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can i get away with this on bf4?

Trilogy

Trilogy

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hello
i'm looking to buy battlefield 4! been looking at the min requirements and my rig is a bit old. will a q6600 run it well enough? looking at a better video card too is the cpu going to handle a gtx 660?

my rig at the moment is
q6600 @ 3.5
8 gig of ddr 3
nvidia gts 450

i've got about 400 quid to spend if it has to bee upgrade time?
 
My concern is that bf 4 multiplayer is quite CPU heavy and even with a GPU upgrade, your CPU might struggle at times.

*Edit* Over budget by VAT. My browser isnt liking me atm. *edit*



Or sell what you can and upgrade the 6300 to a 8320.

Before people start gasping at not specing a seasonic PSU, these Powerzone BeQuiet ones are made by FSP and this one is fully modular!
 
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i think i'm going to buy this along with the game and a new harddrive budget blown! thankyou for ur help

Gainward GeForce GTX 660 Golden Sample 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card
 
With your current budget and need for a CPU + GPU + powersupply (likely a motherboard too), an AMD processor is your best bet. To be honest a 6300 will suit you well for BF4, in my head its about the same clock for clock as your current CPU but obviously would clock much higher and has more cores. Would avoid GPUs with 2gb of VRAM or less.
 
I can see you want to keep your parts and spend as little as you can... so you should!

I have indeed seen good reports on the BF4 forums from people with your CPU!

The biggest contributing factor to gaming performance is obviously the GPU. With your CPU and PSU I think a 7870 Tahiti would pair nicely. Might be a little overkill but I have seen them floating around for £130 so why not and why any other GPU for the same price or less.

With a 19 inch monitor your resolution will not be that high, and with multiplayer your CPU might ask you to lower settings just a little but slot one of those in and I reckon you would be good to go. Have been running on one myself up until yesterday and along with the rest of the rig in my sig was getting around 60fps all ultra... 2 msaa.
 
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For minimal running a 7850 is ok, a 7950 or better is a good idea for higher settings. A 660 would be a poor choice.
 
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