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Hello everyone.

I'm thinking of upgrading this budget build i did back in 2013.
Specs:
Intel Core i3-2120
8GB DDR3 1333MHz
GTX 650 Ti BOOST 2GB

I have about 250$ to spend on this. I'm thinking of swapping that i3 with a used i5-2500 and change the GPU to a GTX 1050Ti.

Will this be good enough for playing these games: Rise of Tomb Raider, Assassin's Creed Syndicate and Battlefield 1.

Any help and recommendations will be appreciated.
Thank you.
 
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Any i7 from that platform will do for battlefield 1 as it like to have more than 4 threads. It would be a nice combo with the gtx1050ti. Do watch out that you don't get a i7 2x00s because those run much slower than the normal ones.
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Hi,

Don't listen to the other guy suggesting you get a rx470 or even the gtx 1050Ti like you said, games such as Battlefield 1 are cpu bound.

My old system had a i5-750 and HD7950 (about the same as a gtx660) in it. With this PC I was unable to play Battlefield 1 at lowwest settings and 1080p above 30 fps. So to prove to people that the CPU was the problem I bought a GTX 1070 which gave me NO preformance boosts whatsoever, this is because the CPU couldn't handle the GPU.
Now I have a i5-7600K I haven't found a game that I can't run at max settings at 1080p bellow 100fps

So in conclusion I recomend that you upgrade your CPU to a 6th or 7th generation one and hold on to your GPU for a little while if you want to save some money.
 
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That'll be out of my budget and i don't wanna wait so long.

However, i don't completely agree with you on a 6th or 7th gen cpu being so necessary. The i5-750 is a pretty weak cpu so that makes some sense in the problem you were having with BF1. I remember those old Q9650 chips slightly outperforming that 1st gen i5. But i don't think that a 2nd gen i5 or i7 is the same case. One of my friends uses a i5-2400 with a GTX960 and he plays Battlefield 1 med-high 1080p with 50-60fps.

You directly jumped from a 1st gen i5 to a 7th gen without using anything in between so i don't think you really know that those older 2nd and 3rd gen chips aren't as bad as you think they are.
 
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Any i7 from that platform will do for battlefield 1 as it like to have more than 4 threads. It would be a nice combo with the gtx1050ti. Do watch out that you don't get a i7 2x00s because those run much slower than the normal ones.
 
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Well yeah, the i5-750 is trash, but the i7-2600 isn't. Next to a powerful CPU you still need a good graphics card. The game is both CPU and GPU intensive.

You're not going to last long in a forum if one if your first posts says ''Don't listen to that guy, he has no idea''.

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Also, the RX 470 4GB does 60+ fps on ultra in BF1:

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See how high the i7-2600(k) is in this list? Tell me I have no clue now.
 
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Also if you can oc the i7 2600k you can easily get it to 4.8 and it then wipes the floor with any new cpu at stock.
 
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So as far as I can see, would I be able to play battlefield easily with HD7870 and i7-920 ?
 
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1. Please don't hijack a thread
2. no unless you oc it a lot. The 920 at stock won't be able to keep up.
 
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