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Purchase Date: January 2012
Budget Range: As little as possible but not more than $400 including sale of old parts
System usage: Gaming, word processing and other basic tasks like internet surfing and watching youtube videos.
Primary Games: Older RTS games like Age of Empires II and III, KOTOR series, SWTOR, Star Wars Empire at War, Minecraft.
Preferred parts site: Amazon
Overclocking: No
Current Components:
Cpu: AMD Phenom II x4 965 Black Edition
Motherboard: ASUS M5A97 Motherboard
Case: Cooler Master Budget case (can't remember the name)
Graphics card: MSI R9 270 (Upgraded since the original build).
RAM: 2 4GB sticks for a total of 8GB (can't remember brand, corsair maybe)
PSU: Corsair Gameing series GS600 600W 80 plus certified
HDD: Brand new 1tb seagate barracuda (replaced the old HDD which was on its way out)
OS: Windows 7 64 bit on one HDD and XP on another.
Monitor 1920x1080 Asus. Basic keyboard and mouse.
Reason for upgrade: While I can play most every game I play on max setting with good fps and little lag I have trouble with Minecraft if I turn up the rendering past 12 chunks. I also have very high pop caps with the RTS Empire at War. If I am playing galactic conquest the game will start to lag after a while. Lag also gets bad in skirmishes when both sides have large numbers of ships.
As I understand with the games I play my bottle neck is not my graphics card but cpu? Thus I should upgrade that and the motherboard? So what would be my best options and second, with my budget how much good will an upgrade do me? For example will I be able to max out the render distance on Minecraft and fix the lag issue on EAW or will I just increase performance by a little bit.
Budget Range: As little as possible but not more than $400 including sale of old parts
System usage: Gaming, word processing and other basic tasks like internet surfing and watching youtube videos.
Primary Games: Older RTS games like Age of Empires II and III, KOTOR series, SWTOR, Star Wars Empire at War, Minecraft.
Preferred parts site: Amazon
Overclocking: No
Current Components:
Cpu: AMD Phenom II x4 965 Black Edition
Motherboard: ASUS M5A97 Motherboard
Case: Cooler Master Budget case (can't remember the name)
Graphics card: MSI R9 270 (Upgraded since the original build).
RAM: 2 4GB sticks for a total of 8GB (can't remember brand, corsair maybe)
PSU: Corsair Gameing series GS600 600W 80 plus certified
HDD: Brand new 1tb seagate barracuda (replaced the old HDD which was on its way out)
OS: Windows 7 64 bit on one HDD and XP on another.
Monitor 1920x1080 Asus. Basic keyboard and mouse.
Reason for upgrade: While I can play most every game I play on max setting with good fps and little lag I have trouble with Minecraft if I turn up the rendering past 12 chunks. I also have very high pop caps with the RTS Empire at War. If I am playing galactic conquest the game will start to lag after a while. Lag also gets bad in skirmishes when both sides have large numbers of ships.
As I understand with the games I play my bottle neck is not my graphics card but cpu? Thus I should upgrade that and the motherboard? So what would be my best options and second, with my budget how much good will an upgrade do me? For example will I be able to max out the render distance on Minecraft and fix the lag issue on EAW or will I just increase performance by a little bit.
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