Taproot Posted September 11, 2013 Posted September 11, 2013 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. [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC]
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