Upgraded my CPU and am very pleased

i also have a phenom , and altough it runs very playable to me , i need an upgrade soon....


i was thinking one of those new bulldozer amds , i hate intels (amazing proccessors i just simply refuse to pay their overpriced **** cuz they feel like manipulating the market)

ram is cheap nowadays, and since you are probably gonna have to get a new mobo for a new cpu, i say chek out the bundles on tigerdirect.com and such sites, and buy a good new cpu , either I series from intel , or one of the new fx bulldozer cpus from amd

heck youl end up with faster memory too since most mobos are using ddr3 memory now

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I was having issues with Max settings with my GTS450.

Then I upgraded to an FX8120 CPU & Gigabyte 990FXA-UD5 board. Not a single hitch at max settings for everything now.

I am pleased.

my AMD 3.4GHz quad core plays this game just fine. It does have the Sabertooth 990fx mobo backing it up with 16gigs of ram and a GTX 560 superclocked edition though. Everything is on high. but I did turn AA off. I just don't see the need for it.

Damned I hypocritically asked in a former post what hz frequency the TO runs on his monitor, you should have been silent and we would have had a good laugh :-)

Btw I am pretty sure that the fps tool in this game does show the real values. My monitor is capped with 60 hz and my max frame rate displayed by the tool is 60 fps.

That is not what it is.

It does not matter if your computer is pushing more or less frames than your monitor can handle. What matters is if your computer is pushing out frames in sync with your monitor.

What V-Sync does is that it waits for your screen to empty its display memory (pushing out complete frame) before it starts sending next frame to your screen. This is why you can't get more FPS with v-sync on than the refresh rate on the screen. But this also increases the input lag of the monitor.

Wrong.

SSD's are fine for heavy use. They can handle many GB of writes per day. I think on the order of 10GB (that's gigabytes, not bits) per hour. And even with that, they will last five or more years. This idea that SSDs won't last more than a couple years if you write to them often is a myth which was held over from days of non-TRIM, non-wear-leveling drives.

Technology changes and you need to keep educating yourself. Wisdom from five years ago is today's stupidity.

Wrong.

When you get the new rig, put the operating system on the SSD. That is the way to give yourself the greatest speed improvement in all situations.

Wrong.

In normal use, a current generation SSD will last a decade when used as a system drive. Maybe even longer. And you can even use them for your pagefile, though at the cost of an SSD, you're better off spending $50 for an extra 4-8GB of RAM.

I strongly, strongly, recommend you not take this advice.

Don't but hardware from BestBuy, you're getting jipped out of your cash. Get it from newegg or alike. You will save on tax and cheaper from the get go.

Wrong.

Only in theory. In practice the life span of a SSD is shorter than that of a normal HDD. And the more you use it the faster it becomes slower. If possible you should put your pagefile on your RAMDISK or turn it off completely if you have no applications or games that uses it.