Csgo pc upgrading! help me :)

Tomatoes · May 21, 2016

Hello boys.My pc has:

Cougar spike case
8gb ram
520 watt seasonic s2(80+ gold)
gt 730
intel pentium g3258 5ghz(oc)
asrock h81-gl
windows 10 64bit

so i run csgo all low settings 100+fps-140.I want to run at least 250-300+ and i dont know what to upgrade first.Cpu or gpu? my budget is 250-300 euros i have already 2 options:

1)Buy an i5 4690K watercooled(at least 4.5 ghz with oc)
and stay with gt 730

2)Buy an r9 390(because he wins in almost every game the 970(dont know about cs) and stay with pentium.WHats your opinions? thanks in advance!

Avineet · May 21, 2016

In your case to get immediate good results upgrade your gpu.It will definitely improve your fps in csgo for now..(though the CPU is a slight bottleneck)

And then later you upgrade your CPU to i5 4690k..

Avineet · May 21, 2016

And also remember you can't overclock the i5 on h81 board you need a Z mobo to oc it !!

jakegroves · May 21, 2016

Tomatoes :

To be honest your CPU is underrated it is still a boss for its price tag. Defitnly upgrade your graphics card to r9 390.
The GPU requires minimum 550W so do not overclock your GPU too heavily.
Remember you also have only PCIe 2.0 slot and not PCIe 3.0. PCIe 3 is twice as fast as 2 but they both have the same bandwidth. So your performance shall not be affected.
Although, the Pascal cards are about to be released and the gtx 970 will drop a considerable amount it is reckoned. May be worth holding out to see if that affects anything.

But bare in mind some games are CPU intensive e.g.
Civilization V
Minecraft
Assassin's Creed Games
Planetside 2
Counter Strike: Global Offensive
Total War Games

Soo yes it will improve the graphics considerably but not be at its full potential graphics wise, as the CPU will end up being the bottleneck

Hope that helps

Tomatoes · May 22, 2016

jakegroves :

Tomatoes :

To be honest your CPU is underrated it is still a boss for its price tag. Defitnly upgrade your graphics card to r9 390.
The GPU requires minimum 550W so do not overclock your GPU too heavily.
Remember you also have only PCIe 2.0 slot and not PCIe 3.0. PCIe 3 is twice as fast as 2 but they both have the same bandwidth. So your performance shall not be affected.
Although, the Pascal cards are about to be released and the gtx 970 will drop a considerable amount it is reckoned. May be worth holding out to see if that affects anything.

But bare in mind some games are CPU intensive e.g.
Civilization V
Minecraft
Assassin's Creed Games
Planetside 2
Counter Strike: Global Offensive
Total War Games

Soo yes it will improve the graphics considerably but not be at its full potential graphics wise, as the CPU will end up being the bottleneck

Hope that helps

yeah but i have oc this cpu from 3.2 to 5ghz! is still a bottleneck?Thanks for your help and with 970/390 should i be able to gave standard 200+ fps?

Tomatoes · May 22, 2016

Avineet :

Yeah i forgot it thanks for the info!

jakegroves · May 22, 2016

Tomatoes :

multiple points i will to make it clearer for you:

the g3258 is dual core with 2 threads and doesn't having hyper-threading. The haswell i processors all have more cores, hpyer-threaded, more l3 cache, generally better clocking speeds.

Also could you go into your bios and post your voltage value for the CPU as i didn't think 5ghz for the g3258 is stable for constant use and that it slowly destroys your chip. But i do know there are some lucky chips out there that achieve this easily, but yer could you post it so i can tell you if you should lower clock or if it is fine, otherwise your chip will degrade slowly into an Intel Core Duo processor quality ... and they're 10 years old now lol!

Also with the 970/390 yes you defitnly will on CS:GO/LoL easily achieve 150-200fps + but the question you want to ask is why you need that value? 90% of gaming monitors are 1080p and 60hz. 60hz means you can only see 60fps maximum. Your system can provide more than 60fps though, but it is pointless. As sometimes it causes tearing in the screen which is shown below:

I have this issue in CS:GO when i forget to turn v-sync on. V-Sync, lowers the frame rates (fps) to 59/60hz or whatever your set it.
Also leaving it on when you only have a 60fps monitor is just a waste and causing unnecessary heat to your system.

Yes you can get some monitors i.e. 144hz, 165hz now and yes there is ONE 200hz monitor so far. Meaning your system can produce fps up to 144fps, 165fps and 200fps.
Link to the 200hz monitor: https://www.scan.co.uk/products/35-acer-predator-z35-curved-144hz-(200hz-oc)-nvidia-g-sync-v2-gaming-monitor-va-2560x1080-4ms-100m1-

So to answer your question again.
You will achieve it on max/near-max 1080p on cs:go at 150-200fps + but remember to put v-sync on as you don't need to have that fps beause of tear-screening.

Hope that helps

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