HD 7870 Bottleneck?

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Hi

I've been thinking about how to upgrade my pc over the last few days and thought it might be a good idea to get some advice/feedback on what I'm planning.

My immediate concern is having a working computer as my current one is an old Pentium D Compaq/Frankenstein I've cobbled together that just absolutely sucks at everything. As such, I just bought a Pentium G860 and 4 GB of basic Ram to keep me going for college work and multi-windowing browsing, 1080p video etc.

I do plan on gradually upgrading this to a high spec build over time - maybe over 18/24 months. Because of this I've actually purchased an Asus Maximus Gene mATX mobo, with a view to eventually upgrading the ram and OCing an Ivy Bridge quad-core.

My question is with regard to the graphics card. Right now I want to play games like SimCity, Assassins Creed 2, Dead Space 2 but would like something that is eventually going to be competitive with the next generation of consoles. I was thinking about picking up a HD 7870 to accomplish this.

Would this card be overkill for the G860 cpu? Would I be better off getting something a bit cheaper to keep me going for the next year or so until I have a better cpu installed?

I don't want to drop a load of cash on a card that my CPU can't handle, only to upgrade my CPU next year and find that my graphics card is already antiquated.

Maybe I'm better off with a HD 6670 for the interim?

Thanks for your input.

Edit: 500w PSU
 
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Ya you can get a 7790 or 7850 as recent games like skyrim crysis3 requires lot of CPU power along with GPU so the dual core might hold you back. But most 90% games will be very happy with the 3GHz @ 1080p requires some GPU power.

http://ark.intel.com/products/53492/Intel-Pentium-Proce...

Edit: The CPU cant be overclocked only K series processors can. slight overclock aint gonna give you...
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Well I won't be upgrading the processor for at least a year - I haven't even installed it yet and I have no intention of playing anything like Crysis 3 in the immediate future.

You think the G860 and a HD 7790 would be a good combination?

I know that it's not designed for it, but do you think I might be able to get a slight OC on the G860?
 
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Ya you can get a 7790 or 7850 as recent games like skyrim crysis3 requires lot of CPU power along with GPU so the dual core might hold you back. But most 90% games will be very happy with the 3GHz @ 1080p requires some GPU power.

http://ark.intel.com/products/53492/Intel-Pentium-Proce...

Edit: The CPU cant be overclocked only K series processors can. slight overclock aint gonna give you much but lotsa hasstle.

I think you will be fine with that as long you dont play very cpu intensive games like crysis3.

So yes go for the card of your choice.

Thanks



 
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For Skyrim it is great , Crysis 3 it is pretty good, you should be able to do medium-high mixed settings decently at around 50FPS on C3, it will benefit from extra RAM (cheeaap).
Just remember to upgrade the CPU eventually....
 
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