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what is the cheapest cpu that won't bottleneck 760 sli

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August 15, 2013 12:14:18 PM

i'm curious as i'm planning for a build

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August 15, 2013 12:20:41 PM

I wouldn't look for the "cheapest" CPU you can find. I would look more towards just getting the best value, as cheapest usually just breeds disappointment. If you are on a tight budget, look at a last generation Ivy Bridge i5 processor, something like the i5-3570K.
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August 15, 2013 12:35:10 PM

jimmyree said:
i'm curious as i'm planning for a build


I wouldn't build with SLi in mind, go with the best single card you can get. SLi has more issues then you will want to deal with. Furthermore, the 760 is just fast enough that if you make use of all the power it will bring you'll probably be vram performance capped by the 2gb of ram on the cards. In order to take full advantage of all the of the power you'll have on your SLi 760 you probably will need cards with 3 or more gb of vram... which nvidia doesn't make. If you don't plan to use all that gpu power with a bunch of monitors and high resolutions you should be fine with a single 770 or 780.

That said, to answer your question, ALL cpus provide some level of bottlenecking to some respect. So demanding no bottleneck is silly. Everything is bottlenecked at some point, it depends on the game, resolutions and the like. the cheapest "enthusiast" level gaming cpu is probably a FX6300 or FX8320, but both of those will bottleneck an SLi build to an extent. That leads us to an i5-3350p as the next cheapest enthusiast build cpu, it will still bottleneck you but it won't hurt you too much, and its doubtful you'll notice the difference between that and a i5-2500k or i7-4770k
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August 15, 2013 12:45:02 PM

The 2 gigs will not limit you not sure why people get stuck on this. There is a review I think on this site or maybe hardocp that comapirs SLI 760 to a titan and the 760 wins in every case even at 5760x1200... FX 6350 will not bottleneck this as the new FX proccessors are on par with i5 in most cases. IMHO the 6350 is you best bet for cheap. I myself am an Intel guy but for cheap the AMD setups are close enough that it doesnt matter.
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August 15, 2013 12:47:25 PM

jimmyree said:
i'm curious as i'm planning for a build


If you overclock the FX 6300...you should have no issues. If you're not going to overclock, I would look at the FX 6350. It shouldn't bottleneck either.
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