I've just gone up to a 750 Ti and the improvement is very marked, but reading some of its benchmark scores online gave me pause. For reference, I'm running it at 1350/5800 - a reasonable OC - and getting roughly 1050 in Heaven (maxed out DX9), but I'm seeing pretty much double this score in other systems at the same resolution and in DX11... they have stronger CPU's.
I really want to get back into gaming - and to go up to 1080 - so bearing my spec in mind, is it worth me investing in a CPU upgrade? Afterburner tells me that my RAM is more than enough for what I'm doing - and we know how little the RAM bandwidth affects games - so I'm thinking my CPU is holding things back.
Were I to change, would it be better to shoot for higher clock (the i3 4370 has caught me eye, but it would need a board change), or more physical cores (an i5 3470, or something)? I'm on very cheap air cooling, which I would like to retain if possible; not interested in OCing whatever I would end up with.
Many thanks to any and all repliers
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I really want to get back into gaming - and to go up to 1080 - so bearing my spec in mind, is it worth me investing in a CPU upgrade? Afterburner tells me that my RAM is more than enough for what I'm doing - and we know how little the RAM bandwidth affects games - so I'm thinking my CPU is holding things back.
Were I to change, would it be better to shoot for higher clock (the i3 4370 has caught me eye, but it would need a board change), or more physical cores (an i5 3470, or something)? I'm on very cheap air cooling, which I would like to retain if possible; not interested in OCing whatever I would end up with.
Many thanks to any and all repliers
