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what should i upgrade?

braxton7

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Nov 5, 2013
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well its been killing me and i need a 3rd person view, i have a i5 760 (its over clocked to 3.1 ghz) and the mother board is an asus idk it has modern features sata 6gbs etc only thing is that it doesnt support sli and my gpu is a gtx 660ti sc 2gb and idk which to upgrade i have an ssd plenty of ram and these are the things i narrowed it down to any suggestions are apprecated.
*the motherboard is an ASUS P7P55D and the cpu is oc to the point where it wont go any higher gets to hot my cpu cooler isnt the issue either. im getting low fps on arma 3 is what brung this up and the gpu is oc 75mhz on clock and 325mhz on memory
 
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The Core i5 1st gen socket 1156, is consider old compared to today's components. I don't see a upgrade yet because your system is still has some life in it. Upgrade when it's really, really necessary, not upgrade just because something new has arrived.
To make your system look much superior, my main computer that I'm still using, runs on socket 775!
Yes it's ancient, but it also have the latest parts like a SSD, SATA 6Gb/s ports, and USB 3.0 ports via add on cards.
Post the board you have and then we may know if it supports SLI or not.
Overclocking usually shortens the lifespan of a unit in my experience. See if you can sell the MB and the GPU, then use what you get from that to buy a new CPU and MB. You would probably end up saving more money that way.
 
The Core i5 1st gen socket 1156, is consider old compared to today's components. I don't see a upgrade yet because your system is still has some life in it. Upgrade when it's really, really necessary, not upgrade just because something new has arrived.
To make your system look much superior, my main computer that I'm still using, runs on socket 775!
Yes it's ancient, but it also have the latest parts like a SSD, SATA 6Gb/s ports, and USB 3.0 ports via add on cards.
Post the board you have and then we may know if it supports SLI or not.
 
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