Upgrading the old toaster.

Looking for some opinions on whether or not I should just ditch the old one to get a new comp. It works OK-ish for most things (BF3 is a clear 60 FPS on medium, no drops), but I tried OCing the CPU for Planetside and it played well, but was threatening to crash on me. After some stability issues I reverted it to non-OC.

Current part list as follows:

Q6600 (Core 2 Quad)
4Gs of RAM (1G per stick)

GeForce GTX 560 (MSI brand)

And that's all that really matters, so far. Is the jump to an i5 worth it? Is increasing RAM worth it?

I just don't know, very much on the fence about it.

get the i5 and get 8 gigs. that's pretty much baseline for a modern gaming PC.

 edit: also don't expect to get respectable performance in PS2 unless you SLI two 680s. i had to stop playing that game because i would constantly dip under 30 fps in bigger battles at lowest settings with a 660ti.

yea I heard that game runs like crap on pretty much everything

ps2 is horribly optimized

Granted its fucking huge, but still. It does run like ass on just about everything.

If you consider 30 fps to be decent then it's no problem. I can run it just fine on low settings at least.

I run it on low settings fine... 30fps (which fine to me

after playing bf3 at 60fps for so long 30 is completely unplayable for me. it makes aiming way too jerky.

I guess I'm used to both,I play bf3 on xbox every day still lol

30 FPS makes my head hurt nowadays

On a good say, I can get 60 when doing nothing. Betting into a small battle will drop it down to 30. Bigs are like 20.

The real problem is frame drops that go all the way down to 4.

I get slightly bothered at 25-.

And if your computer is actually good enough, setting some of the settings higher for Planetside will actually be better. If everything is low, your computer doesn't use as much of your videocard, but a lot of your CPU. If your card is up to snuff, you can increase some settings so that the GPU does most of the work.

since PS2 is so cpu intensive would i7 really benefit in that game?


or maybe i5 (2500k is sorta cheap used,but new Haswell is 20% better than it) and overclock it with 212 evo cooler, and like a gtx 760 ( a little better than 660ti,plus has 256 memory bus)

Thought you had a 2500k JR?

nah I got the 3570k for the better integrated graphics if I ever needed it , 2500k was actually more expensive

Ah thats right

My I7 960 is still a beast