Does a Radeon R9 280x work with an Intel Core 2 Duo with an Intel G41 express chipset?
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Supernova1138
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Depends on the clock speed of your CPU and which game you are playing. For very CPU heavy titles like Crysis 3 or the Battlefield games, you could lose up to 50% of the 280x's performance. In less CPU heavy titles the bottleneck won't be quite as severe, but you still would lose a fair bit of performance. If you want to get the most out of that card, you're going to have to look at a new build, even if you get the fastest Core 2 Quad you can get, you would still hit a CPU bottleneck with a 280x.
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You would still hit a bit of a bottleneck, though not nearly as bad as with your old Core 2 Duo. The FM2 Athlon II CPUs aren't particularly fast, and they lack L3 cache which will hurt their game performance somewhat, they are budget chips meant to be run with their integrated graphics and/or an entry level graphics card. If you want an AMD chip, I would recommend an FX 6300 at minimum or an FX 8350 if you can afford it. With Intel, don't get anything less than an i5, as newer games are starting to have trouble with running at full settings with a dual core CPU.
If you lack the funds for a full rebuild right now, you can just grab the new graphics card now, and stick it in the new build later when funds become available, just don't expect to get the full performance out of your new card with your current system.
If you lack the funds for a full rebuild right now, you can just grab the new graphics card now, and stick it in the new build later when funds become available, just don't expect to get the full performance out of your new card with your current system.
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