Artgathan, on 17 July 2013 - 10:03 AM, said:
A big shout out to everyone who gave advice and recommendations! Thank you all very much. I finally received all the parts (I went with the I5 3570K CPU) and assembled it earlier this week.
Previously on my laptop I was getting about 7-10 FPS with all the settings on low. With my new PC I get 80-100 FPS with the settings on Ultra High (no overclocking involved). If you guys are interested in how it performs on other games (Tomb Raider, Crysis 3 and Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon all came free with the GPU) I can post those up as well. Later this month I'll also be re-downloading Planetside 2 to test that out as well.
Thanks, you guys have vastly improved my gaming experience
Previously on my laptop I was getting about 7-10 FPS with all the settings on low. With my new PC I get 80-100 FPS with the settings on Ultra High (no overclocking involved). If you guys are interested in how it performs on other games (Tomb Raider, Crysis 3 and Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon all came free with the GPU) I can post those up as well. Later this month I'll also be re-downloading Planetside 2 to test that out as well.
Thanks, you guys have vastly improved my gaming experience

Cool. If you get a chance make sure and add to the systems benchmark thread.