Upgrading my Phenom II 965.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

If there is a problem somewhere on his system - which seems to be the case - then the only thing that advice is going to be good for is wasting money. Besides which, a platform shift from his 965 to a 2500K wouldn't be worth the outlay for what he uses the system for - already established.

Your advice is akin to telling someone to buy a new car when their wipers need renewing.

Agreed. Games like SWTOR and ME1 at 1600X900 should not be having an issue with the system the OP has.

Well, i decided to do a full system scan incase any viruses were the cause of it, found nothing, so i decided to load factory settings on my bios, now for some reason that seems to have fixed the problem as far as i can see, it was only yesterday so things can change, but for now all my games apart from one appear to be running fine [that one game is a GPU problem].

I'm still tempted to do what CAT-THE-FIFTH mentioned though, couldn't hurt.

The issues seems to have been rectified at least for the moment.

 

[danjama]

Six months ago we all would have been saying "Wait for BD! Grab a 6100!"

Anyway, glad you got it sorted.