Hiya guys, I want to buy a Sapphire 7870 & a 530W Thermaltake PSU. But as you'll soon see I'm going to be bottlenecked quite a bit by my old hardware and I'd like to know by how much in relatively new games like Bioshock Infinite and Crysis 3 and some older ones like Metro 2033.

Relative specs:
AMD Athlon 62 X2 4600+
4GB RAM @ 800Mhz
Asus M3N78 EMH HDMI

Gaming at 1080P, would appreciate some solid figures!

That dual core is a serious bottleneck for Crysis 3, I mean VERY serious. I don't know about Bioshock Infinite, but IIRC Metro 2033 is not suposed to be very CPU-intensive. What GPU do you have now?

Athlon 62? When did they ever make 62 bit processors?





(on a serious note, yes, Crysis 2/3 hates dual/single cores)