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BF4 PC Configs
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Hence the word "ancient" :P
And upgrading the CPU is a limited sort of thing, there aren't too many AM3 socket cpus left at reasonable prices (you *can* get a phenom II X4 but they're not cheap, and there's also the point that we don't really know how well BF4 improves with multiple cores).
Nix the SLI idea as well, I doublechecked the motherboard to discover no SLI support at all.
Hang on. €300 or so for a cpu, €150 for a new graphics card, €50-odd for "premium" membership and €45 for the game itself?
Y'know, I might just turn down the graphics and get on with what I have and laugh every time I beat someone with hardware that costs twice what I have
(Besides, you've got fancier hardware, I've got an 11 ping :P )
I've an AMD Phenom II X4 3.2GHz lying around at home, is somebody looking for one?0 -
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Going to give this a try tonight and see what happens. Upgrading the CPU is going to wait for payday, but the prices on the X6s don't look too horrible on ebay at least and if that gets me to the point where I'm bound by the 560Ti, well feck lads, I'd be happy. I mean, how much detail do you really need? If I wanted ALL THE DETAILS, I'd join the armyThat Athlon II x3 it should do 3.5-3.8ghz comfortably on air cooling.
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Going to give this a try tonight and see what happens. Upgrading the CPU is going to wait for payday, but the prices on the X6s don't look too horrible on ebay at least and if that gets me to the point where I'm bound by the 560Ti, well feck lads, I'd be happy. I mean, how much detail do you really need? If I wanted ALL THE DETAILS, I'd join the army :pac:
Check your pms sparks.0 -
Hmm. Ambitious start to overclocking and tried 4GHz right off the bat - and of course, no go, wouldn't even post. Reset CMOS, try a more reasonable 3.5GHz and everything looks stable so far under Prime95. Stuck in Hellrazer's user.cfg (along with an addition to draw the perf graph just for fun) and tried it in anger. Better, but I'm still seeing a massive CPU spike the moment someone starts to shoot at me, which results in my freezing up for a split second - usually long enough for them to ruin my whole day. Le sigh. I guess there's an X6 in my future come the next paycheque
I mean, I don't need lots of detail in the video but if I can't even react on the lowest setting with fps locked, then it's pretty naff. 0 -
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And now bumped up to 3.7GHz and still looking stable so far, even thermally (holding at 45-46C with the artic fan). Might keep trying to poke it upwards, but I think the ultimate answer is a second-hand X6 1100T (or something close to it), and once that's in, that's probably the last cheap upgrade for this box done, everything else is going to require some large changes (as in, motherboard replacements or the like).try a more reasonable 3.5GHz and everything looks stable so far
The good news is, it's very very playable now
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hm. Tweaked FOV down to 70 (what was it doing at 100?) and things are now so much better
It should be at 110, anything less than 90 is for console peasants
Just make the young fella work harder in school when the time comes, he'll need the scholarship as you need to spend the college fund on a proper pc. :pac:
SSD is now on top of my shopping list, my friend who I regularly squad with gets into game almost a full minute ahead of me whilst I'm waiting for the game to load.
TIL that having the game in "borderless" rather than fullscreen seems to have added another small amount of stability. Every little helps...0 -
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Y'see, you say that now, but you forget that our other halves talk. And read here.It should be at 110, anything less than 90 is for console peasants Just make the young fella work harder in school when the time comes, he'll need the scholarship as you need to spend the college fund on a proper pc. :pac:
And I had fov at 100, but the box couldn't keep up. We'll see how it does with an X6 in it and if that takes the load off, I'll widen the FOV again.
But to be honest, I prefer a 70 FOV and not freezing whenever my cpu has to render someone shooting at me to 180 FOV and going all rabbit-in-headlights whenever a gunfight happens. And so does my k/d ratio :P
Can't get one, have to get two and work them in RAID0 for when one fails completely without warning a year after you buy itSSD is now on top of my shopping list, my friend who I regularly squad with gets into game almost a full minute ahead of me whilst I'm waiting for the game to load.
And if you thought I need to spend dosh to beef up my rig, you haven't checked the prices on decent SSDs these days yet 0 -
I'm in the very fortunate position of having all my Christmas presents for people already bought, so next payday is mine and mine alone You're right of course, I'm looking for a 500 gig one, so that's €300 give or take 0
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SSD I get 3 load screens and im in, yitsack on normal drive and gets 14 or so.
Because there is no holding time limit, I have found on Rush I can be on top of the 1st set of mcoms before a lot of the other team are even spawned in.
Plus i always get the attack boats 0 -
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Yay, you can buy victory.
So basicly, DICE and EA are doing their best to get you out of mommy's basement and into high-paying jobs so you can win faster?
Yeesh. Something very broken there
And shim, you know the next paycheque is only ever yours until it arrives, at which point six things break simultaenously and two of them are always critical and need to be paid for right this instant 0 -
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