Hey
Many are wondering whats best, upgrading the CPU or GPU?
I was in the same place and did a lot of research before I ended up doing both. This gave me a nice opportunity to check what gave the nicest upgrade.
My old system was:
-i7 2600 @3.4
-Geforce 560ti
-16 gb ram
-SSD
I tried a silly mission I made with lots of units and many things happening around me and jumped every setting to max except civillian traffic.
Plan was then to test with the new GPU, a Gigabyte GTX 770 oc to check if I had a FPS increase.
After this I was gonna install a pre-owned i5 3570k and overclock it to check if I got more FPS.
This are the average result:
Old system: 5 FPS
Old system with new GPU: 20 FPS
New system with new GPU and OC'ed 3570k @ 4.2ghz: 23 - 24 fps
This might not be the answer for everyone, but for me the GPU upgrade was well worth it!
If I had known what I know now I would not have bought the CPU cause I had to change it with the old. Sell the old one and other efforts that tbh didn't do any difference.
To top it all 5 of my 6 modules are not working cause I had to reactivate the serial keys due to "significant hardware change", but this is not working.