Is core i5 6400t good for destiny 2???

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I’m running a gaming rig with 8gb ddr4 2tb hard drive space an r7 240 4gb gpu and a liquid cooled celeron g3620. I play destiny 2 with lots of lag and am gonna upgrade my cpu anyway but is an i5 6400t good for destiny 2??? It’s the best cpu I can afford so obviously anything better is out of the question
 
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It wouldn't be a waste to get the i5 6400T, though even with the CPU upgrade performance might not be all that great. At best, getting the i5 will make your framerates more consistent and eliminate outright freezes due to the game needing more than 2 CPU threads.
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Your problem is more likely to be your graphics card than the CPU, the R7 240 is a very low end graphics card that gets outdone by a lot of modern integrated graphics solutions. The Celeron also probably isn't helping as most modern titles really need 4 threads to run well, but just getting an i5 isn't likely to completely solve your problem with the game.
 
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Let me clarify the graphics are not laggy the game will occasionally stand still for a few seconds to minutes and my cpu will be running at 100% load but I can run the game on “highest “ graphics mode and it looks great and plays well as far as graphics go
You think I should go with the i5???or is it a waste of money???


 
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It wouldn't be a waste to get the i5 6400T, though even with the CPU upgrade performance might not be all that great. At best, getting the i5 will make your framerates more consistent and eliminate outright freezes due to the game needing more than 2 CPU threads.
 
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There is no such processor as the Celeron G3620. And liquid cooled? Why in the world would anyone ever do that.

Can you confirm what processor you have exactly, because you may well not be able to put an i5-6400T into that motherboard. If its a Pentium G3260 that i5 might actually play games SLOWER, as its significantly lower clocked. Its really not an upgrade at all.

There is no way Destiny 2 is playing well at the highest settings on a R7 240, I'd be surprised if you are getting anywhere near 30fps with that GPU on the highest settings, its a dog.
 
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Lol I have a g3920 not 3620! Also would a i3 6100 be a good less expensive fix to my cpu issue?




 
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The i3 would give you 4 threads but still only 2 physical cores, but they would be clocked a lot higher than the 6400T. For many games, the higher clocks with less physical cores would offer better performance. Having said that performance would still be bad because of that R7 240.
 
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Ok makes more sense.

The i3-6100 and i5-6400t are not big updates to what you have. They will give you some performance increase but the clock speed of the 6400t is still lower than even your Celeron, so you will gain in some ways and lose in others.

Did you go out and get a water cooler for it, or was it something you bought like that? that was a huge waste of money, that could have been spent on a high clocked i5.

Honestly if you want a noticeable bump in gaming performance you need an i5-6500 or i5-6600.

Either way your GPU is still very weak, you should be running on low settings.
 
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Ok so just to be sure I’m understanding aside from the r7 240 4gb the i3 6100 is worth it and will play destiny 2 better???and help with the freezing????


 
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It would give you 4 threads, which will probably help with the stutters and freezes if only because most modern games need at least 4 threads to run properly. Having said that, other things can be causing stutters. If you're running lots of stuff in the background, you're probably maxing out your 8GB of RAM and that can cause freezes and stutters as well.
 
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Good to know I I’ll grab some more ram too just to be on the safe side. But I’m definitely going get the i3! Wish me luck quotemsg=20738852,0,477114]It would give you 4 threads, which will probably help with the stutters and freezes if only because most modern games need at least 4 threads to run properly. Having said that, other things can be causing stutters. If you're running lots of stuff in the background, you're probably maxing out your 8GB of RAM and that can cause freezes and stutters as well. [/quotemsg]

 
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Given the price of RAM right now, I wouldn't bother upgrading it unless you know for sure that you are running low on it. If you have extra money for RAM, you really should spend it on a better graphics card, the R7 240 is still not going to perform all that well even with a CPU upgrade.
 
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You really need both a CPU and a GPU upgrade to get the game running well. You need at least 4 CPU threads to prevent stuttering and freezes due to lack of CPU threads and you need a better GPU to actually get an acceptable framerate eg. maintaining more than 30FPS. You can't fix both problems with only one upgrade.
 
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Again, the i5-6400t is a waste of time for you, while it has twice the cores its low clocked.

Your freezing is a few things, first drop your settings to as low as possible and see if the game still performs the same (freezing).

Do you have things running in the background taking up CPU cycles?

If we do get to a processor upgrade you REALLY need to save up some more and get an i5-6500 or 6600, anything less is a waste of time.
 
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Maybe I should be specific. I’m not caring too much about frame rates just the studdering. Knowing that is the i3 enough?uotemsg=20738891,0,477114]


You really need both a CPU and a GPU upgrade to get the game running well. You need at least 4 CPU threads to prevent stuttering and freezes due to lack of CPU threads and you need a better GPU to actually get an acceptable framerate eg. maintaining more than 30FPS. You can't fix both problems with only one upgrade. [/quotemsg]

 
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I have the money for a 6500. That’ll work as far as the cpu upgrade right???


 
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Have you tried running any performance monitoring software? Would just like to quantify your issues. Whats your GPU Useage, whats your FPS.

MSI afterburner has Riva Statistics tuner which is good for this, it will give you some good charts you can share.

Either way as I said the clock speed of the 6400t is still too low.
 
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According to the game I’m running it at quote “highest” video settings and I’m using approximately 3 out of 4gb vram And 100%both cores and 30 something total ram between background tasks and destiny 2


 
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