Friend is looking to upgrade his CPU only.
He thinks his board is this- MSI Z68A-G43
I went right to the motherboard CPU support page here- http://us.msi.com/support/mb/Z68AG43_G3.html#support-cpu
I told him the 3570K was the cpu to have from what I had read. He doesn't intend to do any OC but does game and likes as much eye candy as possible. Far Cry 3 and Dying Light are probably the most recent titles I'm aware of and I'm going to guess Battlefront.
His current setup
CPU- i3-2100
RAM- 8GB (unsure of other spec)
GFX- 770 4GB
I wasn't able to get a ton of detail from him on if he was having issues with it bottlenecking or not. What I was also thinking is.. is there a good upgrade CPU that would also allow him to upgrade to 16GB ram for under $150-175?
Looks like the 3570(Non K) are going for about $150. 8GB kits of ram appear to be really cheap so it would just be finding that happy medium cpu.
*Update-- Welp, I guess he already bought something. Not sure what it is though. Sorry.
He thinks his board is this- MSI Z68A-G43
I went right to the motherboard CPU support page here- http://us.msi.com/support/mb/Z68AG43_G3.html#support-cpu
I told him the 3570K was the cpu to have from what I had read. He doesn't intend to do any OC but does game and likes as much eye candy as possible. Far Cry 3 and Dying Light are probably the most recent titles I'm aware of and I'm going to guess Battlefront.
His current setup
CPU- i3-2100
RAM- 8GB (unsure of other spec)
GFX- 770 4GB
I wasn't able to get a ton of detail from him on if he was having issues with it bottlenecking or not. What I was also thinking is.. is there a good upgrade CPU that would also allow him to upgrade to 16GB ram for under $150-175?
Looks like the 3570(Non K) are going for about $150. 8GB kits of ram appear to be really cheap so it would just be finding that happy medium cpu.
*Update-- Welp, I guess he already bought something. Not sure what it is though. Sorry.