New amd grapics card or convert everything to intel

hectic_1

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My question is that I have an amd mother board and an amd 6core cpu and I'm using a 960gtx g1 2G graphics card. I brought this with out knowing that amd cpus don't work that well with nivida so I get a lot of bottle neck in games like arma 2 and 3 and ect. So my question is should I get a new Intel cpu and mouther bored or buy a new amd graphics card?
 
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upgrading to the 8350 would do nothing for you in that game


you want an intel cpu for arma, ideally an i5
Thats not how it works.
Brands mean nothing in regards to processors working with graphics cards. You are not losing performance because you have AMD+Nvidia, thats utterly wrong.

The two games you listed are extremely heavy on processors, even high end. You dont have a great processor, so that is your issue, not brands.
 

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But all my friends run arma better with intel cpus so should I get the 8core amd get an I5 or I7 I mean my mate has a sapphire with dx 11 and a I3 cpu and gets more fps and runs alot smother and all I get is hard core bottle neck on a server with about 40/40 at like 15fps so what should I up grade
 

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upgrading to the 8350 would do nothing for you in that game


you want an intel cpu for arma, ideally an i5
 
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most games need strong cores, but not that many cores, so the best CPU is the one with the strongest "per core" performance, and with 4 of them

look at this list:
https://www.cpubenchmark.net/singleThread.html

those are all CPUs ranked on a single core's performance. the BEST chip from AMD is the X4 845 at around 1,776. my old i5-3570k is at 2,029 and i don't even game. the best AMD for your board is probably FX-4350 which hits 1,516 unless you want to deal with the FX-9590 but it only gets you to 1,721.

for games, it's per-core performance and 4 of those cores.

for other tasks, it's more cores or better onboard graphics, which is what AMD has been focusing on