Vashyo said:
Bolded part - I war referring to OPs setup not yours I asked you whetever it was ready built or you built it yourself, you didnt really answer me, but just told me to keep my schoolyard quibs out of it...but yes I propably should have worded it differently, so sorry. =( First issue I would have pointed out was that ready built ones usually come with an achilles heel. It's usually weak CPU or GPU, If you had told me the parts you used I could have talked about that, well atleast now you told me about some of them. i3 is not top of the line, it's budget line dual core, I have no idea why u paid so much for it, games are allready using 4 cores effectively, its just not going to cut it anymore. Dont find it a suprise you have problems with CiV since it has more and more data to track the longer you play, especially if you play with huge world setup with tons of AI opponents. your i3 is likely also bottlenecking your GPU in CPU intensive games like CiV. The OPs setup is about right in this aspect, I would not recommend upgrading that setup ever though unless he upgrades CPU/GPU/mobo all together, just slapping an expensive +200$ GPU in it is propably not recommendable with that 750k. Also hows your system processes? Maybe you have way too many processes running on the background? My computer is just as fast as it was the day when I bought it simply because I don't have any unnecessary software hogging resources, just antivirus and firewall. I've actually even disabled some windows 7 processes that I don't need, just to optimize my CPUs strength for the games I'm playing. Since you have only 2 cores this might affect you strongly.
I'm sceptical on the console performance right now, I'm expecting OPs comp to play comfortably until next gen ends with similar level graphics as the consoles at similar performance with this setup, it's not gonna max every game, but neither will the consoles. I feel you're propably bit exaggerating their performance, we're still strong in hype with some devs stating sub 1080p/60FPS performance in games. So I'd rather wait some Digitalfoundry articles first. |
I didn't pay a lot for the i3. I had originally got a core 2 duo when core 2 duo first came out. It was among the fastest processors available. The i3, while budget, was nearly 3x faster 6 years later.
And yeah my processes are nearly nil. Trust me, I know what I'm doing, which is also why I know that a rig like the OP won't last. Like you said, you'd have to upgrade everything. It's a good rig for now, and beating the xb1 cost and performance makes it a contender, but it still lacks kinect2, and doesn't come close to ps4. IMO
