Morning,
I recently bought battlefield 3 with the hopes of it running semi decent on my XPS laptop (i7 core and nvidia 440M) but even on medium when stuff is crazy my FPS just drops to the floor. I was wondering if my old gaming PC can be given new life and possibly run BF3.
Senerio:
Old Gaming PC with the following specs:
Proc: AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition Deneb 3.4GHz 4 x 512KB L2 Cache 6MB L3 Cache Socket AM3 125W Quad-Core
RAM: G.SKILL 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 (PC3 10666)
Motherboard: GIGABYTE GA-MA770T-UD3P AM3 AMD 770 ATX AMD Motherboard
Video Card: Nvidia 8800 GTS
So with the main specs named I was wondering if I can just upgrade the video card I know that my processor will be the bottleneck but Im not sure how bad of a bottle neck, also how bad is my RAM, would it need upgrading?
Now for the catch... If possible Id like to purchase a video card from Dell.com why? Id like not to dish out $3-400 for a card at once but I wouldn't have an issue paying it over 3 months. If possbile id like to get it from dell but maybe you might know whats best.
I was looking at the GEFORCE GTX570 HD but its 400ish and not know if thats what i need to run BF3 with no issues, or if another card (bang for your buck) would be suitable.
Links if desired:
Motherboard
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128392
Proc
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103727
RAM
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231189
I recently bought battlefield 3 with the hopes of it running semi decent on my XPS laptop (i7 core and nvidia 440M) but even on medium when stuff is crazy my FPS just drops to the floor. I was wondering if my old gaming PC can be given new life and possibly run BF3.
Senerio:
Old Gaming PC with the following specs:
Proc: AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition Deneb 3.4GHz 4 x 512KB L2 Cache 6MB L3 Cache Socket AM3 125W Quad-Core
RAM: G.SKILL 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 (PC3 10666)
Motherboard: GIGABYTE GA-MA770T-UD3P AM3 AMD 770 ATX AMD Motherboard
Video Card: Nvidia 8800 GTS
So with the main specs named I was wondering if I can just upgrade the video card I know that my processor will be the bottleneck but Im not sure how bad of a bottle neck, also how bad is my RAM, would it need upgrading?
Now for the catch... If possible Id like to purchase a video card from Dell.com why? Id like not to dish out $3-400 for a card at once but I wouldn't have an issue paying it over 3 months. If possbile id like to get it from dell but maybe you might know whats best.
I was looking at the GEFORCE GTX570 HD but its 400ish and not know if thats what i need to run BF3 with no issues, or if another card (bang for your buck) would be suitable.
Links if desired:
Motherboard
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128392
Proc
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103727
RAM
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231189