You are viewing our Forum Archives. To view or take place in current topics click here.
Constructive critisism on what to do with an old 1156.
Posted:

Constructive critisism on what to do with an old 1156.Posted:

Linear
  • TTG Senior
Status: Offline
Joined: Dec 31, 201013Year Member
Posts: 1,255
Reputation Power: 41
Status: Offline
Joined: Dec 31, 201013Year Member
Posts: 1,255
Reputation Power: 41
So, as we all know, the 1156 socket is obsolete. A few years ago i bought such a system, it's had some upgrades but really it's i3 550 is bottle-necking even a Sapphire 6670.

The plan is to get probably a i5-4* CPU for around 150, with a cheap motherboard 50/60 (have experience with cheaper motherboards), get a new case (50) get a and reuse the HDD/RAM/Graphics card from the older system.


Hopefully this will give me a 'new' PC for around 230.

Any flaws in this plan? Anything you'd do different?
#2. Posted:
Craig
  • Rated Awesome
Status: Offline
Joined: Jan 16, 201212Year Member
Posts: 20,271
Reputation Power: 17066
Motto: 2b || !2b
Motto: 2b || !2b
Status: Offline
Joined: Jan 16, 201212Year Member
Posts: 20,271
Reputation Power: 17066
Motto: 2b || !2b
All depends on if you need the i5, if not the 6300 twinned with a Asus M5A97 EVO is a great and cheaper option.

Have a look around to see what you need it for...
#3. Posted:
Boxty
  • TTG Undisputed
Status: Offline
Joined: Jun 11, 201014Year Member
Posts: 5,622
Reputation Power: 346
Status: Offline
Joined: Jun 11, 201014Year Member
Posts: 5,622
Reputation Power: 346
[ Register or Signin to view external links. ]

Well thats one of the cheapest current gen i5's with a cheap ASUS board and a solid case.
#4. Posted:
r00t
  • Administrator
Status: Offline
Joined: May 18, 201113Year Member
Posts: 16,419
Reputation Power: 24469
Status: Offline
Joined: May 18, 201113Year Member
Posts: 16,419
Reputation Power: 24469
That i3 is certainly not bottlenecking the 6670. Upgrade the card if you want to improve gaming performance.
#5. Posted:
Linear
  • TTG Senior
Status: Offline
Joined: Dec 31, 201013Year Member
Posts: 1,255
Reputation Power: 41
Status: Offline
Joined: Dec 31, 201013Year Member
Posts: 1,255
Reputation Power: 41
FPS not changing when changing graphic settings, the card should honestly do way better than what it currently does (from both youtube/benchmarks). Can you suggest anything more accurate to prove/disprove this?

Also, most of my other PC's are geared towards physics programming, and the i5's are pretty good at this.
#6. Posted:
r00t
  • Administrator
Status: Offline
Joined: May 18, 201113Year Member
Posts: 16,419
Reputation Power: 24469
Status: Offline
Joined: May 18, 201113Year Member
Posts: 16,419
Reputation Power: 24469
Linear wrote FPS not changing when changing graphic settings, the card should honestly do way better than what it currently does (from both youtube/benchmarks). Can you suggest anything more accurate to prove/disprove this?

Also, most of my other PC's are geared towards physics programming, and the i5's are pretty good at this.

The 6670 is a very low-end card and in BF3, you'll need to have the settings very, very low to get playable FPS. That i3 performs close to a Phenom II X4 and it has Hyperthreading. There's simply no way that the CPU is the limiting factor in your system unless something is messed up.

[ Register or Signin to view external links. ]
Jump to:
You are viewing our Forum Archives. To view or take place in current topics click here.