Another FX-4100 BF4 question

[McClaughry]

Hi all,

I'm running a FX-4100 on Battlefield 4, and pretty sure it;s a bottleneck. That said, the G-card is pretty average.

The question is this, will I notice an upgrade from an FX-4100 to a 8320 or 8350?
If so, is it worth going to the 8350 considering it's about 1/3 more the price.

Can't look at the intel chips, as I don't think the MB will take them.

I don't plan to overclock, (things go wrong when I mess with BIOS)

I don't think the GPU is maxed out, but i've been running very low settings to try and get the framerate up. It's only really for gaming. The wife uses 3Dmax as a professional and the machine has never had any problems.

Pertinent info on the machine is below:
RAM - DDR3 (I think), 8 gig, DRAM Frequency 668.8MHZ
Motherboard - ASUS M5A97 Pro
Processor - AMD FX 4100 Quad-Core Processor, 3.60 GHz
Graphics Card - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti

Thanks in advance guys.

 

[dextermat]

Hi,

The question is this, will I notice an upgrade from an FX-4100 to a 8320 or 8350?
If so, is it worth going to the 8350 considering it's about 1/3 more the price.

Yes it will be a nice upgrade especially for BF4

The GPU should be fine to run BF4 @ medium / high with descent FPS

 

[McClaughry]

So what, going all the way for the 8350? I've seen problems on forums with overheating as the 8350 runs hotter than the 8320

 

[whitecat]

i cant believe that fx 4100 is bottlenecking GTX 560 ti . the recommended is gtx 660 and gtx 560 ti is slower than 660 But your rig is not bad . if you cant afford fx 8350 , fx 8320 is a good choice .

 

[McClaughry]

Yeah, it does seem strange. I'm simply going on the fact that the g-card is only running 70% capacity and the 4 cores are running at 100% when I play. My two mates have the same g-card, better processors and don't experience the same frame rate problems I do.

Seems there are a few people on here commenting on BF4 and the 4100.
Suggestions are welcome

 

[whitecat]

Yeah, it does seem strange. I'm simply going on the fact that the g-card is only running 70% capacity and the 4 cores are running at 100% when I play. My two mates have the same g-card, better processors and don't experience the same frame rate problems I do.

Seems there are a few people on here commenting on BF4 and the 4100.
Suggestions are welcome

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