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acolis
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A friend of mine wants to buy bf4 and want to know what he needs to upgrade to play it on low,medium,high,ultra specs.

 

CPU - Intel Core i7 950 @ 3.07GHz

 

MB - Gigabyte X58-USB3

 

RAM - Triple 2GBX3=6GB

 

GPU -  GeForce GTS 450 1GB

 

PSU - Genreic 600W

 

 

Thank you for your help.

 

 

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Is that what he is going to buy? and ya for sure get a new gpu

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oh gawd, that gpu is horrible. whats the budget?

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A friend of mine wants to buy bf4 and want to know what he needs to upgrade to play it on low,medium,high,ultra specs.

 

CPU - Intel Core i7 950 @ 3.07GHz

 

MB - Gigabyte X58-USB3

 

RAM - Triple 2GBX3=6GB

 

GPU -  GeForce GTS 450 1GB

 

PSU - Genreic 600W

 

 

Thank you for your help.

 

 

Hey,

 

with the current specs, I would say he might be able to get away with low/medium graphic settings. If I was to say what to upgrade first, it would be the graphics card. That will defo struggle and I doubt he will get decent (40-60fps) on low/medium settings.

 

Anything else I guess, possibly a dual kit 8GB RAM of some high performance RAM. BF4 "supposedly" can squeeze a couple more frames per second with higher clocked RAM.

 

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All of those components are fine. He could probably play the game on the lowest settings, provided he has the latest nVidia drivers. However, if he wants to upgrade something, I would definitely tell him to upgrade the GPU. The nVidia GeForce GTX 760 is a great low price card and also, if he wanted and AMD card, the R9 270X is also an ok card for the price.

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Budget please? for upgrading his current system I think he/you should get a new power supply if possible but the main concern is getting a new graphics card. The 1366 Socket is old but is still good. Sell the Geforce GTS 450 for as much as you can get it on ebay or something. And use that money to add on-top of the current budget to get a new gpu and power supply. 600watts is enough for most systems with a single graphics card whether its high end or not.

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Just upgrade your gpu/psu.

What we recommend depends on where you're shopping/located.

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If it was unclear this is the current build he has, and yes its an old build and he didnt consulted me to buy it so it has crappy PSU and case...

 

Budget... well I live in israel so its not much the budget but the availability of hardware.

 

The budget is 1200NIS ~ 350$

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If it was unclear this is the current build he has, and yes its an old build and he didnt onsulted me to buy it so it has crappy PSU and case...

Budget... well I live in israel so its not much the budget but the availability of hardware.

The budget is 1200NIS ~ 350$

Are there any shops you can links us to?

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Are there any shops you can links us to?

You need to quote a post or tag a member or else they won't get a notification you replied to them.

 

 

 

Budget please? for upgrading his current system I think he/you should get a new power supply if possible but the main concern is getting a new graphics card. The 1366 Socket is old but is still good. Sell the Geforce GTS 450 for as much as you can get it on ebay or something. And use that money to add on-top of the current budget to get a new gpu and power supply. 600watts is enough for most systems with a single graphics card whether its high end or not.

 

 

All of those components are fine. He could probably play the game on the lowest settings, provided he has the latest nVidia drivers. However, if he wants to upgrade something, I would definitely tell him to upgrade the GPU. The nVidia GeForce GTX 760 is a great low price card and also, if he wanted and AMD card, the R9 270X is also an ok card for the price.

 

 

Hey,

 

with the current specs, I would say he might be able to get away with low/medium graphic settings. If I was to say what to upgrade first, it would be the graphics card. That will defo struggle and I doubt he will get decent (40-60fps) on low/medium settings.

 

Anything else I guess, possibly a dual kit 8GB RAM of some high performance RAM. BF4 "supposedly" can squeeze a couple more frames per second with higher clocked RAM.

 

Elven 

 

 

oh gawd, that gpu is horrible. whats the budget?

 

 

Is that what he is going to buy? and ya for sure get a new gpu

 

 

I bet he would be able to play on low, if that is not the case it looks like the thing to upgrade is only the gpu.

 

 

A link to a comparison price site:

 

http://www.zap.co.il/models.aspx?sog=c-graphiccard&db58426=128834&orderby=price

 

http://www.zap.co.il/models.aspx?sog=c-graphiccard&db58426=128834&orderby=price&pageinfo=2

 

http://www.zap.co.il/models.aspx?sog=c-graphiccard&db58426=128834&orderby=price&pageinfo=3

 

http://www.zap.co.il/models.aspx?sog=c-graphiccard&db58426=128834&orderby=price&pageinfo=4

 

The las past is up to 1200 after that is above the budget

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My recommendations:

http://wellcom.co.il/catalog/product_info.php/sapphire-ati-radeon-7870-2gb-gddr5-pci-with-new-only-p-13610

http://wellcom.co.il/catalog/product_info.php/seasonic-520w-s12ii-520gb-80plus-bulk-p-15178?language=he

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