Is my I7-3700 stil good enough to game on?

[alexjt11]

Hi,

I'm playing BF5 a lot at the moment and I recently put a GTX 1060 6GB into my pc that I had been mining with for the last year.

I'm not getting amazing performance in big scenes with 64 players and I'm running at 1080p medium settings. It just seems silly.

Is it my processor that is making the biggest difference or do I just have a crappy system that I need to upgrade.

[LukeSavenije]

your 3700 is hurting your performence in 1080p... you could get a new one if you want more performence...

2600/b450/16 gigs is pretty cheap to get

[alright_MEATBAGS]

I would crank the settings up, and your performance would probably increase! Your i7 should still be fine, the problem you might be having is that by turning the settings down to medium the game is trying to leverage more of the cpu than the gpu!

[Brent744]

Your cpu will become the bottleneck. I used to have a system with the i7 3770, A great processor but you'll start seeing its age now. Instead of purchasing a new platform you could pickup a 3770k and overclock

[Jurrunio]

what kind of memory are you running?

[alexjt11]

3 minutes ago, Brent744 said:

Your cpu will become the bottleneck. I used to have a system with the i7 3770, A great processor but you'll start seeing its age now. Instead of purchasing a new platform you could pickup a 3770k and overclock

It means I need a new Motherboard for overclocking which are hard to find at a good price.

[aisle9]

23 minutes ago, alexjt11 said:

Hi,

I'm playing BF5 a lot at the moment and I recently put a GTX 1060 6GB into my pc that I had been mining with for the last year.

I'm not getting amazing performance in big scenes with 64 players and I'm running at 1080p medium settings. It just seems silly.

Is it my processor that is making the biggest difference or do I just have a crappy system that I need to upgrade.

It's not shiny and new, but it's still 8 threads with reasonable IPC. You're coming up on time to upgrade. Have your tried 1080p high settings to see if increasing the demand on the GPU evens things out a bit? A steady 50 fps, for example and imo, is better than jerking from 60 to 30 and back.

[Princess Luna]

25 minutes ago, Brent744 said:

Instead of purchasing a new platform you could pickup a 3770k and overclock

Whatever tiny gains from overclocking alone he'd get are not worth the cost and hassle at all, if he already had an unlocked CPU and appropriated mobo sure he should have it overclock but as it is right now the best course of actions is accept it's end of life and upgrade to something recent once Ryzen 2 releases.

[aisle9]

7 hours ago, Princess Cadence said:

Whatever tiny gains from overclocking alone he'd get are not worth the cost and hassle at all, if he already had an unlocked CPU and appropriated mobo sure he should have it overclock but as it is right now the best course of actions is accept it's end of life and upgrade to something recent once Ryzen 2 releases.

As a dedicated "milk the shit out of it" old hardware enthusiast, I would say that "end of life" is far from the truth for the 3770. I think the "end of life" cutoff is hanging somewhere between the last LGA 775 chips and the LGA 1156 chips. You can still overclock the shit out of X58 (and mobo prices are finally coming down), and even a lowly i5-2400 is still competitive with entry-level Pentium chips. I'd venture a guess that the 200 GE performs on par with a Sandy Bridge i5 as well.

 

You can't tell from my signature, but more of my life than I'd care to admit is centered around LGA 1155 right now.