I can upgrade the CPU, though. Currently I have:
Core 2 Duo E8400 @ 3.8GHz
NVIDIA 650 GTX PNY XLR8 1GB
4GB DDR2 RAM
Windows 7 Professional x64
1920x1080 display
1366x768 second display
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KTK99
China48 Posts
I can upgrade the CPU, though. Currently I have: Core 2 Duo E8400 @ 3.8GHz NVIDIA 650 GTX PNY XLR8 1GB 4GB DDR2 RAM Windows 7 Professional x64 1920x1080 display 1366x768 second display | ||
renkin
France249 Posts
edit : looking at the 775 socket there isn't much choice. Maybe the Q9550, it's around 120$ used. but it's you can afford 30 or 40$ more you can get a cheap motherboard with a new i5 and a lot more performance. SC2 enjoyed the switch to the haswell architecture that's for sure. | ||
Myrmidon
United States9452 Posts
You need to upgrade sockets to get a real improvement. Actually, for streaming, you should take advantage of NVENC on the GTX 650. I think it should have it unless Nvidia artificially limited it. | ||
KTK99
China48 Posts
On November 25 2014 12:36 Myrmidon wrote:Actually, for streaming, you should take advantage of NVENC on the GTX 650. I think it should have it unless Nvidia artificially limited it. I already am using it, as stated in the first sentence of my post. >_> It looks great but I just wanted that extra "UMPH" and I can't seem to get that without having to buy a new mobo, CPU, and RAM, and cheapest was about 250 and with that I may as well buy a laptop and route my monitor to it and stream using another computer. | ||
hellokitty[hk]
United States1309 Posts
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Cyro
United Kingdom20152 Posts
I already am using it, as stated in the first sentence of my post. >_> It looks great but I just wanted that extra "UMPH" and I can't seem to get that without having to buy a new mobo, CPU, and RAM, and cheapest was about 250 and with that I may as well buy a laptop and route my monitor to it and stream using another computer. Nah you're screwed Getting a quad core wouldn't increase the FPS of your game, nor would streaming with a second PC (i mean, neither would give you more fps than if you had been playing with your current cpu, but not streaming) You might want to get a cheap Haswell board with a pentium g3258 targetting a moderate overclock, that would be a huge FPS increase (i'm not sure exactly how much.. but 1.5x no problem) | ||
Steelo_Rivers
United States1968 Posts
EDIT: Note though that games are starting to no longer support dual core CPUs. The new Dragon Age game and Far Cry 4 won't even boot on a dual core cpu. | ||
Cyro
United Kingdom20152 Posts
You could stream also as long as you're using quick sync nvenc is much better EDIT: Note though that games are starting to no longer support dual core CPUs. The new Dragon Age game and Far Cry 4 won't even boot on a dual core cpu. So they're saying you need an fx6300 at minimum to even launch the game, and pentium g3258 or any APU or fx-4000 series CPU isn't enough? I'm sure i've actually seen benchmarks for dual cores on the new Dragon Age.. ^yep even i3 2100 which gets destroyed by g3258, so unless they are just locking out anything that appears as 2 threads (but not 4) to the operating system without a way to bypass it, there is no problem Regardless, you won't get a good experience with a 650 for those games and lga1150 has upgrade path to i5 etc | ||
Myrmidon
United States9452 Posts
On November 25 2014 14:31 KTK99 wrote: Show nested quote + On November 25 2014 12:36 Myrmidon wrote:Actually, for streaming, you should take advantage of NVENC on the GTX 650. I think it should have it unless Nvidia artificially limited it. I already am using it, as stated in the first sentence of my post. >_> It looks great but I just wanted that extra "UMPH" and I can't seem to get that without having to buy a new mobo, CPU, and RAM, and cheapest was about 250 and with that I may as well buy a laptop and route my monitor to it and stream using another computer. Oh, okay, I wasn't sure what you meant by "render via GPU" because the transcoding for video compression is not rendering. | ||
Cyro
United Kingdom20152 Posts
Supposedly if it only sees two logical cores, the game crashes at the main menu or so, even a Haswell dual core Pentium with decent performance. That's a problem with the game, not with the actual performance if a dual core can run it faster than a stock fx8320. Unfortunate if some developers really want to go down that route of artificially locking out hardware | ||
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