Hi all,

I have been happily playing BF3 (Premium) on my old rig - in fact I am still playing BF3 as we speak - but I was wondering if BF4 would run at all on this config:

Q9550, 8GB RAM, 4890 1GB, Samsung 840Pro SSD, Windows 7
(and a lot more crap that isn't relevant)

I've tried the BF4 demo and it ran like puppy diarrhoea through a coffee filter but it did for most folks with more recent rigs than mine. Unlike most, BF4 demo rarely crashed at my end, it just dipped to single level digits, even at all low settings.

So I was wondering if the final, patched and overhauled BF4 product would actually run any better or if my cash would be better spend on some more flat whites? (Being a Wellingtonian after all..)

My reason for asking is that I have been looking into upgrading the lot but when researching CPU benchmarks, I found that those new i5s surely are quicker .. but aren't blowing the Q9550 completely out of the water.  A high-spec i7 just isn't in the cards at the moment.