Rhino unvaulting's got me back in and keen. Cheers to Rupert, Rapid and all the other contributors for your work keeping the clan developed and available to we less dedicated duders.
@sleepinglesson: Plenty of guns use clips, or perhaps they were using Mass Effect weaponry. I do however love the terrible pun of unloading a full magazine into VR's chances (though it's a little misleading since it's only actually one article)
Not sure where in Aus you are but with a bit of searching you should be able to find a somewhat nearby range that'll let you fire pistols and rifles, though anything automatic is out of the question.
I haven't used many guns but it seems to me if you want your games to feel authentic you really need to turn your speakers up as high as they go, then turn them up some more. At least with low caliber weapons the sheer magnitude of the sound struck me as the thing that games really couldn't capture. I can only imagine how ball shatteringly deafening an active warzone would be.
I'm still running an old ass q9450 (stock 2.66GHz i think), though it's OC'd at ~3.5GHz. Also using a HD 7970 (slightly faster than a GTX 670). I haven't tried to run games with my cpu stock in a while but OC'd I can run Sleeping Dogs and Saint's 3 without any slowdown (I do generally turn off SSAO though, I prefer a fairly negligible quality drop for guaranteed 60fps).
My processor's a different architecture to yours but a quick search seems to suggest that the 920 handles overclocking reasonably well, so my advice would probably be to give that a shot. Do be careful though - be sure to make changes incrementally rather than just jumping to 4GHz XD. The overclocking process was a bit of a joke for me, just pumped all the numbers up and the CPU took it like a champ (I wasn't trying to push its limits though, just keep it relevant).
Don't expect to get far with overclocking if you're using a stock cooler - you can have a dabble to see if there's any change in performance but if you want significant results you'll need to invest in an aftermarket heatsink. At that point you'll need to weigh buying a product that you most likely won't be able to use on another computer against just essentially buying a new computer - I'm not up to date on current processors but I doubt you'll get away with buying a new CPU without needing a new motherboard and maybe RAM too. Factoring in the potential jump in graphical quality (and thus requirements) that may accompany new consoles either choice seems like it's probably OK.
Sorry to ramble - figured you should know about my experience as it seems like you're in a pretty similar situation to where I was at the start of last year. Overclocking definitely worked out for me, my (mostly) early 2009 computer's smashing BF4 with ease (though this is a bit of a disappointment in itself - Crysis came out months after the first iPhone).
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