Which parts should I upgrade to be able to play Witcher 3?

Artium · Jul 29, 2016

After enjoying the first game in the series, I tried to play the second game. Unfortunately, even on minimal setting the game was too slow to play.

I am thinking about which part of the computer I will have to upgrade to be able to play it. I want to be able to play Witcher 2 on max settings and can compromise on playable low-medium for Witcher 3.

My current equipment:
CPU: Pentium Dual Core E6500
RAM: 4 GB
Graphics: PowerColor Radeon HD6570 2GB DDR3
PSU: Crossair VS350 (350 Watt)

Replacement of CPU or graphics or both is required, and might also need to upgrade PSU or buy new motherboard for the CPU. I will be happy to avoid that if possible.

I will be really glad to receive some advice on which parts are required for upgrade and some reference models of graphics cards and CPUs.

Thank you

boosted1g · Jul 29, 2016

Which parts to upgrade would be ALL OF THEM.

Your dual core Pentium is a socket 775 that was end of life in 2008. Meaning you are 6 CPU generations behind and the best CPU upgrade you could get is still far behind. Thus a new motherboard would be required as well as CPU.

Also your power supply will not support much of an improvement in GPU. At best it would support a GTX 750 (750ti would be pushing it).

Artium · Jul 30, 2016

boosted1g :

boosted1g, thank you for your reaply.

Now I understand that I should replace the mother board with the CPU. But is CPU upgrade required in this case?

Another question, I have another PC that I use as HTPC but I am willing to swap the functions of these two PCs. It has AMD Athlon 5350 with Radeon r3. In my experience, this processor is slower than the Pentium, but maybe upgrading it instead is more economic as I will not have to buy new motherboard?

wildcard1978 · Jul 30, 2016

both are at end of life man .

you need to meet the specs
Minimum System Requirements

•Intel CPU Core i5-2500K 3.3GHz
•AMD CPU Phenom II X4 940
•Nvidia GPU GeForce GTX 660
•AMD GPU Radeon HD 7870
•RAM 6GB
•OS 64-bit Windows 7 or 64-bit Windows 8 (8.1)
•DirectX 11
•HDD Space 40 GB

Recommended System Requirements

•Intel CPU Core i7 3770 3,4 GHz
•AMD CPU AMD FX-8350 4 GHz
•Nvidia GPU GeForce GTX 770
•AMD GPU Radeon R9 290
•RAM 8GB
•OS 64-bit Windows 7 or 64-bit Windows 8 (8.1)
•DirectX 11
•HDD Space 40 GB

wildcard1978 · Jul 30, 2016

so when ya build its you will problly need a new computer case aka tower cuase graphics cards are a lot bigger then they used to be specially in legth.
so you need a case
cpu
video card
ram
motherboard
and power supply that supports the video or video cards and cpu mainboards and other device ya run
and problly most deffinitly a new hard drive or solidstate drive.

since your cpus are so only the hard drive ya got are most likely ide or really old sata drive and if the sats drive are that old to ddegin with if sata ide just replace m anyway .
ya can always replace your monitor later if its vgs the got dvi to vgs conectors but modern video cards only support disply port hdmi dvi now a days and some cards don't even come with dvi some video cards are displayport or hdmi only so ya got to watch that as well .

wildcard1978 · Jul 30, 2016

gpu ya got some wiggle room I'm running a amd 9590 fx on a asrock 990 fx extreme 6 main board
with 16 gb of mushkin enhanced stealth ram at 2133 MHz ddr 3
with dual gtx 650 ti boosts 2gb gddr5 in sli
and runs preety smoth at max settings

wildcard1978 · Jul 30, 2016

my monitos a old Samsung 226bw and only supports up to 1680x 1050

wildcard1978 · Jul 30, 2016

so my wat at least a 760 900 seris or 1000 seris NVidia card. for more uummph if ya get a new monitor that supports 1080p 2k or 4k resolutions

maxalge · Jul 30, 2016

Artium :

boosted1g :

boosted1g, thank you for your reaply.

Now I understand that I should replace the mother board with the CPU. But is CPU upgrade required in this case?

Another question, I have another PC that I use as HTPC but I am willing to swap the functions of these two PCs. It has AMD Athlon 5350 with Radeon r3. In my experience, this processor is slower than the Pentium, but maybe upgrading it instead is more economic as I will not have to buy new motherboard?

if all you want to do is play witcher 3

you need a cpu upgrade, and a gpu upgrade

you need a core 2 quad

and a gtx 750 ti ( make sure it does not need a 6-pin pcie cable )

very playable at 720p

rhelmar1 · Jul 30, 2016

You need to upgrade pretty much everything.
With your current setup you could probably run the game 25 fps on the lowest possible settings and resolution (just an estimate). But you would get heavy stuttering, and frame drops.

What settings would you like to be playing on?
The lowest I would go is an i3 6100 with a gtx 750ti.
That would give you about 40 fps on a mixture of low and medium settings.
This is what that upgrade would cost you:
http://pcpartpicker.com/list/wqxk6X

Maxing the game out whith 60fps would require at least an rx 480 and an i5 6500.
Price:
http://pcpartpicker.com/list/pZkRkT

The only problem with the 480 is availability, It's either sold out, or the prices are way higher than they should because of the low stock. You will probably have to wait for a bit before you can buy one. Another option os to get an rx 470 that is rumored to come out on the 4th of August. It's gonna cost 150$ and will be able to run games at high settings with 60 fps.

wildcard1978 · Jul 30, 2016

I stay away from the 490 x cards least till they fix their sporatic power droaw issue they acctualy lost their pci express support legally since they drawing to much power from the pci bus they even frying and damaging some mainboards .
and its pretty bad seen tons of pres releases they not meet pcie expres certifications

boosted1g · Jul 31, 2016

Artium :

An Athlon 5350 is just as old and there is no upgrade available that is even going to come close to what you need for bare minimum.

Medium end in the 3-4 year old range is doable, but your hardware is low end from almost 10 years ago.
Pretty much the only hardware that could POSSIBLY be reused (and even at that I am skeptical) is your hard drive and your computer case.

wildcard1978 · Jul 31, 2016

boosted1g :

Artium :

An Athlon 5350 is just as old and there is no upgrade available that is even going to come close to what you need for bare minimum.

Medium end in the 3-4 year old range is doable, but your hardware is low end from almost 10 years ago.
Pretty much the only hardware that could POSSIBLY be reused (and even at that I am skeptical) is your hard drive and your computer case.

exactly refer to my above post for recommened specs and abosolute minimum specs

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