I'm downsizing my equipment from overclocked i5 2500k territory to something much much less. I will require a motherboard capable of overclocking, a CPU (hopefully a known overclocking model) and RAM suitable for.. well overclocking.
My budget is £50 to £80 second hand for all three components.
...and Go!
Assumptions:
1) I will be playing at low res, with low graphics... i just want to keep playing the game I don't need the eye candy as such.. but FPS is the winner here.
2) I already have other components like PSU/GPU/case/HDD etc.
3) Planetside 2 will need at least a quad core to run reasonably well.. it's very CPU intensive.
4) My objective is to keep playing the game rather than having to stop playing it, so budget is key.
5) Assume 4GB RAM unless
Other things to consider:
I have a GTX 480 I could reuse if necessary, but will sell and downsize to something else if a CPU is massively holding it back.
I have a basic Athlon x2 @ 2.6Ghz I could use.. but I don't think this will be enough CPU power??? (Would a 3.0 or 3.1Ghz X2 chip be enough to power a 6670 or similar in this game?
My budget is £50 to £80 second hand for all three components.
...and Go!
Assumptions:
1) I will be playing at low res, with low graphics... i just want to keep playing the game I don't need the eye candy as such.. but FPS is the winner here.
2) I already have other components like PSU/GPU/case/HDD etc.
3) Planetside 2 will need at least a quad core to run reasonably well.. it's very CPU intensive.
4) My objective is to keep playing the game rather than having to stop playing it, so budget is key.
5) Assume 4GB RAM unless
Other things to consider:
I have a GTX 480 I could reuse if necessary, but will sell and downsize to something else if a CPU is massively holding it back.
I have a basic Athlon x2 @ 2.6Ghz I could use.. but I don't think this will be enough CPU power??? (Would a 3.0 or 3.1Ghz X2 chip be enough to power a 6670 or similar in this game?
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