Low FPS in game. Rate my comp specs and tell me what I need to upgrade. Tech pro pls

[Mugen_Vtec]

No prob! You can go here: http://pcpartpicker.com/ once you select a CPU, they'll match up the compatible motherboard, ram, etc for you. As for other people saying that you shouldn't build one from scratch since you're kind of new with all this..I say go ahead. You have to start somewhere, sometime. Those premade OEM computers are generally crap, and overpriced. Youtube has really good videos as to how to build a computer. It really isn't that hard, pretty much it's bolt on, and plug and play. Well, the difference with the CPUs right now is the number of cores. The i5s have 4 physical cores, and the i7s have 8 cores (although 4 of the come from hyperthreading, so you still have 4 physical cores). People say there's not much of a difference between the two in gaming since games do not use hyper threading as of now. And that people generally go for the i7s for photoediting/video editing. So up to you as to what kind of cpu you want. They're both more than capable.

[Astralen]

What you are saying is HALF true depending on the system specs. If you look at the available brands of sound cards compared to 10 years ago you'll understand why sound cards are GONERS. The CPU's of today are PLENTY MORE than capable of handling sound without even touching 1% utilization on the CPU. I am a moderator on overclockers.com and am an avid desktop / server builder along with overclocking all of my systems.

I would like to add that the sound quality of on-board sound chips is sub-par to real sound cards like Asus Xonar or the new Creative cards. This is probably the reason why big companies like Gigabyte started to launch motherboards (G1.Sniper 5) with high quality chips by Creative.

GPU/VGA: test it with your actual gpu, and please wait the release of the new brand of amd radeon cards. rumos october xD

I disagree unless OP is running the game in low resolutions or wants to use lower in-game detail settings. In my opinion he should at least go for a 660Ti or better. Why not put a little bit more money now instead of upgrading later.
True that the Volcanic Island series by AMD will be launched in conjunction with the release of BF4 in October but we're not sure about the pricing, the state of the drivers and so forth. I'm sure that AMD will go a good job this time with the drivers but if OP just wants to play now instead of in 1½ months, I'd go for nVidia. Hell, lets not choose sides here, an AMD 7970 are quite cheap and have 3GB VRAM which is quite nice while playing in high resolutions and using any form of AA.

[ryan92084]

Best bang for your buck will be a new graphics card but you won't get full performance out of it without replacing the cpu which requires a new motherboard.