Halp!

[Hamilton]

Hello all!

I had decided on getting a refurbished MSI GTX 960 at $175 with a $180 budget. I was about to order the card last week, but didn't get around to it, I was then disappointing when I played the Battlefront because I could only run the game at medium settings. HOWEVER, playing the Battlefront beta was a huge wakeup call as to how weak my x4 760k was. I was frequently hitting 100% cpu usage, and therefore my game's video and audio stuttering for seconds at a time making my game nearly un-playable. 

 

This issue brings my debate

 

Over the weekend I have discovered that I can afford the i5 4590, a significantly better cpu. I have begun to debate with myself, if I get the gtx 960, will it be worth it? Or do I need to upgrade from my cpu to the i5?

 

(i have the sapphire radeon r7 260x)

[seabass9990]

Are you planning on playing battlefronts final release, or do you tend to play diffrent games?

[yung metal]

Ya don't wanna bottleneck your brand new GPU.

[peter325]

I would put this in the help forum because there are some dick mods that will lock this for being in the wrong section 

[CalebTheEternal]

Well Battlefront is in beta too, you need to remember that. It doesn't even use my SLI and I have to play it on low to get 144 FPS, and I don't even hit that most of the time. 

[Killervolt]

I would grab the 4460 instead of the 4590, as there's little difference. I run a 260X and I'm happy at medium, you can upgrade that later. So upgrade the CPU.