KernelSander Posted December 13, 2015 Share Posted December 13, 2015 (edited) Hey guys you probably get these questions all the time but you as the community are the best weapon to use in these situations. I want to upgrade my processor without changing out the motherboard. I have aahd2-hy (holly2) motherboard and it has a AMD A4-3420 2.80 GHz installed right now. Other specs include 6 GB of stock Ram (came with computer), Nvidia GTX 750Ti Graphics card, 700w Corsair power supply. If more information is needed please let me know. I play ok on low settings (used a guide on youtube which helped my fps even though ingame it says settings are higher?) Link here: I would like a good recommendation on a processor that will play this game better WITHOUT upgrading my motherboard completely. I would not think my Graphics card is the problem or my ram either but let me know guys. Edited December 13, 2015 by KernelSander Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GalacticKegger Posted December 14, 2015 Share Posted December 14, 2015 (edited) From HP and Compaq Desktop PCs - Motherboard Specifications, AAHD2-HY (Holly) http://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c02966470: Processor Upgrade Information - 65W to 100W (processor dependent) - Socket type: FM1 Motherboard supports the following processor upgrades: AMD A8-3850 (Liano) quad core, 100WAMD A8-3800 (Liano) quad core, 65WAMD A6-3650 (Liano) quad core' 100WAMD A6-3600 (Liano) quad core' 65WAMD A4-3420 (Liano) dual core' 65W ← your current CPUAMD A4-3400 (Liano) dual core' 65WAMD E2-3200 (Liano) dual core' 65WAMD X2-198 (Sempron) dual core' 65WAMD X2-221 (Athlon II) dual core' 65W Edited December 14, 2015 by GalacticKegger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KernelSander Posted December 15, 2015 Author Share Posted December 15, 2015 That's awesome and all but which one of these would best run this game? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ALaggyGrunt Posted December 17, 2015 Share Posted December 17, 2015 The A8 3850. They're out of production, though. You might also look at upgrading the heatsink+fan, because that CPU is a little hotter and hungrier for power than your old one. P.S. The power supply is massive overkill. You could put an R9 390X (~275W) on that thing if you wanted, and it would work just fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KernelSander Posted December 17, 2015 Author Share Posted December 17, 2015 will the AMD A8-3870K work with this motherboard? and I know the powersupply is a bit overkill but when I originally upgraded my graphics card I was looking at getting a more power hungry card. I got the power supply dirt cheap on sale and got it in prep for the card. changed my mind later on the card decision so I stayed with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ALaggyGrunt Posted December 17, 2015 Share Posted December 17, 2015 It might. The motherboard doesn't say it will take it. Not only does it need to be pin-compatible (it is), but the BIOS needs to have the microcode for that particular APU, which lets the system work around errata (flaws in the CPU design which would cause bad results if they were executed). You can try, and it may or may not work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KernelSander Posted December 19, 2015 Author Share Posted December 19, 2015 ok I will probably stick with the A8 3850 just to make sure. How much better do you think I will play this game compared to what I have now? Thanks for all the feedback everyone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ALaggyGrunt Posted December 20, 2015 Share Posted December 20, 2015 If the game is the only thing running, very little. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KernelSander Posted December 24, 2015 Author Share Posted December 24, 2015 Looking to upgrade my motherboard so I can upgrade to an AMD FX-6300 6 core 3.5 GHz Processor. Do you think this will be a good upgrade for my pc for gaming? will I see a noticeable difference in fps or just a little hop up? Thanks for all the input everybody. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmird Posted January 7, 2016 Share Posted January 7, 2016 Looking to upgrade my motherboard so I can upgrade to an AMD FX-6300 6 core 3.5 GHz Processor. Do you think this will be a good upgrade for my pc for gaming? will I see a noticeable difference in fps or just a little hop up? Thanks for all the input everybody. Have you thought about looking at the Intel side of CPUs? Also, absolutely zero reason to take a "6" core over a 4 core for gaming. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amradheth Posted January 7, 2016 Share Posted January 7, 2016 You need a higher clock speed for this game. It runs ok on an intel around 4.0 ghz not sure what the amd = of that would be 5 ghz? XD jk i dunno. But you need a high clock speed to run it good so id look at an intel and overclock it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmird Posted January 8, 2016 Share Posted January 8, 2016 You need a higher clock speed for this game. It runs ok on an intel around 4.0 ghz not sure what the amd = of that would be 5 ghz? XD jk i dunno. But you need a high clock speed to run it good so id look at an intel and overclock it That's not really how processors work. Overclocking purely for gaming will not give you significant increases in performance. And I could say that about overclocking in general. It's half placebo. No reason at all to overclock anything higher than a 4 core i5. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MeNaCe-NZ Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 That's not really how processors work. Overclocking purely for gaming will not give you significant increases in performance. And I could say that about overclocking in general. It's half placebo. No reason at all to overclock anything higher than a 4 core i5. Whilst generally true for many games that's not true for this game - the more raw cpu speed you throw at ti the faster it runs due to how cpu bound it is where as most other games are gpu bound so overclocking doesn't do much until you're limited by your cpu speed again ( which rarely happens in most games ). Also if upgrading your motherboard go Intel if you want better performance, single core games like this suffer miserably under AMD compared to Intel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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