I've been working on the specs for my new PC for a month now (slowly, over time; I'm in no hurry). Originally my plan was to get a i3-3220 and GTX 660, because the GTX 660 is the most expensive GPU I can afford, while the i3-3220 is among the cheapest CPUs that still should not bottleneck this GPU.
However since then, the GTX 760 has come out. Since it's about $60 more expensive but has very impressive specs, I've been thinking of getting that instead. But, I feel that the i3-3220 might bottleneck it. Is that the case? If so, then what CPU should I get instead that's still cheap? Any of the higher-level i3's, or low-end i5's?
This is for a purely gaming PC; it's not used for anything else. Which is why I plan on putting most of the money in the GPU rather than the CPU. Also, out of the benchmarks that I've browsed over the past weeks, I noticed that the Intel CPUs actually performed admirably better than the AMD CPUs of similar prices, especially since a lot of games are still not able to take advantage of the quad cores that AMD often offers at low pricepoints.
However since then, the GTX 760 has come out. Since it's about $60 more expensive but has very impressive specs, I've been thinking of getting that instead. But, I feel that the i3-3220 might bottleneck it. Is that the case? If so, then what CPU should I get instead that's still cheap? Any of the higher-level i3's, or low-end i5's?
This is for a purely gaming PC; it's not used for anything else. Which is why I plan on putting most of the money in the GPU rather than the CPU. Also, out of the benchmarks that I've browsed over the past weeks, I noticed that the Intel CPUs actually performed admirably better than the AMD CPUs of similar prices, especially since a lot of games are still not able to take advantage of the quad cores that AMD often offers at low pricepoints.
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