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Intel oor AMD upgrade?

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Fair enough.

Your cpu is acctually still pretty decent for gaming

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/cpus/2011/10/31/the-be...

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/cpus/2011/10/31/the-be...


http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...

you can go for a 7870.

or a 7850 if you wanna save some money

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...

Get a 7870. and maybie later down the track upgrade to a i5 and you got yourself a decent cpu.

Because in gaming its mainly about gpus esspically at high resolution

So imo get a 7870 and later down the road throw in a i5

There are quite a few games now which do well on a processor that can handle 4 threads simultaneously and in future the number would increase.There the dual core pentiums would be at disadvantage.The sandy bridge processors are quite sensitive to frequency as well so lower clock would also have a bit lower performance in gaming even at FHD.You can either hold on to your current processor and upgrade later with haswell processorst.Else you can get an i5 3470 or alike maybe with a better motherboard with more features if you like.I would say if you can hold then stick to your current processor and upgrade to a more capable processor later.The investment would be worth it.

drinvis said:
There are quite a few games now which do well on a processor that can handle 4 threads simultaneously and in future the number would increase.There the dual core pentiums would be at disadvantage.The sandy bridge processors are quite sensitive to frequency as well so lower clock would also have a bit lower performance in gaming even at FHD.You can either hold on to your current processor and upgrade later with haswell processorst.Else you can get an i5 3470 or alike maybe with a better motherboard with more features if you like.I would say if you can hold then stick to your current processor and upgrade to a more capable processor later.The investment would be worth it.


haswell requires the new 1050 socket mobo aswell? will i have enough money
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