Hey there!
At the moment I'm running:
Gigabyte Ga-H55m-Udh2
Intel Core i3-530 @ 4.07 GHZ
Radeon HD5770 @ stock
8 GB of Kingston Ram
128 GB SSD + 1TB HDD
I'm a gamer. But now with the new Guild Wars 2 it seems that my little i3 becomes the bottleneck concerning FPS which go down to 15 in a lot of cases and the fun of gaming is really destroyed because I'm able to count the Frames when there is a big PVP battle or a big city.
I'm actually not sure if it even is a hardware sided problem but since a friend of mine is running the same GPU but an i5 processor and doesn't have problems with FPS at all it kinda looks like the CPU is the problem.
My budget isn't the biggest. Still i want to get something for the future. I'm looking especially at an i5-3570K or an i7-3770K and a Gigabyte GA-Z77X-D3H Mainboard and still have a few questions:
1) Is the i5 processor enough for playing games and doing standard office things or will it become the next bottleneck in 2 years where the i7 would still be OK? - I've read a lot on the net and can't find a solution. Some forums say its not worth for a gamer getting for the i7 others do say so.
2) Is the mainboard ok? I don't have much knowledge about what a mainboard should have/not have.
3) Whats the matter with the K after the names? Am I ok going for the ones without the K too? I'm not planing to OC much if it isn't necessary.
Edit: Here a pic of gw2 ingame with 19 FPS @ everything at lowest setting(looks crappy). By the way: when I raise the grapic settings to max.. i get about 17-18 fps. So there's definately a software issue or the i3 is simply too slow.
http://img823.imageshack.us/img823/9911/gw001ha.jpg
Hope you guys can help me!
Greetings
At the moment I'm running:
Gigabyte Ga-H55m-Udh2
Intel Core i3-530 @ 4.07 GHZ
Radeon HD5770 @ stock
8 GB of Kingston Ram
128 GB SSD + 1TB HDD
I'm a gamer. But now with the new Guild Wars 2 it seems that my little i3 becomes the bottleneck concerning FPS which go down to 15 in a lot of cases and the fun of gaming is really destroyed because I'm able to count the Frames when there is a big PVP battle or a big city.
I'm actually not sure if it even is a hardware sided problem but since a friend of mine is running the same GPU but an i5 processor and doesn't have problems with FPS at all it kinda looks like the CPU is the problem.
My budget isn't the biggest. Still i want to get something for the future. I'm looking especially at an i5-3570K or an i7-3770K and a Gigabyte GA-Z77X-D3H Mainboard and still have a few questions:
1) Is the i5 processor enough for playing games and doing standard office things or will it become the next bottleneck in 2 years where the i7 would still be OK? - I've read a lot on the net and can't find a solution. Some forums say its not worth for a gamer getting for the i7 others do say so.
2) Is the mainboard ok? I don't have much knowledge about what a mainboard should have/not have.
3) Whats the matter with the K after the names? Am I ok going for the ones without the K too? I'm not planing to OC much if it isn't necessary.
Edit: Here a pic of gw2 ingame with 19 FPS @ everything at lowest setting(looks crappy). By the way: when I raise the grapic settings to max.. i get about 17-18 fps. So there's definately a software issue or the i3 is simply too slow.
http://img823.imageshack.us/img823/9911/gw001ha.jpg
Hope you guys can help me!
Greetings
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