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Worth Changing from AMD Phenom II 1100T to I7 2600K?
Hi,
I'm considering whether its worth changing my CPU (and Mobo by default) to an I7 2600K for gaming purposes. My PC is geared towards and mainly used for gaming. I currently play games like Crysis 2 and Battlefield 3 and have read that my CPU can bottleneck my GPU at the 1080P resolution. Of course I ideally want to maintain a FPS of 60 as much as possible but have seen dips to 37fps on BF3 on kharkland for example. Is this considered normal? My FPS usually hovers around the 40-50 mark sometimes to 60fps with Vsync on (dont like tearing!). Also settings are all ultra with aax4. I have tried the FXAA injector but it usually gives me the good old BSOD.
For the most part its smooth but I'd like to get extra FPS. My is CPU is clocked to 4.11GHZ and GPU at 1000/1425. Also Im using AMDs current beta drivers (12.8/9?).
I dont mean to start any arguments about AMD vs Intel as I understand it can be quite a thorny issue for some!!
Would my CPU as it is now cause a bottleneck and inhibit my performance and is it worth the hassle of the move to intel? Or is my system good as it is?
Many thanks in advance.