Recent content by Dave420

Hi all, I'm looking to upgrade from an Intel Pentium G3260 (socket 1150) to something around the $100 price-range. I'm hesitating between buying an i3 4170 for about $130, and changing my motherboard to fit an am3+ socket and getting the fx-6300 for around $70 ($130 with a new motherboard...

Before you do as vive suggested above, go into Task Manager and then click the 'Start-up' tab. Try disabling some of the start-up applications there that have high or medium as start-up impact. You can still open the applications later, it just means that they won't automatically start up when...

How much are you willing to spend on a graphics card?

Uh LGA 1366 is pretty much EOL now, you'll mostly find Intel xeons using that socket but they're usually expensive af and would probably not suit your needs. I've searched a while and most other processor's that fit your socket are also really expensive. Here's an example...

I'd recommend the R9 270x or the GTX 660, they're both around 150 pounds and good performance for that price

So uh, got any updates until now?

Up to 3.9 Ghz with boost, without boost up to 3.5 Ghz (without overclocking)

It depends on that particular graphics card, I've seen them vary with crossfire specs or not. Please provide the full name of the graphics card you want to purchase or link us to the site where you saw it.

What do you mean by: "between 15k"?

Uh could you tell me what patch you found, there could be a lot that you could be referring to. About the resolution, you should be able to change your resolution via the in-game menus, try that. 'MSI Afterburner' is a nice program that you can use for overclocking, I'd recommend that. And yea...