Upgrade ready for Battlefield 2042

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So it's been a while :eek:

My current rig is starting to get a little long in the tooth. And the newly announced BF 2042 might push my rig a little too much to play it in anything other than low, especially as the 1070 I got from overclockers 5 years ago now has frame drops on games when I look at water/liquid. I play on a 144Hz 1440p monitor.

Currently got:
Ryzen 1700
16GB RAM
EVGA 1070SC

I was thinking of upgrading to a RTX 3070 but I think my CPU being first gen Ryzen would bottleneck it as they were launched with slower clock speeds.

So is it worth upgrading just switching CPU for a 3700x or perhaps getting a new motherboard, faster ram and going the whole hog with a 5800x if that has major improvements over the 3700x given i'd only be using a 3070? (if I can find one)
 
They should be doing an open beta before release, that would give u a good idea if u can run the game prior to full release.

Are u able to play bfv?
 
They should be doing an open beta before release, that would give u a good idea if u can run the game prior to full release.

Are u able to play bfv?
Yep I have BFV. So just launched into Twisted Steel and get from 50-70fps on low settings. I used to be able to play in medium with that FPS so not quite sure what is giving up the ghost/limiting. Playing Apex Legends if I have slack open I lose about 5fps :cry:

I should have access to the technical test in July but that's kind of what I wanted to get myself ready for. But I think the consensus from replies is get a GPU (or try), see how it that goes then get a new CPU down the line?
 
Yep I have BFV. So just launched into Twisted Steel and get from 50-70fps on low settings. I used to be able to play in medium with that FPS so not quite sure what is giving up the ghost/limiting. Playing Apex Legends if I have slack open I lose about 5fps :cry:

I will have access to the technical test in July but that's kind of what I wanted to get myself ready for. But I think the consensus from replies is get a GPU (or try), see how it that goes then get a new CPU down the line?
Id start with the GPU (good luck) then try got a cpu/mobo combo... how do you feel about prebuilds? They i noticed a lot of them come with a 3070
 
With my spec in sig I get 60 to 80fps at 1440p high settings in BF5. I’m not going to be able to get a new GPU before BF 2042 so will see how it goes, prepared to drop down to 1080p if needs be.
 
The other thing. From googling it looks like "FE" cards are more of thing now vs the after market 3 party ones. Performance wise is there much of a difference between say MSI 3070OC vs 3070FE? Neither is cherry picked/lower binned?
 
Maybe try for a 3070 or 6800 then pick up a cheap used 3700X and try overclocking the ram to 3200mhz.

The other thing. From googling it looks like "FE" cards are more of thing now vs the after market 3 party ones. Performance wise is there much of a difference between say MSI 3070OC vs 3070FE? Neither is cherry picked/lower binned?

Nothing really between FE vs AIB models aside from the price.
 
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Maybe try for a 3070 or 6800 then pick up a cheap used 3700X and try overclocking the ram to 3200mhz.

Nothing really between FE vs AIB models aside from the price.
Fab thanks mate. Will see what card I can get and how much for then look CPU ect later unless there's a blinding deal on em.
 
So it's been a while :eek:

My current rig is starting to get a little long in the tooth. And the newly announced BF 2042 might push my rig a little too much to play it in anything other than low, especially as the 1070 I got from overclockers 5 years ago now has frame drops on games when I look at water/liquid. I play on a 144Hz 1440p monitor.

Currently got:
Ryzen 1700
16GB RAM
EVGA 1070SC

I was thinking of upgrading to a RTX 3070 but I think my CPU being first gen Ryzen would bottleneck it as they were launched with slower clock speeds.

So is it worth upgrading just switching CPU for a 3700x or perhaps getting a new motherboard, faster ram and going the whole hog with a 5800x if that has major improvements over the 3700x given i'd only be using a 3070? (if I can find one)
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