Does my CPU make such a big difference ?

[TUBSYY]

so currently i have a GTX 660ti Twin Frozr II from msi, 8gb od 1333mhz ram, Gigabyte z68ap-d3, corsiar cx750 psu and an i5 2400 1155 LGA @3.1 ghz. And i was wondering if upgrading the cpu would really make a noticeable difference? i tend to play games like battlefield, guild wars 2, cod4; games like that.

any thoughts are welcome :D

Jordan

[spooley]

have you looked at your cpu usage during gameplay? if your seeing bottlenecks because your cpu is maxed out all the time then you might consider that upgrade.

I havnt used the i5 2400 so I dont know how its performance is specifically.

linus shows that upgrading from a quad core to a six core processor your only gonna see small gains, 1-3 frames max

most games dont utilize much more than quad core cpu's except battlefield 3.

[ERSCreeper]

I would say upgrade to 1600Mhz ram would help. (I normally get Bluescreen memory dumps with 1333Mhz.)

And a Motherboard Bios flash could hurt (Unless you do it wrong)

Your CPU should be fine.

[TUBSYY]

i realise i am going to sound a right nob here but, how do you flash the bios ?

[Salmiakbal]

Nah, won't make a difference.

[Wats]

i realise i am going to sound a right nob here but, how do you flash the bios ?

You must improve your Google-Fu before one can simply "flash the BIOS".

Your 2400 is fine, I'd upgrade the 660ti first.

[christoi]

You probably are GPU-bottlenecked in most games anyways, the 2400 is more than enough really. Should be fine, there's not much point upgrading.

[TUBSYY]

i only got the 660ti recently haha, not getting rid of that :D

[Helltech]

The 2400 is fine for gaming, its ranked near or higher than my i7 920 and it still beasts modes through 1200p.

[virusal19]

I would say upgrade to 1600Mhz ram would help. (I normally get Bluescreen memory dumps with 1333Mhz.)

And a Motherboard Bios flash could hurt (Unless you do it wrong)

Your CPU should be fine.

1333Mhz and 1600Mhz have a very slight performance difference, since he already got RAM, its not worth it' unless he does 3D work or After Effects or heavy rendering.

-virusal19

[Venum]

Yes its fine, nothing to change yet :D

[Art Vandelay]

You can play COD4 on a toaster, it won't make a difference in it. It'll make a difference in BF3, though.

[ShadowLight18]

You can play COD4 on a toaster, it won't make a difference in it. It'll make a difference in BF3, though.

man. why you gotta be slack on the toaster.

they have much more potential than that.

give the toasters of the world a break