Shadow of Mordor: What hardware is based on it's FPS, mostly?

[Slipperss]

I've got this game a few days ago, and I was really excited to play it, I was prepared for bad fps because my computer is getting pretty old:
i7-930 4.1ghz
ATI Radeon 5970 (Crossfire)
12 GB ram (not sure what mhz, think it was 1100-ish)

I've been fiddling around with the settings in the game, and even on absolutely lowest settings i can only pull 40 fps on the heavy raining in the very beginning.

So I was thinking about upgrading my graphic card to a GTX 970, but what is the point if the game mainly uses the CPU?

So, Shadow of mordor, what will get me most fps, better CPU or better GPU?

 

[ferwindjacks]

I would say upgrading your GPU will give you the best performance, although you really should consider a new system. I hate to throw around this word as it is often misused, but you might be bottlenecked by your CPU. However if you can only do one thing now, get a new GPU and you can use a 970 in a future build.

I recommend the Asus Strix 970.

 

[Slipperss]

I recommend the Asus Strix 970.

Why is that? I always had the Gigabyte Windforce in mind.

 

[ferwindjacks]

A lot of it is personal opinion/bias, but I prefer Asus over Gigabyte in terms of quality and customer support rep. On a side note, I couldn't give a company any of my money if they can't make an effort to translate a lot of their manuals and cd drivers into proper English (yes, I'm looking at you Gigabyte).

While the Gigabyte 970 has a higher clock rate, issues of coil whine and the sheer size of the thing throws me off of it. The 970 is so easily overclockable, I'd rather a great card from a quality manufacturer that has 5 star (egg) reviews and then overclock that.

Performance difference between the two? Very minimal.

 

[Slipperss]

issues of coil whine

I've heard about that, is this something to be worried about?
Can I send it back if it has got it?
What is the chance a card will have coil whine?

 

[ferwindjacks]

I would worry about it if a lot of the reviews do.

Not sure about Gigabytes warranty but I'd say within a month you can send it back if you order from Amazon or Newegg.

Don't know the percentage of the coil whine issues, 'luck' of the draw is probably determining it. You really can't go wrong with Asus. Plus, is that huge Gigabyte card even going to fit in your case if you buy it?

 

[Slipperss]

Plus, is that huge Gigabyte card even going to fit in your case if you buy it?

I got the Obisidian 700D case or something like that, It's like parking a car in a warehouse

Thanks for pointing out the coil whine, I'll have to look into it and see if its the Gigabyte i go with or not.