Hi guys, I will start this off by saying that I am more than excited about the release of this game and it can't get here quickly enough!! Me and my wife are looking forward to being able to play together and thoroughly enjoy this game from top to bottom.

I have recently decided to make a small upgrade to my system that I built a couple of years ago and wanted to come here to get some technical advice from you guys who probably know more about what to upgrade than I do I assume that a processor would likely be a bit more important than a graphics card, but you know what they say about assumptions.

Currently I have a AMD Radeon 6700 HD series graphics card which does pretty good while I play other online games. What I am considering replacing, though, is my processor. It is a "Intel Pentium G620 Sandy Bridge 2.6 Ghz LGA 1155 65 W Dual Core Desktop Processor Intel HD Graphics". I even already have a newer Mobo from when I thought my current one was crapping out (turned out to be my power supply which I upgraded to 600w) so I could slap both of them in my PC before starting this game.

I guess my question is what would someone who may be more technically savvy than me do here? I am ok at putting these things together, I just haven't quite learned all the ins and outs of what to upgrade first and why.

Anyway, thanks in advance for all of your help and hope to see you in beta (my wife was lucky enough to get in, not me...) and can't wait for the release!!

Get a CPU compatible with your new board, the best you can afford.

I would recommend i5 or i7 if you can afford i7.

LGA 1155 socket will take i7 but double check in the motherboard manual exact CPU models your board supports.

Personally I would not keep a board older than 2 years and spend money on good CPU.

I don't know anything about AMD cards, I have been using Nvidia since 2000. You say: "couple of years ago" if it's been more than 3 years since you bought that PC I would change GFX card too, because CPU upgrade will not improve things much with 3 year old card. The system will now bottleneck on GFX card.

It's always better to upgrade gradually and every 6-12 months, then you don't waste that much money, you just swap things, sell old, get most of the money back, buy better stuff...

It's not that hard to get into it, google is your friend...