7 Year old PC with Core 2 Quad Q9550 8gb Ram work ok with UE4?

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I have a 7 Year old PC with Core 2 Quad Q9550 2.8Ghz with 8GB RAM with a Radeon 5750.

I plan to change the video card on my machine to a R7 265 if this will be enough for my machine to work well with UE4?

I plan to hold buying a new machine until Broadwell CPU come out next year.

I know my machine is 7 years old but it is still a quad core with 8GB ram as per UE4 system requirements.
So I was wondering if the video card upgrade is good enough for me use the engine/editor without any slowdowns when making games?

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I got a Q6600 overclocked to 3.2 GHz, 8 GB ram and a GF 660 GT. UE4 runs fine so with a graphics card upgrade you should be set!

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I am running with the r7 260x but have 6 core fx cpu and it is running ue4 nicely…You should be able to get by good enough with the 265…

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I have noticed Unreal Engine 4 is more GPU intensive then cpu, so try to stretch your GPU high as possible.

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Wow, thanks for all the replies… really gave me hope that all i need to change is my Video card for the moment.

Hi Creative Occlusion, if you don’t me asking, may I know what is your exact CPU model so I can compare it it to my CPU since I might just get the 260x instead of the 265 if the 260x does the job well enough?

Thank you very much

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I’m running on weaker Q9300 and it works fine.

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Great! May I ask what video card you are using and if you are able to run the editor with no hiccups? Thank you!