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Alright, thanks for the advice!

My bad about the link. The mobo is a ASRock Z77 Extreme4 I can get it at around 200$ including shipping

Hi everyone, A motherboard in one of my machines died. I have enough money to replace the motherboard and I was thinking of getting this mobo http://www.newegg.com/global/au/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157293 However, will it be more beneficial to save up a bit more to buy a new CPU and motherboard? Right now I have a socket 1155 cpu (i7 3770k) or should I just go with z77 Extreme4? The primary use of this machine will be gaming. Any advice would be great!

I'll give this a try and I will also do the surveys Mostly high-very high with stuff like tesselation, grass, msaa and shadows turned down or off. Yeah I know. When I bought the cpu, I intended to overclock but I've gotten lazy. Still, the game doesn't use 100% of my CPU (mostly stays around 75-80%) so should I really have to overclock it to get better performance?

Thanks for the response. I guess I'll wait and see what happens.

Hi guys, Lately in GTA V I've been getting lower FPS than what I should be expecting. I run the game on mostly high and very high (which is what the game set for me on first launch) and I get anywhere between 30-80fps with an average of around 45 fps. This is strange because my specs are at at least equal to the recommended -- if not better. What I've tried so far is first downloading the beta 15.4 drivers from AMD which didn't change anything. I then tried turning down the settings: no matter if I changed everything to the lowest settings or changed the resolution down from 1080p my fps would not change. I'm lost now. My questions are what FPS do you think I should expect? Am I over-estimating my PC? If I'm not, what can I do about this if anything? Could it potentially be an optimisation issue? My specs: i7 3770k @ 3.50ghz stock 8GB ram MSI r9 290x Any help is appreciated! Thanks.