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Would it be worth upgrading my a4 7300 to an Athlon x4 845 for gaming or would it be better to do a complete upgrade next year.

 

 

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1 hour ago, g12601 said:

Would it be worth upgrading my a4 7300 to an Athlon x4 845 for gaming or would it be better to do a complete upgrade next year.

 

 

 

Are you sure that you have the right socket? also, no probably not as lots of games only support 2 cores anyway

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Just now, wrathoftheturkey said:

I'd wait. 

huh?

 

What GPU u got?

GTX 950

1 minute ago, Bigpumkin said:

Are you sure that you have the right socket? also, no probably not as lots of games only support 2 cores anyway

Yeah FM2+

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1 hour ago, g12601 said:

GTX 950

Yeah FM2+

 

I still would say wait and maybe do a full MoBo upgrade next year\when you have the coin

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I'd just save up for a complete overhaul. No point in investing in such an old platform :)

 

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1 hour ago, wrathoftheturkey said:

 

huh?

 

Most modern games still only support 2 cores if I'm not mistaken.

But then again I haven't been keeping as up to date as I should have so I could be wrong.

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1 hour ago, wrathoftheturkey said:

you're mistaken, a lot more have started supporting 4 threads

Good to know ! Maybe my AMD hexacore will finally start being useful!

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1 hour ago, wrathoftheturkey said:

of course, AMD still has its own problems -- lower IPC mainly

Yeah that was kind of a failed upgrade... but it really is noticeable in CIV V

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I NEED SOME HELP WITH THIS.

 

I played Battlefield 1 yesterday and it was just unplayable, It could not go over like 10-20 fps. I am very sure that my CPU is the blame. (AMD A4 7300) I am now seriously considering an upgrade to the X4 845. or some cheap APU quad core.

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