Xoie wrote:
FilthMcNasty wrote:
Phoenix904 wrote:
Also, I think I'll take your advice and just stick with this for now, then later on I can decide if I want to swap to the ps4 when it comes out OR upgrade both my CPU and GPU (which I'm assuming is really all I really need to do and is cheaper than buying a whole new computer right?). Sorry for having to make everything black and white for me, I'm really not computer educated at all. My biggest accomplishments ever that are computer related are installing my own power supply and GPU with youtube lol.
Always best to wait it out if you can and you seem to be in good enough shape that even if you don't upgrade right away, at least you're not suffering. If you want to go at it piece by piece you should start with the GPU. You already have the experience and it's the most plug-and-play friendly upgrade. LGA775 is an older socket type and if you decide you want a better CPU with a different socket it will require getting the CPU, motherboard and possibly RAM as well.
If you're wanting to save up and get everything at the same time, you can probably find a package deal with little to no assembly required for about as much as it costs to upgrade everything. Definitely check into that because it's probably the best bang for the buck and the least headache. It used to be that you could spend $1500 on hardware to run this game and still only barely eek out good performance at high settings. Based on the results I've seen from people posting their benchmarks, the hardware to achieve 7k+(Extremely High) scores is around $600-$700 range; maybe less considering you already have a monitor, mouse, keyboard, ect.
desmar wrote:
You'd be better off putting in lower latency memory, or the fastest memory compatible with the trinity
Low latency RAM isn't worth the cost if you already have RAM. That's only something you should even consider if you're buying it new and it's just a difference of a few bucks. Not enough of a boost in performance to warrant scrapping old RAM for new.
Edited, Aug 15th 2013 2:37am by FilthMcNasty
With all due respect, Filth, if he's running on a 32-bit operating system, he's not even taking full advantage of what he has now. He's only using a fraction of his available RAM and VRAM. A new GPU isn't going to solve this.
Phoenix, the first step has to be switching to 64-bit Windows to make full use of your computer's memory and then guage the performance improvement before taking the next step. Then Filth's advice makes sense if you want to keep going.
Are sure you're running on 32bits? If you go to Start > Right-click Computer (or My Computer) > Properties, does it say you are using a 32-bit operating system (or at least, it doesn't say you're using 64)?
Right clicking on on my computer doesnt say whether or not I have 32 bit or 64 bit however I'm pretty sure that I've seen somewhere that it's 32bit, in addition to that when I look at how much ram my comp has, it only displays 2.75GB when I have 4GB installed, so it would make sense to me that I have 32 bit seeing as how 32 bit doesn't utilize all of it...