Do I need an upgrade?

[djshine2012]

Hey guys!!! I have an I3 2120 3.30 ghz.
If I upgrade it to a better one I5 or sthing will i get more fps in games?Is my cpu good enough? I have an asus hd 7750 1gb gddr5 graphics card. What do you think?

 

[siddharthmukul007]

you will surely get tangible performance benefits.

but don't expect go get a hell and heaven difference because your gpu is not that good

 

[djshine2012]

you will surely get tangible performance benefits.

but don't expect go get a hell and heaven difference because your gpu is not that good

I'm planning to get a better gpu but will the new gpu give me the perfomance boost i want without upgrading the cpu?

 

[siddharthmukul007]

well if you get somethings like the gtx 770 or the 780....the cpu will start to bottleneck.

you will be better of upgrading to i5 for all round performance benefit.

 

[jay2577]

It depends on the game. Some games are more intensive on the CPU and some on the GPU.

For example i've posted a couple of CPU benchmarks.

What games are you planning on playing?

 

[djshine2012]

well if you get somethings like the gtx 770 or the 780....the cpu will start to bottleneck.

you will be better of upgrading to i5 for all round performance benefit.

I was planning to get a 7870 .. wouldnt be good? + i have a 500 wat power supply and new cards need atleast 500wat will i need to upgrade my power supply too?

 

[jay2577]

If i were you i would spend my money an a new GPU first and then upgrade the CPU

Do you have a budget in mind?

 

[djshine2012]

If i were you i would spend my money an a new GPU first and then upgrade the CPU

Do you have a budget in mind?

uhh.. yeah.. i can afford easily a card at around 200$ but i could get 300$

 

[jay2577]

Anything more powerful than the 7870/270x or Nvidia GTX760/670 would need a better power supply unit to power them.
What's the make/model of your 500 watt power supply unit?

 

[siddharthmukul007]

well choice is totally yours..you can get the 7870 and a 500w psu. you wont feel that much of a bottle neck, and later upgrade your cpu. or the other way round. whichever works

 

[djshine2012]

Anything more powerful than the 7870/270x or Nvidia GTX760/670 would need a better power supply unit to power them.
What's the make/model of your 500 watt power supply unit?

Its a zalman zm500-G5

 

[jay2577]

That's not the highest quality PSU but not too terrible.
You should be fine with either of these 2 graphics cards

MSI Radeon R9 270X Hawk Edition Twin Frozr IV for $229.99
http://us.ncix.com/products/?usaffiliateid=1000031504&sku=90960&vpn=R9%20270X%20HAWK&manufacture=MSI

Or the Sapphire R9 270X 1020MHZ 2G GDDR5 for $214.98
http://us.ncix.com/products/?usaffiliateid=1000031504&sku=91078&vpn=11217-01-20G&manufacture=SAPPHIRE

The Msi would be my choice. The Twin Frozr cooling is superb

 

[jay2577]

If you had a better power supply i would of recommended an AMD 280x for $299.99.
It would have bottlenecked on your i3 but when you upgrade later to an i5 it would make for a very powerful machine.

 

[djshine2012]

ok man.. thanks a lot!!