CPU Bottleneck?

Sgt.Oddball

Sgt.Oddball

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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:
 
Bearing in mind DayZ SA has very mixed performance for people on a variety of systems. The towns lag for most people :D
Are you having issues on any other games?

I'd recommend getting upgraded to an i5, but you'd probably need around £250 for that.
 
The stand alone benefits hugely from lightly threaded CPU performance. The game may seem newer and shinier than the mod but resource wise i found it just as bad if not worse around the time of release last December.

My 8320 @ 4.8 + 290x was getting 20-35fps at the time in very small farm areas. I would imagine that is bordering deadly fps when you are in populated areas. No doubt the game has probably seen some big performance boosts considering how poor original release performance was, but am sure you would stand to benefit a fair amount by upgrading the CPU if you are quite a dedicated Dayz player.

I will download Dayz later and try it out on my 4770k, which should give the same performance as an i5 for dayz. This way you can make the decision on hard numbers rather than hearsay.
 
I would think that but it could be the game has terrible over all performance anyway, would not surprise me with DayZ.

The 4770k should at least show you if its worth it, regardless of who's fault it is.
 
Sgt.Oddball said:
I appreciate the time taken. I guess I am on the right line then about the CPU being the problem?
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Between a A8 5600K and a HD7870, the CPU would be dragging the leg of 7870 by quite a long way in most games, except for may be linear single-player games where the bottleneck would be less.

To be honest, don't really know what the guy that built the PC was thinking, considering he could have used a FX6300 on AM3+ platform instead of the A8 5600K instead of FM2 for not much more money...
 
I think a CPU upgrade will definatly help but don't expect miracles :p

I run it with the spec in my sig (only use a single 290x though) on high settings, low / med aa with shadows and clouds turned off @ 1200p and towns will still drop my fps down to around 30 - 40. Outside of towns its fine though. I'm hoping things will improve once it enters beta / full release.
 
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Would not bother with a 4770k, wont see any advantage in DayZ.

Second hand 2500k + board would probably leave you with £200-250 left. Sell the 7870 and you will easily have enoguh for a 290.

This will net you the biggest increase in performance but still it will be essentially the same as puppetmaster's set up in performance.

Buying new, i would go:

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-4670K 3.40GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £167.99
1 x Gigabyte G1.Sniper Z87 Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £109.99
Total : £287.58 (includes shipping : £8.00).



And a half decent cooler. This does not leave enough cash tog ive an upgrade on the GPU front that will benefit Dayz. If you want better performance in some other games, doubling up on the GPU would help but i am afraid for Dayz it will do next to nothing.
 
I'm pretty sure the only real benefits of the i7 compared to the i5 are for photo/video editing, rendering etc.

As current games aren't optimized to use the virtual threads of the i7's etc.
 
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....
 
Any half decent Z87 really. The expensive Z87 are targeted at extreme clockers with LN2 or people looking to tri SLI or more.

G1 sniper if you like nice audio, gigabyte OC if you are looking to do loads of overclocking and benching and ave a sound card (chip is still good but audiophiles like their sound cards!).
 
Yeah I wouldnt bother spending more than £150 on the board as higher than that will just have features you will never use (like e-sata ports, 4 extra USB, quad-sli support etc).

Id also advise gigabyte sniper or the orange OC one
 
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