Improvements without MOBO

thepeteh · 4 Dec 2014 at 17:38

Hi knowledgeable folk of ocuk, I have the following system;

Asus Z77 Maximus V Gene Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard
Intel Core i7-3770K 3.50GHz
16GB DDR3 PC3-12800
GeForce GTX 670 2GB
Kingston 256GB SSD
Samsung 500GB

Is there much worth doing to improve my current system before the inevitable bite the bullet and get a new CPU, Mobo and GFX all together? Currently struggling to play BF4 and CSGO with a decent frame rate, goes a bit sluggish at times.

If it is to be a new CPU, Mobo and GFX, then what is the current reconsiderations for good £ per performance?

Cheers

thepeteh · 4 Dec 2014 at 17:45

1920 x 1080

Just opened up my case and reckon there is room for another but think I'd rather upgrade the card, will look at 970's.

Will also check out how to overclock, never done that before.

Cheers

thepeteh · 4 Dec 2014 at 17:46

struggles to keep above 40-50fps with most stuff maxed out on csgo. battlefield really struggles now, though I think a few updates have caused that as well. pretty much unplayable.

thepeteh · 4 Dec 2014 at 18:06

It's just the stock Intel cooler so would need to get a new cooler.

thepeteh · 7 Dec 2014 at 17:40

Lian Li A05-B, its fairly tight in there..

thepeteh · 7 Dec 2014 at 19:03

Little update. For some reason I didn't spot that only 1 core of my CPU was running. I didn't know why but seems it was crippling performance. Did a bios reset and all seems much better now!

150 - 250fps on full settings CSGO and BF4 is back to its smooth self.