Quote Originally Posted by z3n View Post
Personally I've always found GPU's make far more of an impact on my FPS than a CPU nowadays. For example moving from a 3770k to an 8086k did almost nothing for my FPS in AC Origins, despite it being somewhat of a CPU intensive game.
For more intensive games a stronger GPU is certainly key, but for my varied purposes, a stronger CPU tends to do better, particularly in single core. Kinda helps me compensate for an inability to blow out hundreds of bucks on any particular component, graphics cards especially.