I talked with a friend and posted in a couple of forums, but I'm looking for a... third opinion I guess?
I got my PC in 2011. When I bought it, I was on a tight budget, so I had a friend help me pick out a pre-built PC and upgrade a few parts instead of trying to build a behemoth from scratch in attempts to get me on a decent rig that would last me a few years.
It's been a few years.
I can still run a lot of games on High/Ultra decently like Skyrim, MGS: Ground Zeroes and Battlefield 4 (although unsurprisingly BF4 still gave me a lot of problems) but sometimes my frame rate suffers, and I like to stream and record game play (Fraps), and with my current setup that's becoming increasingly hard. I also spend a decent amount of time editing videos, so anything that would make that process smother would be great. Besides the video card and power supply I bought alongside my PC, the only thing I have upgraded since I got it was my RAM (I'm currently at 8GB).
Quick breakdown of my parts (Heyoooo):
AMD Athlon II X2 255 Processor ~3.1GHz
ATI Radeon HD 5670
8GB RAM
Running Windows 7 64bit.
I'm not trying to build Skynet, I just want to upgrade (if possible) to comfortably play some of the newer titles coming out (Fallout 4, Star Wars Battlefront, etc.), and to last me another couple of years. My budget isn't as tight as it was when I got my PC (around $300, but I'll bump it up a bit if needed), but I'm about to move into a new place and just started a new job, so keeping things at a decent price is ideal until a little down the line, when I want to do my first high-end build from scratch.
With some help, I am now debating on getting the Intel Core i5-4440 and possibly the Radeon R9 290, but I'm not sure how well my video card stands up by today's standards (i.e. how I would perform if I just upgraded the processor), and I know next to nothing about processors.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
I got my PC in 2011. When I bought it, I was on a tight budget, so I had a friend help me pick out a pre-built PC and upgrade a few parts instead of trying to build a behemoth from scratch in attempts to get me on a decent rig that would last me a few years.
It's been a few years.
I can still run a lot of games on High/Ultra decently like Skyrim, MGS: Ground Zeroes and Battlefield 4 (although unsurprisingly BF4 still gave me a lot of problems) but sometimes my frame rate suffers, and I like to stream and record game play (Fraps), and with my current setup that's becoming increasingly hard. I also spend a decent amount of time editing videos, so anything that would make that process smother would be great. Besides the video card and power supply I bought alongside my PC, the only thing I have upgraded since I got it was my RAM (I'm currently at 8GB).
Quick breakdown of my parts (Heyoooo):
AMD Athlon II X2 255 Processor ~3.1GHz
ATI Radeon HD 5670
8GB RAM
Running Windows 7 64bit.
I'm not trying to build Skynet, I just want to upgrade (if possible) to comfortably play some of the newer titles coming out (Fallout 4, Star Wars Battlefront, etc.), and to last me another couple of years. My budget isn't as tight as it was when I got my PC (around $300, but I'll bump it up a bit if needed), but I'm about to move into a new place and just started a new job, so keeping things at a decent price is ideal until a little down the line, when I want to do my first high-end build from scratch.
With some help, I am now debating on getting the Intel Core i5-4440 and possibly the Radeon R9 290, but I'm not sure how well my video card stands up by today's standards (i.e. how I would perform if I just upgraded the processor), and I know next to nothing about processors.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
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