- Jul 31, 2012
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Hey folks. I am contemplating upgrading my rig. The only reason for upgrading is superior gaming. I play FPS like Planetside 2. I currently run at 1920x1200 on a 27" monitor. The game runs nicely, but I see it often drops below the magic 60fps and I would like to see a solid 60fps. At least in Planetside 2, it shows you where your bottleneck is. On the bottom of the screen it shows your fps and a [CPU] or [GPU] Next to it, meaning that's the source of your limitations.
On mine, it 95% of the time shows [CPU].
My current rig is as follows:
I5-2500K overclocked to 4.3ghz on an evo 212 cooler.
16 gigs Corsair dominator ram
XFX 7970 Ghz edition
250 gig Samsung SSD 840 EVO
120 gig OCZ-AGILITY (I run the game from this drive)
2TB HHD (ST2000DM001-9YN164)
1000 watt platinum certified PSU)
So my question is. Do I need a whole new build (New CPU/Ram/GPU), or is the GPU strong enough or is the CPU strong enough? Does it make more sense to wait for Skylake to come out before upgrading? I would prefer a build to last 3 years at a minimum. Bought the I5-2500K as soon as they fixed the issue they were having with the mobos.
Thanks for the input
On mine, it 95% of the time shows [CPU].
My current rig is as follows:
I5-2500K overclocked to 4.3ghz on an evo 212 cooler.
16 gigs Corsair dominator ram
XFX 7970 Ghz edition
250 gig Samsung SSD 840 EVO
120 gig OCZ-AGILITY (I run the game from this drive)
2TB HHD (ST2000DM001-9YN164)
1000 watt platinum certified PSU)
So my question is. Do I need a whole new build (New CPU/Ram/GPU), or is the GPU strong enough or is the CPU strong enough? Does it make more sense to wait for Skylake to come out before upgrading? I would prefer a build to last 3 years at a minimum. Bought the I5-2500K as soon as they fixed the issue they were having with the mobos.
Thanks for the input