Should I upgrade my cpu for BF3?

[biggyk]

Been playing with the alpha lately and it an amazing game. However I noticed that Im pulling basiclly 30fps. Its not bad actually I can play on high no problem but Im wondering if my cpu needs an upgrade and will it boost my fps?

Im running a gigabyte GTX 460 1gig and Athlon 2 x3 3.0ghz , 4gigs DDR3

I have considered a phenom 2 x6

Thanks

[_dangtx_]

what are the complete specs?

before upgrading perhaps boost it up a few hundred mhz.

and your card could keep you back too

[krajee]

As well, what size display are you using?

[biggyk]

Im running at 1920x1080.

Im running 2 monitors, the 2nd is 1280x1024.

Ram is 4gig DDR3 1600

Mobo is Gigabyte 770t-usb3

[biggyk]

I ran a gpu monitor while playing and here is a log file when I played a match.

[Perineum]

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but those times the GPU is less than 9x% should be the times that your CPU is holding up the action, no?

[Silvgearx]

I think the 9x% is a driver/gpuz bug.

Maybe record a CPU log too?

[neojjjk]

take this one
Newegg.ca - AMD Phenom II X6 1100T Black Edition Thuban 3.3GHz, 3.7GHz Turbo 6 x 512KB L2 Cache 6MB L3 Cache Socket AM3 125W Six-Core Desktop Processor HDE00ZFBGRBOX

or

Newegg.ca - AMD Phenom II X4 980 Black Edition Deneb 3.7GHz 4 x 512KB L2 Cache 6MB L3 Cache Socket AM3 125W Quad-Core Desktop Processor HDZ980FBGMBOX

[MAC]

Go for an X6 1090T, great Bang for the Buck at $170.

Just the L3 cache alone will significantly help your frame rates.

[biggyk]

Cool, il look into that. thanks