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Hello. Yesterday I got BF4 and played it till reaching USS Titan mission. There I have low fps or it just freezes for a sec or less every 5 minutes or less. I noticed my GPU is around 60%-100% while my CPU is at 90-100% usage (monitoring with MSI Afterburner). Settings: everything on low except Effects quality which is on medium and resolution at 1024x768 (max is 1280x1024). Can I improve somehow the FPS (ranging from 20 to 67) or the freezes? Is it possible to have a nice quality anyhow?

CPU: Core 2 Duo e7500
GPU: Gigabyte Geforce GT 630 (2gb DDR3)
RAM: 4GB 800 MHz DDR2
Motherboard: Biostar G33/G31-M7 TE (v6.1) if needed for overclock
HDD: 320GB 7200RPM 16MB cache Hitachi (if loading times are too big).

PS: I ain't a native English so, please, IF you want, say what mistakes I made in writing.
 
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The Q6600 and E5440 are essentially exactly the same, so going with whichever is cheaper will be best. Also, those are effectively the only processors under $30, the rest of the faster Core 2 Quad range that's worth buying is above the $40 mark.

Battlefield 4 is pretty resource hungry, and understandably so. It especially uses less ram, that I find.
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You'll probably find that the game is asking too much of your current setup for it to deliver, as would be the case with your processor. Short of buying an entirely new system or at the very least replacing the e7500 with a Q6600 or something there's not much you can do you increase performance.

However the hitching/freezing can also be caused by a shortage of available system memory/ram. You say you have 4gb and while Battlefield 4 can work with that small amount (which is the bare minimum amount in specs they suggest only with yours being much slower), you'll need to have most of it available for Battlefield 4 to use and if you have steam and many other programs running in the background the whole time it will chew through it fast and cause frequent hitching/freezing. So try closing any background applications you have running before launching Battlefield.
 
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At any given moment I have 1 Gb or a bit more of RAM available. Going to buy an Q6700 to replace my C2D. Will it be enough for some time, coz, anyway, the next year I won't have time to game (going to college)? Huh, I thought my GPU is the problem here, but it seems it does it's job for 40$. Also, I have seen a Xeon E4460 for the same meny. Xeon or Q6700?

PS: What settings don't hit the performance very much, so I could set them a bit higher?
 
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That's..too little free ram, so even with a processor upgrade you'll still encounter freezes because of it and I'd suggest first working out what you can close to free up some more. And I'm unfortunately not familiar with the Xeon 4460, I know there is an i5 4460 but I can find no reference to that model of Xeon.

Unfortunately overall, even if you get more DDR2 ram and an older-gen Core 2 Quad processor you'll still be unprepared for many other games coming out this year. Pretty much all settings in BF4 will tax your system heavily, as it's just very outdated. The big performance hogs tend to be shader/lighting and shadow related while upping textures can have less of a performance hit.

Your graphics card is also going to give you issues at some point too, since it's from Kepler> lineup (several years old), and the lower-end at that, although for now your biggest issue will still be the processor.
 
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I decided to buy either a Q6700/q6600 or a Xeon E5440 for my Biostar G31-M7 TE 6.1. Which will be better? http://www.aliexpress.com/item/works-on-LGA-775-mainboard-no-need-adapter-For-Intel-Xeon-E5440-CPU-2-83GHz-12M/32333602362.html?spm=2114.01010208.3.10.UmPVxI&ws_ab_test=searchweb201556_2,searchweb201644_2_505_506_503_504_502_10001_10002_10016_10017_10010_10005_10011_10006_10003_10004_10009_10008,searchweb201560_1,searchweb1451318400_-1,searchweb1451318411_6450&btsid=0e96cb03-ea68-4661-8379-b00b625d0afc Will it work on my motherboard? Risk free (motherboard dieng etc.)? What quad core CPU can you suggest for max 30$ (ebay.com and alliexpress.com)?

Regarding the games performance, I now play BF 3 multiplayer no lag or freeezse even on 64 player servers. I was shocked.

PS: sorry for not responding. no net for a few days.
 
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The Q6600 and E5440 are essentially exactly the same, so going with whichever is cheaper will be best. Also, those are effectively the only processors under $30, the rest of the faster Core 2 Quad range that's worth buying is above the $40 mark.

Battlefield 4 is pretty resource hungry, and understandably so. It especially uses less ram, that I find.
 
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But itțs got a lower TDP, right? Can you overclock it? Ițm just asking, since wonțt do it on a G31 chipset MoBo and a CELERON cooler.

A last question: will the xeon harm my MoBo? Don't want to risk. From 15 commentaries, only 1 guy said the motherboard stopped working after some time, but he said it was, most probably, not because of the cpu.
 
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