look at a new i5/mobo combo, then grab one of the AMD r9 290s when AMD releases their new line of cards. If you can wait a bit, you might snag a nice deal.
 
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If you check out this hierarchy chart on the forum it says that you shouldn't upgrade unless your intended upgrade is AT LEAST three tiers higher. Seeing as your CPU is in tier 3, there's no need for you to upgrade just yet.

Your CPU will run either of those GPUs without trouble. If you want to upgrade I would stick with your i7 920 for now and wait a few months to upgrade to the new Broadwell CPUs, although I doubt it would really be necessary for you.

Hierarchy chart:
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/gaming-cpu-review-overclock,review-32901-5.html
 
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That's true, but Arma 3 is very CPU intensive, and very much single core intensive. From what I've seen in benchmarks the i7 920 was hitting mid 40s fps and your third and fourth generation i5s and i7s were hitting low to mid 50s in fps. That is a decent bump. I was mainly suggesting upgrading the mobo/cpu because I think there are going to be drops in GPU prices but processors/mobos typically won't change much in price. There's nothing worse than dropping 400 bucks on a GPU then seeing it going for 250 a few months later.
 
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I tried overclocking my cpu but i cant... the Bios is locked... and even a flashed bios won't do it.. im not to worried about getting a new cooler because my cpu only went to 40C on load....
 
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You'll see greater graphical gains in-game by upgrading your graphics card, instead of your CPU. In your question you've managed to highlight one of only a few games that are CPU intensive, which would benefit from a CPU upgrade - but it will benefit more from a strong GPU.

However for the majority of games, your PC will run brilliantly with an i7 920 and GTX970. You won't get bottlenecking.
 
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Thank you! you answered my question what i needed to know.... Im going to buy a new GPU

THANKS!!!!

Sidney.
 
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