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Does a decent upgrade exist for my old mobo?

Tokenbrit

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Hi

I have a computer which is a few years old really struggling in Planetside.

The motherboard is an Asus M4A79XTD EVO, and the CPU is a Phenom II x4 955. Is there any CPU available that will go in this motherboard and give a decent (like 50% plus) improvement?

I have 8gb RAM and a Radeon 7850 so I doubt either of those are the problem.

Really can't be bothered to change the mobo........

Thanks
Dave
 
A Phenom II X6 would be an upgrade but 50% improvement is unlikely. Have you overclocked your X4 955? If not that should help quite a bit.

I used to run a Phenom II X4 940 @ 3.5Ghz. Even with the overclock it would bottleneck my GTX480.

You'd be best to save your cash and upgrade both CPU and mobo when you can.

See this thread here:

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18497496

Same GPU bottlenecked, and that's with a i3 3220.
 
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Thanks for the reply, it isn't especially a money problem its a CBA problem.

If I did get a new CPU/mobo and wanted something mid range now spending maybe £250 how much faster could I get?
 
If you wanted to stay with AMD you could get the FX8350 and a motherboard for £250 easily. But an I5 is meant to be the better route for gaming
 
The problem with Planetside is that it is very poorly optimised for multiple threads, with my 960T @ x6 and 4ghz I still have a cpu bottleneck for my 5870, the only solution for Planetside is a move over to Intel.

I am able to cope in the game with occasional dips into the low 30's @1200p on heavy battles. Have you tried any of the user config edits that might improve your fps like limiting render distance to 1000m and disabling shadows? There is plenty of info on Google about this.
 
Kerazee said:
The problem with Planetside is that it is very poorly optimised for multiple threads, with my 960T @ x6 and 4ghz I still have a cpu bottleneck for my 5870, the only solution for Planetside is a move over to Intel.

I am able to cope in the game with occasional dips into the low 30's @1200p on heavy battles. Have you tried any of the user config edits that might improve your fps like limiting render distance to 1000m and disabling shadows? There is plenty of info on Google about this.
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Hi

I have turned shadows off etc. but I am not sure how much these features are CPU bound anyway?

I can easily go below 30FPS in a big fight and sometimes below 20.

Unfortunately as well my CPU hits 75c under load on air, so I am not very keen to try and OC it.

It seems I may have to move to a new Intel system.

Many thanks.
 
Re high temps...Have you a decent case with good air flow? Using stock heatsink? I don't think I ever reach mid 60's under duress on an oc'd 965 at 1.485 volts.

los said:
If you wanted to stay with AMD you could get the FX8350 and a motherboard for £250 easily. But an I5 is meant to be the better route for gaming
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I've the same mobo & am sick as a pig I can't throw an 8350 in as it would make the upgrade path much easier to decide. I can't say I'd build a system based on one game tho but I've never played planetside.

I keep deciding myself that I'm going to upgrade from my 965/same mobo & had my mind made up about jumping ship to Intel & going for an i5-3570k. Afterall it runs at a lower wattage & seems to be better in games over the 8350.

But is the difference when gaming with a 3570 over an 8350 really noticeable in the real world? The thing that's holding me off deciding between the two is that the 8350 seems to be faster in other applications, so because the 3570 games better does that really mean it's actually faster? Or is the 8350 faster but just currently poorly written for gamewise.

With AMD apparently going into next gen consoles I'm wondering if games will be better written to make full use of all cores when being ported over (etc) to the pc & I wonder if the 8350 will then leave the 3570 standing in near-future titles. I've really no idea but it's making deciding hard!

I'm thinking of going back to how it was years ago & just buying a nice sideboard for the living room..seems less complicated....(hmm..mahogany or oak?)
 
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