CPU Bottleneck?

Sgt.Oddball · 12 Mar 2014 at 22:28

Hi,
I'm after some advice. (PC newb)

Last year I bought a prebuilt PC to enter into the world of PC gaming. Its been pretty good in most games but recently I have been playing DayZ standalone and have been seeing some pretty terrible frame rate in the towns.
I've read up on the forums and apparently the game is very CPU intensive. Is this likely to be my problem? I'm hoping it should be ok to upgrade without spending too much as its not that old.

Budget ~£200

Current Spec:

Gigabyte F2A85X-D3H
AMD A85600K Black
AMD Radeon HD7870
8GB (2x4) DDR3 1600
Standard cooling

Any advice greatly appreciated :cool:

Sgt.Oddball · 12 Mar 2014 at 22:38

Yes, I expect a drop in towns. I get 30 out of town and <15 in town at the moment.
How much improvement would the i5 give approximately?

Sgt.Oddball · 12 Mar 2014 at 23:21

I appreciate the time taken. I guess I am on the right line then about the CPU being the problem?

Sgt.Oddball · 13 Mar 2014 at 14:00

So a new motherboard and intel chip required.
What's the recommendations? ~£400
And no, I'm not daft enough to expect miracles with DayZ SA.

Sgt.Oddball · 13 Mar 2014 at 20:10

I would prefer to buy new. Im thinking buy the best MB and CPU I can for now and I could upgrade the card at a later date.

Sgt.Oddball · 13 Mar 2014 at 20:53

Around £400 with some flexibility. Why the i5 over the i7?

Sgt.Oddball · 13 Mar 2014 at 23:10

Ok. So looking at the i5 listed earlier.
Which motherboard to use? I don't mind going all out on this as I would like to be able to add to this system over time. Need to get it past the OH in stages....