Bought a new PC. Say BF3 readiness please:
AMD Phenom II 1100T 6 core AM3+ Thuban
Zalman 92mm copper vertical cooler
8GB, 2x4GB DDR3 2000 Mushkin RAM
600w Enermax PSU
Gigabyte AM3+ board
XFX AMD HD 5770 1GB
7.1 Creative sound card
500GB 3Gbps SATA HD
Money is tight plan to overclock the unlocked CPU. Would compensate for GPU in the game perhaps?
EDIT:
5770 from previous gen build. Built this PC on the idea of future GPU upgrade. Still could use some valuable input from informed fellows, thanks
lol 1100T
You're pairing a 5770 with so much cpu power? Waste.
It wont run bf3 well.
Dropping down to an 955 and spending more money on a gpu would give you a massive performance bump, also drop down to 4gB of gskil ripjaws, you can just buy more later on. Same with the cooler. You want to invest as much in the expensive parts as possible to begin with. Small extra stuff like aftermarket coolers and extra ram can be added anytime and wont make a dig difference performance wise.
But I'd rather just go with 1155, if you can't afford an i5 2500k now, then just get an i3 2100 and a much more powerful gpu and invest in the i5 later on.
edit oh snappe you already bought it
well suit yourself for making bad decisions
overclocking the cpu might give you some extra performance, but you should very much consider getting by far better gpu
BF3 only uses 4 cores of my 1055T and doesn't benefit much from overclocking despite maxxing out those 4 cores regardless of clock speed (I have no idea what for)
On the other hand it eats all the GPU power I can throw at it - even at medium on my overclocked 6970 it's still a good way off hitting my 120hz refresh rate, and closer to 60 on 64 player clusterfucks.
you'll be playing it on low/medium at 1080p at like 40 or so fps
basically it was a terrible waste of money to buy a 6 core because nothing uses the extra 2 cores and the phenom line is dead in the water anyways. the 5770 is a year old and even though it is not a bad card it was dumb as shit to buy it instead of a 6870 which is what like $40 more
[editline]20th November 2011[/editline]
why did you buy a sound card? motherboard sound owns nowdays
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