- Jun 11, 2014
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Hi all,
Setup:
Gigabyte GA-H81M-DS2V Mobo
Intel i3 4130 CPU
700w PSU
4 Gig DDR3 Ram
Radeon HD 5750
Short question: What is the best match for this CPU?
Long question:
So I've been trying to learn about all this stuff, and have been getting an idea from sites like "can you run it" and "game-debate". The reason I want to upgrade is my love for Alien Isolation, and want to to be able to play with everything to the max. According to those sites, the i3 4130 perfectly meets the recommended requirement, but the GPU falls very short with only 18% performance! I get to play it on 1360x768 with settings on high, and that seems to give me a nice frame-rate. Looking at their recommended setup, I need to get another 4 gig ram, and the R9-270 card seems to line up with the CPU with a fraction of "bottle-necking". My budget is very low, and really did not want to go upgrading CPU, and I can see those cards on ebay between £40-£50. Before I go purchase one, is there anything I should know?
I see lots of cards being paired with this CPU, but there's not much consistency, and i don't know how much those sites are accurate. (Hard to believe my present card only gives me 17%, which would make the integrated graphics so poor that I wonder why they bothered). Anyway...looking at other games like DOOM, I wanted to know if I would be able to play those with the new card, and to my dismay, the *minimum* requirement for DOOM is an i5 CPU! I downloaded the demo anyway, and expecting it to not even start-up, but it actually did. Settings were the lowest they could go, and the frame-rate was a bit juddery, but I flew through the demo and it was definitely playable (not so different to playing GTA or Farcry 3 on the PS3). Surely, that would be considerably more playable (satisfactorily so) once I have more ram and an R9-270 in my system? I don't think I need to bin my i3 just yet, and wanted to know if you think the R9-270(x) is a good match, and if it would complement an i5 or i7 when I get around to upgrading CPU in the future.
Sorry to be long-winded.
Any advice please?
Thanks
P.S. I only go for Radeon cards, don't ask me why :-/
Setup:
Gigabyte GA-H81M-DS2V Mobo
Intel i3 4130 CPU
700w PSU
4 Gig DDR3 Ram
Radeon HD 5750
Short question: What is the best match for this CPU?
Long question:
So I've been trying to learn about all this stuff, and have been getting an idea from sites like "can you run it" and "game-debate". The reason I want to upgrade is my love for Alien Isolation, and want to to be able to play with everything to the max. According to those sites, the i3 4130 perfectly meets the recommended requirement, but the GPU falls very short with only 18% performance! I get to play it on 1360x768 with settings on high, and that seems to give me a nice frame-rate. Looking at their recommended setup, I need to get another 4 gig ram, and the R9-270 card seems to line up with the CPU with a fraction of "bottle-necking". My budget is very low, and really did not want to go upgrading CPU, and I can see those cards on ebay between £40-£50. Before I go purchase one, is there anything I should know?
I see lots of cards being paired with this CPU, but there's not much consistency, and i don't know how much those sites are accurate. (Hard to believe my present card only gives me 17%, which would make the integrated graphics so poor that I wonder why they bothered). Anyway...looking at other games like DOOM, I wanted to know if I would be able to play those with the new card, and to my dismay, the *minimum* requirement for DOOM is an i5 CPU! I downloaded the demo anyway, and expecting it to not even start-up, but it actually did. Settings were the lowest they could go, and the frame-rate was a bit juddery, but I flew through the demo and it was definitely playable (not so different to playing GTA or Farcry 3 on the PS3). Surely, that would be considerably more playable (satisfactorily so) once I have more ram and an R9-270 in my system? I don't think I need to bin my i3 just yet, and wanted to know if you think the R9-270(x) is a good match, and if it would complement an i5 or i7 when I get around to upgrading CPU in the future.
Sorry to be long-winded.
Any advice please?
Thanks
P.S. I only go for Radeon cards, don't ask me why :-/
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