PC-console building

[kristianity77]

Sharu said:

kristianity77 said:

Sharu said:

kristianity77 said:
For a start, gaming at 720p, 4GB Ram is totally fine.

GTX750 Ti would be a decent card for 720 gaming. And wouldn't necessarily require you to get a new PSU to support it.

Regards to CPU I'm not sure. First off, upgrade the video card and then test a few games and see where you are at. But for "only" 720p on a PC, I doubt your too far off the mark already if you upgrade your video card.

In fact I'm playing Diablo3 on my PC on highest on 1080p/no AA currently with 50-60 fps. But Metro Last Light was totally unplayable for me, even on low with 640x480.

Which version of Metro were you playing though.  Pretty sure the original releases were absolute system hogs for no apparent reason.  The recent "remastered" versions though give the same result, for a lot less power.

Don't remember, was trying to play it this Spring, it was the latest Metro game IIRC. 

Yep.  They are the old versions.  The new releases will play "better".  How much better I'm not sure but they will.

The problem you have as far as I can see it is that with your CPU, your already at the top end of what your motherboard can handle in terms of having a good CPU.  If you were to improve that, then your going to have to spend on a new motherboard also.  So that part, I'd upgrade last if necessary or else it will start to get costly.  There are a couple of CPU upgrades you can do though that would just be a swap (IE  X6800) but the gains would be minimal I would expect.

Really, its the Video Card you need to upgrade first as thats what is going to hold you back more than any other component at 720p