A bit of mild overclocking would sure help out that out. This is just what I would do though.
If one day he was to play another game instead of DayZ he would be set, rather than having to upgrade again.
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A bit of mild overclocking would sure help out that out. This is just what I would do though.
If one day he was to play another game instead of DayZ he would be set, rather than having to upgrade again.
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He's always going to need to upgrade though, that FX4100 is terrible, it was terrible when it launched, and it's terrible today. An FX4100 gets beaten by a Phenom II X4 965, stock versus stock, and a Phenom II X4 965 is years old now.
A 270 isn't suddenly going to stop performing well enough, there's nothing really happening CPU wise. An i5 4690K, followed through with a GPU upgrade when 20nm or whatever lands is surely a better route? As a 970's going to get bottlenecked by an FX4100 (I mean seriously, it's terrible)
An i5 4690K offers massively more performance potential than an FX4100.
You could take an FX4100 back exactly 6 years, and Intels offerings at the time would still beat it.
A 270 isn't suddenly going to stop performing well enough, there's nothing really happening CPU wise. An i5 4690K, followed through with a GPU upgrade when 20nm or whatever lands is surely a better route? As a 970's going to get bottlenecked by an FX4100 (I mean seriously, it's terrible)
An i5 4690K offers massively more performance potential than an FX4100.
You could take an FX4100 back exactly 6 years, and Intels offerings at the time would still beat it.
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Yes the FX4100 is a terrible CPU, yes it will bottleneck a 970 and obviously and Intel platform offers more performance.
But if the OP were to buy an after market cooler and get a decent OC on on his FX4100, this would mitgate some of these problems. Obviously it would never match an intel system, but he would still be pulling decent frames in the majority of games, especially those which are more GPU dependant.
As I said, this is just the route I would take as I quite the process of overclocking and the reason i went out and bought a G3258 over a 4690K.
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He's always going to have to upgrade his CPU. There's nothing happening on the CPU front major. But on the GPU front we've stagnated since Q4 2011, still on the same 28nm, that will change in 2015, and we should have some drastically higher performing GPU's.
It's better to upgrade the part which isn't going to improve loads, than buy a part which will.
And I'd sooner buy an FX4300 than a G3258
It's better to upgrade the part which isn't going to improve loads, than buy a part which will.
And I'd sooner buy an FX4300 than a G3258
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Wasn't Davetree saying he managed to get decent overclocks on his FX8320 on that board?? So something like an FX8320E or FX6300 is an option,although with a £300 budget,you could get a Core i5 or Xeon E3. However,at that point the OP will probably be GPU limited too.
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Davetree, rofl.
He managed like 4.4GHZ or something. But I just wouldn't risk it, I barely risk touching the budget ZXX stuff for anything more than 4GHZ.
Regardless of what he does with his GPU, that CPU has got to go.
He managed like 4.4GHZ or something. But I just wouldn't risk it, I barely risk touching the budget ZXX stuff for anything more than 4GHZ.
Regardless of what he does with his GPU, that CPU has got to go.
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Yes, I asked this when the SSD's went on offer.
They were playing around with NAND suppliers and have now settled on one so the reported 450mbps/450mbps is an actual unlike before so is now a good choice once again.
I also dont believe my 270X needs an upgrade already, i haven't had it for long, and its about twice as powerful than my last card, but i haven't seen any performance improvements.
I think I wil go for the devils canyon package and finally unleash some power from my GPU...
thanks for all your help
EDIT: I am currently running an OC already which is at 4.3GHz, and don't wanna push it much further than that.
I think I wil go for the devils canyon package and finally unleash some power from my GPU...
thanks for all your help
EDIT: I am currently running an OC already which is at 4.3GHz, and don't wanna push it much further than that.
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The CPU is weak, overclocking isn't going to help much as the single core performance is quite poor (The improvement in some games won't be noticed at all). An upgrade across to Intel would make sense if the budget can stretch.
Not sure why people are suggesting upgrading to a 8320/8350 when the board is a budget board (the CPU is prone to overheating the VRM's) and it's a dead socket!
I also dont believe my 270X needs an upgrade already, i haven't had it for long, and its about twice as powerful than my last card, but i haven't seen any performance improvements.
I think I wil go for the devils canyon package and finally unleash some power from my GPU...
thanks for all your help
Good idea.
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Not sure why people are suggesting upgrading to a 8320/8350 when the board is a budget board (the CPU is prone to overheating the VRM's) and it's a dead socket!
Funnily enough that single 700 series board is actually quite solid- look at the user reviews on overclock.net and other forums. I wouldn't overclock on it despite one of the users saying it is fine here - plus read what I said more carefully - I said the FX8320E which has a 95W TDP. With another 4GB of RAM it would set the OP back closer to £100 after ditching the FX4100.
But regarding the G3258 - its not a CPU I would buy,but it does not do too badly in ARMAIII if you get a decent sample which can overclock well.
However,ARMAIII and DayZ has other problems too,ie,on the server side and even with Intel setups can have terribad performance. It really is a travesty that a FPS game with such a poorly optimised engine still exists in 2014.
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Looking at the GameGPU review from March this year:
http://i.imgur.com/cyMbQyD.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/poFMUWh.jpg
I thought so - even with a 4.9GHZ Core i7 3970X you are hitting a massive GPU bottleneck even at 1920X1080.
The Enfusion engine seems to be no better than the previous one used which was borrowed from one of the ARMA games.
A Core i5 4670K is not massively faster than a Core i3 4330.
http://i.imgur.com/cyMbQyD.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/poFMUWh.jpg
I thought so - even with a 4.9GHZ Core i7 3970X you are hitting a massive GPU bottleneck even at 1920X1080.
The Enfusion engine seems to be no better than the previous one used which was borrowed from one of the ARMA games.
A Core i5 4670K is not massively faster than a Core i3 4330.
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It's not just all about frame rates though.
You play DayZ on a Core i3 3220, then go play it on the 1230 V2 and it's a different game.
You play DayZ on a Core i3 3220, then go play it on the 1230 V2 and it's a different game.