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This is my current setup and I was just wondering if I could make any reasonable improvements without going nuts and if they'd make a difference or if I should just sell it now and start over. What spurred this is I just got watch dogs and its not running well even on "low" settings and I think its just that my PC isn't capable of handling it, though I have heard of it not being optimized properly. Thanks everyone.

 

Case (NZXT Phantom 410 Gaming Case - White))

 

Processor (AMD FX-8120 CPU (8x 3.10GHz/8MB L2 Cache)))

 

Motherboard (Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3 -- AMD 970))

 

Memory (8 GB [4 GB X2] DDR3-1600 Memory Module - G.Skill Ripjaws X))

 

Video Card (AMD Radeon HD 7850 - 2GB - Single Card))

 

Case Lighting (Cold Cathode Neon Light - Blue))

Power Supply (500 Watt - Corsair CX500 V2))

 

Processor Cooling (Certified CPU Fan and Heatsink))

 

Primary Hard Drive (1 TB HARD DRIVE -- 32M Cache, 7200 RPM, 6.0Gb/s - Single Drive))

 

Optical Drive (24X Dual Format/Double Layer DVD±R/±RW + CD-R/RW Drive - Black))

 

Operating System (Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium

 

probably already said by now but SSD

 

Main reason watchdogs doesn't want to work on it is because of your HDD not being able to supply data fast enough. Adding SSD will make it a loooot better.

 

If you don't trust me on this, I have one question for you:

You probably know watchdogs is one of the games that takes the most vram to run. So my question is, where does the data in the vram come from? Yup from your HDD. The snailpase of an HDD is far too slow to provide data fast enough. And if you still don't trust me on this: try lowering the settings to the very lowest and turning screenresolution to the lowest possible too. And still the game almost won't run, it might have gotten a tiny bit better but certainly not much, this proves it's your HDD that's the bottleneck.