I think it would be best to get new cpu/mobo.
However, does your current motherboard support FX chips, and do you overclock?
I recently spent $119 at microcenter to get an FX-6300. After overclocking, my Starcraft 2 performance went from ~45 frames to ~70 frames in a typical 3v3 huge battle. But without overclocking the FX-6300, it was about tied with a heavily overclocked Phenom II. Anyway, it's an option if you want to spend about $120. Oh forgot that I also got a free motherboard from microcenter in the combo deal, but I'm just going to try to sell it along with the old PHenom II chip.
Anyway like I said it would have been better to get an intel mobo and perhaps a 3570K chip, maybe I'd get like 100 frames in my Starcraft 2 benchmark 3v3 battle replay? But I mean, my issue is I spent around $120 to get my frames from 45 to 70. Did I want to spend $400 to get my frames from 45 to 100 or 120 in starcraft 2 (I don't know what a 3570K would do in my particular replay that I used to benchmark starcraft 2, I really wish there was a built-in benchmark for that game!). I just think that maybe it's a fine compromise to just replace your CPU for very cheap, if it can tide you over for now.
Then do the ultimate upgrade to Haswell. That's my plan, spent $120 to tide me over till Haswell, *then* blow my wad on a new CPU+mobo.
). I really want to upgrade to a newer motherboard and cpu and ram but shelling out roughly 400 bucks, I'm really wondering how much more performance I'll get compared to now. like right now with crysis 3(it's my go to with deciding since that and witcher 2 are sort of the 'next level' in terms of graphics performance is concerned, correct me if I'm wrong) with absolutely everything cranked up I get roughly 30 to 60 fps depending on where I am in game, but I typically hover around 40-45 on the average. there is the occasional micro stutter where it leaps down to unplayables but that only happens like once every two hours. most noticeably is when a level first starts after loading there's about a five second period when it's a little low then just jumps into the smooth. the reason I'm wondering is if its the limitation of the gtx 670. in games like batman ac and even World of Warcraft I'm not getting a steady framerate. like if I jump to a current gen cpu would i magically get 60fps constants at 1920x1080 in slightly less intense games? or am I expecting way too much from my GPU, which I did notice was a huge improvement over the gtx 550 ti I upgraded it from.
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