Worth upgrading my CPU?

derick77

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Hello people!

Always been a PC gamer and for some strange reason have always mixed AMD CPU's with Nvidia GPU's!

Now my question is as follows:

I have a 6 month old AMD A10-5700 (Overclocked @ 4.1ghz) with 8GB DDR3 1600 and matched to an EVGA Nvidia GTX 660 SC2 (Overclocked ontop of the stock overclock +50MHz GPU Clock Offset and +300MHz Memory Clock Offset)

Now it plays everything smoothly apart from the two games I'm always playing ... Dayz and ARMA 3 which sometimes drop to 20fps.

Is it worth me upgrading my CPU to the new A10-6800K and overclock that like a boss? OR Do I dive into the world of Intel and grab an i5 3570k bundle? My eyes are set on the "Dragon Army Z77" Intel Core i5 3570K @ 4.4GHz Quad Core Overclocked Bundle.

Need to weigh up costs as usual, do I really want to change my entire motherboard and CPU just to play DayZ and ARMA 3 60fps? Or should I just wait for the standalone of DayZ which will be better optimised.

Views please!

Cheers :)
 
You're looking at the few games where the APU isn't good enough unfortunately. An A10-6800K would improve things a bit, but if these games are important to you, you'd be better off with an Intel CPU (though Haswell rather than Ivybridge). Like you say, there won't be any problem with the vast majority of games, and since more and more use multiple cores well, you'll otherwise be fine.
 
teppic said:
You're looking at the few games where the APU isn't good enough unfortunately. An A10-6800K would improve things a bit, but if these games are important to you, you'd be better off with an Intel CPU (though Haswell rather than Ivybridge). Like you say, there won't be any problem with the vast majority of games, and since more and more use multiple cores well, you'll otherwise be fine.
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Cheers for the speedy reply, It's very strange regrading DayZ ... Sometimes Its sitting around the 50-60fps range which is awesome ... others it bums out 20fps, I know when all the AI and loot goes server side it will GREATLY improve FPS I'm just being a whine little girl.

Think I will wait for the standalone of DayZ and then decide. Everything else is faultless. Can run all the latest games maxed out and achieve 60fps+ was even amazed how well it runs Metro 2033 and Last light only dipping to 40fps, which to me is very playable.

Still accepting views and opinions! When pay day comes around I might just go ahead and try the i5 3570k :)

EDIT:: Just seen you mention Haswell took a little look at Overclockers bundle "Quasar 210i" Intel Core i5 4670K @ 4.2GHz Overclocked Haswell Gaming PC Bundle (http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=BU-157-OE&groupid=43&catid=2512&subcat=2604) Would this be more than sufficient?

Cheers.
 
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Most games are more than happy with any modern quad core CPU, but a few struggle on the APUs.

Although an upgrade to the 6800K would improve performance generally (I got mine to 4.7GHz without any problems) it wouldn't be worth it at all unless you sold your current APU for a very good price.

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Yep, a 4670K would give a huge boost to these games. Whether it's worth the cost of the upgrade for them is up to you :)
 
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As said above to get any more performance out of your system you'll really need to switch platforms. Over clocking can help but that will have its limitations especially on the non-k chips.

Id say the 4670k bundle would be great.
 
Arma 2 has always been a clunky game, I've not experienced that severe of a drop but I don't get a constant solid 60FPS with my setup. You just have to decide if it's worth spending the money for two games.
 
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