Benchmark is telling us something...

[Nixxe]

Replacing a cpu isn't something a lot of us could do
And it's not just any part..it's the cpu that stormblood is really asking a lot of

A good CPU is cheaper than a PS4.

[seraf]

A good CPU is cheaper than a PS4.

Pretty much any decent quad-core CPU released in the past 3-4 years should be fine and the new AMD Ryzen CPU's are in the budget friendly range. It's mostly the people on really old AMD CPU's and old intel i3's that seem to be getting the short straw here.

[ToasterMan]

Pretty much any decent quad-core CPU released in the past 3-4 years should be fine and the new AMD Ryzen CPU's are in the budget friendly range. It's mostly the people on really old AMD CPU's and old intel i3's that seem to be getting the short straw here.

Seems right. When I did the bench mark I got around a little over 14000 and like I said my computer is a little under 3 years old. I wasn't running it at max settings though. It's just that when I upgrade something, I want to be sure that what I have can play any game that I would want to play. I'm always concerned about future proofing too. I don't want to have to go back frequently for upgrades because I find myself constantly getting left behind.