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Is it even worth upgrading?

chelsea.nick

chelsea.nick

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I'm a bit of a tight a**e, think I should establish that up front.

Currently have a MSI R9 280X bought in Jan 2014 along with a I5 3750K and 16GB RAM bought some time afterwards. I get pretty poor FPS on Battlefield 1 (from 30-60) and appalling FPS on Witcher 3 (60 after a restart, max 30 the rest of the time). I've kept an eye on CPU, disk and Mem usage while playing and it doesn't seem to be those that are the bottleneck, so I'm assuming it's the GPU.

With the prices the way they are at the moment and a maximum budget of £250-300, is it even worth upgrading the GPU do you think? I was looking at GTX1060s in that price range and while there's a bit of a performance bump, it doesn't seem to be that much. What would you do?

Appreciate any replies, I'm a bit out of date with all this stuff these days!
 
chelsea.nick said:
I'm a bit of a tight a**e, think I should establish that up front.

Currently have a MSI R9 280X bought in Jan 2014 along with a I5 3750K and 16GB RAM bought some time afterwards. I get pretty poor FPS on Battlefield 1 (from 30-60) and appalling FPS on Witcher 3 (60 after a restart, max 30 the rest of the time). I've kept an eye on CPU, disk and Mem usage while playing and it doesn't seem to be those that are the bottleneck, so I'm assuming it's the GPU.

With the prices the way they are at the moment and a maximum budget of £250-300, is it even worth upgrading the GPU do you think? I was looking at GTX1060s in that price range and while there's a bit of a performance bump, it doesn't seem to be that much. What would you do?

Appreciate any replies, I'm a bit out of date with all this stuff these days!
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is your CPU overclocked?
 
chelsea.nick said:
Not overclocked no.
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Overclock the CPU first. A 4 core at 3.4Ghz with single core boost at 3.8 of such ancient tech ain't going to cut it. Overclock it to 4.4+ first. Get a good cooler if you don't have any.
Then assess the situation.

Imho you wouldn't go wrong with GTX1060 6Gb or RX580.
Please note the GTX1060 3GB is not the same chip at the 1060. The memory isn't their only difference.

As for my choice on price/perf ask when OCUK going to have stock of this

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/kfa2...ddr5-pci-express-graphics-card-gx-096-kf.html
 
I have a 3570k at 3.4 and boost 3.8 with a 780, last time I played bf4 on v high settings fps were around 90 with drops to 60 in big battles.

I believe a gpu upgrade with a 2nd hand 980ti will help in bf1 compared to the outdated 280x.
 
If you run after burner to monitor cpu / Gpu usage when playing bf1 it is likely the cpu sits at around 100% and the Gpu well below that. Once you overclock your cpu being careful of power and temps this will improve but still worth capping fps to keep cpu usage below 100%.
 
Panos said:
Overclock the CPU first. A 4 core at 3.4Ghz with single core boost at 3.8 of such ancient tech ain't going to cut it. Overclock it to 4.4+ first. Get a good cooler if you don't have any.
Then assess the situation.

Imho you wouldn't go wrong with GTX1060 6Gb or RX580.
Please note the GTX1060 3GB is not the same chip at the 1060. The memory isn't their only difference.

As for my choice on price/perf ask when OCUK going to have stock of this

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/kfa2...ddr5-pci-express-graphics-card-gx-096-kf.html
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I wouldn't call Ivy Bridge "ancient tech". It's still very much a capable cpu and not too much slower than anything else even now clock for clock. At 4.5 it's still perfectly capable of anything that doesn't require more than 4 cores.
 
Sargatanas2511 said:
I wouldn't call Ivy Bridge "ancient tech". It's still very much a capable cpu and not too much slower than anything else even now clock for clock. At 4.5 it's still perfectly capable of anything that doesn't require more than 4 cores.
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Its more that i5s have gone nowhere in the past 6 years, but games now take advantage of more than 4cores (like every 2016/17 aaa game). older i5s are just not capable of running bf1 smoothly unfortunately
 
I've got the upgrade itch at the moment. Been using an i5 2500k at 4.5 since early 2012. I just watched this video though.

Might just hang onto my money - stuttering in GTA V with a 7700k? err no thanks

PS re BF1 - take a look at the chart 10m 30secs into the video.
 
yeah but thats bf1 singleplayer benchmark im guessing

my 2500k 4.8 gets nowhere near those numbers in 64p games. 115 average on a 2500k stock? having a laugh

more like 60-70 average with dips into 40-50s. less on a stock, stock 2500k in bf1 64player would be a stutter machine
 
I have a friend who has a 3570k, OC'd and everything. He has a GTX 1080, the CPU bottlenecks it.
If you upgrade to 1060 you will still be okay, but going up to 1070 or even 1080 that CPU is going to limit the graphics card.

What monitor are you using? Refresh rate and resolution?
 
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