paowee Posted September 1, 2013 Share Posted September 1, 2013 I have a M5A97 ASUSTEK AM3 socket MOBO and not really keen on buying a new motherboard just to swap to intel... CPU: I am thinking of getting AMD FX-8350 Eight-Core (Passmark Score is 9,109 for $199) compared to Intel Core i5-4670K @ 3.40GHz Score 7,552 and costs $239 GPU: Radeon HD 7950 (Passmark score 4609 for $210) compared to GeForce GTX 660 Ti Score is 4,697 for $234.99 Is this set up good for running swtor with bloom and shadows in 1920 resolution? 16-man too? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaShuk Posted September 2, 2013 Share Posted September 2, 2013 Not sure, but I'd honestly think twice before spending $400 for this MMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaberBladeUK Posted September 5, 2013 Share Posted September 5, 2013 Don't bother with a new processor just yet as your issues could easily be solved by a new graphics card (although this really does depend on your current system). As for the card you've picked, it would be more than enough. You just need to make sure that A: it will fit inside your case and B: your power supply has the required spare sockets to power the bloody thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
captpickles Posted September 5, 2013 Share Posted September 5, 2013 (edited) I have a M5A97 ASUSTEK AM3 socket MOBO and not really keen on buying a new motherboard just to swap to intel... CPU: I am thinking of getting AMD FX-8350 Eight-Core (Passmark Score is 9,109 for $199) compared to Intel Core i5-4670K @ 3.40GHz Score 7,552 and costs $239 GPU: Radeon HD 7950 (Passmark score 4609 for $210) compared to GeForce GTX 660 Ti Score is 4,697 for $234.99 Is this set up good for running swtor with bloom and shadows in 1920 resolution? 16-man too? I would STRONGLY reconsider amd. unless it is a very serious cost issue. from 12+ months ago : http://www.anandtech.com/show/6396/the-vishera-review-amd-fx8350-fx8320-fx6300-and-fx4300-tested/5 AMD tends to lag Intel quads by 10-20% in some games. Be it my opinion, if you insist on AMD, go for a older 6-core 1080t or 1090t on a 970 series main board from gigabyte and or asus or lastly asrock and spend more heavily on the gpu. the older 6core thuban cores have a higher ipc per mhz, and are more efficient even with ''idle core'' switched off. a word on resolutions. 1080p is what is killing you. you needs much MUCH bigger gpu hardware to run decent visuals at that rez. i would pretty much count on 250$-400$ for the gpu alone. Edited September 5, 2013 by captpickles Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
captpickles Posted September 5, 2013 Share Posted September 5, 2013 Bloom should remain off. your forcing the game to blend every single pixel on the screen.. pretty heavy overhead. also i'd consider 4x aa hard set in the ati panel or nvidia panel. shadows wont make to much of a difference since so little of them ate actually rendered. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thylbanus Posted September 9, 2013 Share Posted September 9, 2013 It will also depend on your RAM, the leak is still there, albeit significantly reduced, it is still there and will affect you, especially if you are below 4Gb. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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