Damn I need another toon on Harbinger with gear....

I'm starting to see a pattern as well...in this forum. I was thinking my system is bottlenecked by the GPU, when in reality it's more of the CPU than anything. Thinking back, I remember when the game launched and I was using my Intel Core Duo E8600. That chip ran like a beast but I "upgraded" to AMD (I got caught up in the whole 8 core fiasco) and sold this amazing machine and used the extra cash to upgrade the video card that has since died.

This is where I'm getting most of my issues. PvP and sometimes in the current raids (although not so much). If I could maintain 30 FPS I'd be happy with that.

Yeah I've already made the decision to go with the NVidia build this time and see what happens. The price is around my price point too ($350-ish), and I'm not going into a situation where like I did before with a $500 card. What CPU are you running with that setup by the way? Thank you for clearing that up. I'll probably go with the aforementioned 1151 socket. I found some pretty reasonable mobos for that CPU versus the 1150, with some extra features I'd like to take advantage of.

This is an excellent breakdown of everyone's position in this debate, and I have a returning player who also did his system with an I-5 setup and it looks really good. My question (stupid as it may be) is that the I-5 in questions runs on a LGA 1151 mobo. Is this the same as a LGA 1150-1154? I'd like to know if later I could run an I-7 off of it or do I need to replace this board entirely....

Exactly. I'm not seeing anything all that impressive. The SSD will be a nice addition for $65 and everything else will run me a measly $600 roughly.

That $65 drive will do nicely. SWTOR is the only game I would installed on the system drive, everything else I'd run for a separate drive. The only thing I would be worried about now is doing a Windows 10 file transfer (but more than liekly I would do another hard re-install). I have this HD in my wishlist now much appreciated.

I've been looking at this alot, based on what everyone has suggested. I play other games as well, but SWTOR is my lifeblood and single thread performance is the biggest concern for me. I'm going to return the motherboard and keep the DDR4 ram and look for a LGA 1150 replacement. Hopefully I can find one with DDR4 RAM, if not I will return the RAM as well, swap my DDR3 RAM from my current setup to the new mobo and buy some replacement sticks for the old board so my buddies can play SWTOR at my house for Star Fortress runs/Flashpoints. I realize that although LGA 1150 is the older platform it's proven to be totally reliable and SWTOR is a single threaded idiot. I always found this funny since any other game I run doesn't have any issues with frame rate except SWTOR (not even GW2 or Sky Forge). Thanks again for the enlightenment.

Very informative post. I've been considering switching to a SSD drive for the system drive for a while now, and I may do that in the future. Right now I have two 1.5TB drives I'm using for the system and backup. I'm thinking somewhere in the 250GB-500GB range. Any suggestions?

Yeah I was looking at that too. Those cards are power leeches aand Nvidia would save me $40....I just might do that. Thanks for all your help!

I thought that as well (that the CPU was the bottleneck). As far as the CPU replacement, I looked at the 4790k and since I already had a 2011 v3 board my choices were narrowed (although the CPUs are around the same price, the one you mentioned is $50 less). The 6700k is looking real good, but then I would have to replace the motherboard. The cores was a big concern for me, because Windows hates more than 4 cores

See I was thinking that too. This CPU is just a slug, and I stopped overclock'ing it because it was just too unstable. I already purchased the 2011 v3 motherboard for my i7 5820k and 8GB of DDR4 RAM. The last piece is the CPU itself. I figured either way that the card would be good for at least 3-4 years at the most.

So I've been playing SWTOR since the beta, and I know how funny this game can be on a video card. My old card died and I'm currently using a backup card to play (a Radeon 5670 to be exact) but I'm in the market for a new video card. What I would like to know is if anybody has any hands on experience with certain video cards that specifically run SWTOR smoother at certain price points? I've been eyeballing this Sapphire Nitro 8 GB GPU for $339 but I'm trying to stay around $300-500 or less, and I don't know if this is the perfect card for SWTOR (as this is the main game I play on my PC the most). My current setup is: 8150 AMD CPU 16 GB Corsair Vengeance RAM ASUS M5A97 Motherboard Windows 10 Professional I'm also running my setup on a 39-inch flat screen at 1920 x 1080 resolution. It doesn't have to be max settings all the time but I need at least 50 frames a second or more for ranked (currently this I'm getting some major lag even with the settings turned down and no shadows/bloom etc., roughly 30-20 fps). I'm running the CPU on a water cooler and the case has 5 fans and a 200mm fan on the side (6 total). It's my current setup until my i7 5820K build is finished (I plan to migrate whatever GPU I purchase to this system as well at a later date). Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

I was wondering if anyone else was having issues with Parsec in Windows 10. Every time I try to install it my system asks me for a security key (because Parsec has some encrypted files on it) and since I have no idea what that means it times out and won't install. Does anyone know about a workaround for this? Starparse works fine in Windows 10 but my main guild uses Parsec... Helpful comments would be appreciated.

An insta-cast burst attack that applies our debuff. In Madness death field should apply the rebuff that makes players weaker towards force attacks versus Demolish. And in Lightning tree Thundering Blast should be instant with a longer cooldown maybe. One tree gets interrupted to easily and the other tree takes to long to generate a damage rotation.