Complete System, Absolute cheapest to play Planetside 2 1080p?

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Friend needs a build just for this game, needs everything but the monitor, would like an SSD too, no need for mass storage. Wifi is something he would like to, wirless n is all thats needed.

He needs the cheapest he can get to max out Planetside 2 40+ FPS in all situations, 1080p.

I was wondering if the cheap g3258 oc to 4ghz, or i3 4150 would be able to pull it off, if not the i5 4460 should? As this is a very demanding game cpu, Has 1/2 heavy threads, and isnt very optimized for multi cores.

graphics card, im not sure how demanding the game is, I know its not nearly as demanding graphically as bf4, so maybe a r9 270 can max it out?, as r9 280 can max bf4 out.


 
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While it would probably do better than the g3258 nowadays, that's not saying much. Take a look at the benchmarks on this site, you need some serious cpu power nowadays.

http://www.hardwarepal.com/planetside-2-cpu-benchmark/
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Unfortunately, after the ps4 version came out, an update of some sort seemed to make the game run worse on processors with less cores. I'm not really sure how that happened, but it seems that people who used to get great fps with the g3258 now get terrible fps. This game is very cpu intensive compared to other games, only needing an r9 270 to get 40+fps on average. So the cheapest thing you can get that can play planetside 2 at 40+ fps at 1080p is a new processor, like the i5 4690k and an r9 270x. See the build below as an example.

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/3R6BHx
 
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While it would probably do better than the g3258 nowadays, that's not saying much. Take a look at the benchmarks on this site, you need some serious cpu power nowadays.

http://www.hardwarepal.com/planetside-2-cpu-benchmark/
 
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Sorry, but if you want to build a gaming pc that can play planetside 2, it's going to cost you about $800, including peripherals and the os. But if someone's going to pay that much for a computer, at that point it just makes more sense to throw in a couple hundred more dollars and build a gaming machine that can take on any game at ultra settings at 1080p.
 
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That's what I've read in some forums, and the benchmarks support that claim, but I'm not 100% sure. You can see what this forum has to say about it: http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-2455265/planetside-showing-cpu-limited-fps-4790k-gtx-780.html

But if you want help building a budge pc that can run anything at 1080p 60fps depending on the settings, I'm sure I could help find you some good deals, or at least put together a concept build for you.
 
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Well I had problems last year where it at most it would only use 40% of one of my cores (Phenom2 x4 840) , and 2 others were around 10%, while last core was 5-6% usage. Yet in game I would always be cpu bottlnecked, my gpu usage (7870 oc) was only ~50%

In intense battles id drop down to the teens, and average low 20s in fps.

 
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Yeah, it would seem that the coding for Planetside 2 is just awful generally speaking, that it just isn't well optimized, and so no matter what hardware you're using, you'll always have problems achieving optimal performance.
 
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