worth the cost? upgrade
ull need buy a 1155 or a 1150 motherboard depending of ur i5 cpu, ur currently have an am3+ motherboard wich is not compatible with intels.
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What Alex said is true, so that’s another $100-200 to the upgrade. Also if your Windows is OEM version you have to get another one
i5-4670K @ 4.6 GHz | GTX 660 | 8GB @ 1600MHz | Samsung 840 EVO 120GB | Win 8.1
The 8320 is a rather capable cpu, so unless you are really wanting to try and inch out as much as you can from this game, an i5-4670k won’t particularly be much of an upgrade.
As far as the OEM copy of Windows, you will be able to reuse that, so no worries there. (If you don’t have experience with it, if you run into issues activating online, activate by phone and that should work just fine. I have a 100% success rate with such on both personal machines and client machines with hardware changes. It’s “supposed” to be tied to a single motherboard, but you can reuse.)
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Currently running amd fx8320 with a GTX 660 wanting to upgrade to an I5 would I have to buy a new windows too ?
Yes. ._. I changed from an FX-8350 to an i7 4770K. I will not go back.
Currently running amd fx8320 with a GTX 660 wanting to upgrade to an I5 would I have to buy a new windows too ?
depends on what version your windows is. If you bought a prebuilt system, or used a oem version when you built, then yes.
if you used a retail version then no.
[ICoa] Blackgate
I’m pretty sure you can deactivate the product key of a retail version and re-use it. that would be a kitten move to have to spend 70-300 dollars on a product key to not be able to re-use it if you need to.
yeah thats what i meant, oem versions that prebuilt systems usually come with cannot be moved and are locked to a specific model of mother board after activation.
Retail versions have transferable keys.
[ICoa] Blackgate
From what I’ve read you sometimes can reuse the OEM key if you indeed make the call during transfer, but that’s against the terms of the OEM license. Being able to is not the same thing than being allowed to. Why they let it happen if you make the call however is beyond my knowledge. Here’s a bit more on the subject
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