Hi guys so I have been reading here about PC setups but I'm in a Catch 22 situation my setup is I5 2310 a gigabytes Lga1155 basic board 2x4 gig ram ddr3 r9 270x 4gig gpu 520w bronze psu and a ssd 256gig I want to play bf1 but my PC is slowing me down upgrade this rig or swap out for new generation gear? If you need the mobo specs I will have them tonight PC was built in 2010 for diablo3 loll
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xDeuiii
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Yeah, the CPU is old. Get a new one, preferably 5th-6th gen. Upgrade your GPU too, get a 1060 if you can afford or go with a 1050 for a cheaper alternative. And lastly, clean up your PC, take it out, dust it, make a fresh install of Windows and you're good to go.
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My advice is to go all in for new generation parts. Your old mobo, psu and ram and just waiting to get replaced. If you replace it all at once with the aforementioned cup and gpu aswell as a new LGA 1150 or 1151 motherboard. And some fancy ddr4 ram (or just 2100 or even 1600hz ddr3 ram is fine).
guanyu210379
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If you own i7 2600k, you can still keep your processor and upgrade only the GPU.
But since you are only on i3, I would also recommend going all out for newer parts (1150 or 1151 platform depends on the prices, where you live, and your budget).
But since you are only on i3, I would also recommend going all out for newer parts (1150 or 1151 platform depends on the prices, where you live, and your budget).
Change sockets?[qsuotemsg=18944637,0,2200337]Yeah, the CPU is old. Get a new one, preferably 5th-6th gen. Upgrade your GPU too, get a 1060 if you can afford or go with a 1050 for a cheaper alternative. And lastly, clean up your PC, take it out, dust it, make a fresh install of Windows and you're good to go.[/quotemsg]
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I think the problem with your BF1 performance is more on the GPU side than with the CPU. Not that there might not be a CPU issue, but CPU-wise BF1 makes even Skylake i5 & i7 chips struggle.
http://www.techspot.com/review/1267-battlefield-1-benchmarks/page2.html: Even with an i7-6700K, they only managed to get to 45FPS with an R9 270X @ 1080p resolutions. Based on how the CPUs tested during the beta (https://forums.anandtech.com/threads/battlefield-1-beta-cpu-scaling-performance.2485172/), I could see that dropping down to maybe 30FPS.
In other words, you'd see maybe a 30-33% increase maximum by going to a Skylake build. In contrast, replacing your R9 270X with an RX 480 or GTX 1060 (6GB model) would apparently double your performance...more than enough to be able to hit 60FPS @ 1080p resolutions. That would run you maybe $250 USD tops, a much cheaper upgrade than replacing your system & starting over from scratch.
If you're still worried about the CPU, though, let us know what motherboard it is. Right now, you still have a very good CPU -- 2nd-tier on the list (http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/cpu-hierarchy,4312.html), right behind the Ivy Bridge/Haswell/Skylake core i5 & i7 chips (& tied with AMD's 8-core FX line). That's not bad for a 5-year-old design. But if you're worried about your CPU horsepower, & your motherboard can handle it, I would strongly recommend getting one of the Sandy Bridge (or Ivy Bridge, if it will work) i7 chips.
http://www.techspot.com/review/1267-battlefield-1-benchmarks/page2.html: Even with an i7-6700K, they only managed to get to 45FPS with an R9 270X @ 1080p resolutions. Based on how the CPUs tested during the beta (https://forums.anandtech.com/threads/battlefield-1-beta-cpu-scaling-performance.2485172/), I could see that dropping down to maybe 30FPS.
In other words, you'd see maybe a 30-33% increase maximum by going to a Skylake build. In contrast, replacing your R9 270X with an RX 480 or GTX 1060 (6GB model) would apparently double your performance...more than enough to be able to hit 60FPS @ 1080p resolutions. That would run you maybe $250 USD tops, a much cheaper upgrade than replacing your system & starting over from scratch.
If you're still worried about the CPU, though, let us know what motherboard it is. Right now, you still have a very good CPU -- 2nd-tier on the list (http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/cpu-hierarchy,4312.html), right behind the Ivy Bridge/Haswell/Skylake core i5 & i7 chips (& tied with AMD's 8-core FX line). That's not bad for a 5-year-old design. But if you're worried about your CPU horsepower, & your motherboard can handle it, I would strongly recommend getting one of the Sandy Bridge (or Ivy Bridge, if it will work) i7 chips.
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Perfect.
http://www.gigabyte.com/support-downloads/cpu-support-popup.aspx?pid=3815
As long as you update to version F9 of the BIOS, your board will handle the Ivy Bridge chips easily. So replacing your i5-2310 with an i5-3570K or i7-3770K will help with the performance.
The loading times, however, might be tied more into where the game is stored. If you have an older 5,400RPM hard drive, it's going to load up slower than if you have a 7,200RPM hard drive, & using an SSD might help even more more.
http://www.gigabyte.com/support-downloads/cpu-support-popup.aspx?pid=3815
As long as you update to version F9 of the BIOS, your board will handle the Ivy Bridge chips easily. So replacing your i5-2310 with an i5-3570K or i7-3770K will help with the performance.
The loading times, however, might be tied more into where the game is stored. If you have an older 5,400RPM hard drive, it's going to load up slower than if you have a 7,200RPM hard drive, & using an SSD might help even more more.
I have my games and windows 7 on my ssd drive and no I never updated my bios I don't even know how ... I ordered a Gtx 1060 yesterday on ncix.com is there a walk-through for bios updates and chipset updates? I realised yesterday my PC was running on only 4gig of ram I had the other ram in a different channel ... Now it responses better but still long loading times probly ram? Might need 16 total gigs because it's ddr3 1600's
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