E5300 Bottleneck? GTX750 Ti

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Roach715

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Hello! I'm thinking of getting my hands on a GTX 750Ti for my oldest and only desktop computer I own. I have never purchased a graphics card before for this computer. My specs are..
Intel Pentium E5300 2.60GHz Dual core 4 GB Ram DDR3
PSU 350 Watt supply
So my question is.. If purchase this graphics card for this computer will the bottleneck on the card be way too noticeable for it to make games unplayable on high settings 1080p?
Should I even consider buying a Gtx 750ti for my old PC?
Note I know I have to replace my CPU and get some better RAM in my system but I don't have the money for that.

Thanks for your time.
 
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What video card are you using now? The 750 is a good upgrade to many older cards, the 2.6 gig core 2 CPU should run pretty well, although you will need to lower settings in some newer games that rely on the CPU more. A game like Skyrim may not play well at 1080 on High in your system without a CPU upgrade.
 
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has everything to do with his gpu. If his cpu is not capable then it is pointless upgrading the gpu. may as well just find a cheap 6670 and just play older games, that is all that cpu is good for.
 
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The one bonus with the 750 is that if he ever upgrades the system, the 750 is still usable for decent quality for higher end games. It just ends up being a choice between cheaper video card now, then get one in the future for what a 750 costs now but is faster, or spend more on a 750 now and use it, but then a year or two from now you have that older card you spent more money on where newer cards are faster for the same price.

If you can get a CPU upgrade within a year, I'd get the 750. If not, a slower, cheaper card will work just as well and get a better card when you can upgrade. A straight upgrade to a fast Q series quad core ( say a Q9650 ) will give a big boost to newer games that can use more than 2 cores and a bit of a boost in other games. If the motherboard can take that CPU, and you can get it fairly soon, 750 now, CPU upgrade soon, and you're good.
 
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Ok stop with this crap. Some people.....

His CPU is FINE, it's FINE. He's not looking to run games at MAX at 1080p. Will it bottleneck him a LITTLE? Sure it will. But in MOST games at 1080p and mediumish setting, the CPU isn't the bottleneck, it's the graphics card.

Will a GTX750Ti be a LOT faster than a 6670 using his old CPU? Hell YES. Will a new GTX750Ti in his PC make playing new games at 1080p at medium setting possible? Yes, yes it surely will. For the guy who said a 6670 and 750Ti will be the same in his PC, that's just CRAZY, CPU's don't bottleneck graphics to a point where you can't tell one graphics card from the other. What are you smoking?

The only time a CPU starts to bottleneck is at lower resolutions like 1280x720 and at low settings. Once you get up to 1080p or even 900p, the CPU doesn't bottleneck nearly as much.

However he's going to be playing a LOT of games on MAX settings at 1080p with this card. Games like COD Black Ops 2 from 2013 will run MAX at 1080p on this card with his CPU. Borderlands 2 will run at MAX settings at 1080p on this card with his CPU. Only games like Crysis 3, BF4, Metro LL, and AC4 will be have a problem with MAX settings. And he'll still be able to run those games at 1080p on mediumish settings no problem.

IDK why some people feel like they have to tell someone that they're rig sucks so bad they shouldn't upgrade it when it's not true at all. Do you really want that person to listen to you and not buy a graphics card because of your statement? Do you really want them to miss out on a good looking games because they don't have a CPU from 2014?
 
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You mad bro? A $50 haswell celeron is faster than an E5300. If I were stuck with a Core 2 Duo, I wouldn't want anything less than a E8xx, period. I still have fond memories of my old E8190. It was an awesome little chip. Depending on OP's budget, and current hardware, a cpu upgrade might actually be possible. Maybe just an E8500 on ebay for $27 or maybe a a Pentium G and B85 pro4 for like $125.
 
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clearly im smoking something without hallucinogens. games like crysis 3 and bf4 will not run on the lowest settings regardless of the graphics card he is using because the cpu is too slow, it will run at like 10 fps. Im not telling anyone to miss out on games, im saying getting a card that can play games at 1080p medium settings, is pointless if the cpu is not meeting the minimum requirements of many new games. I have played skyrim on a 3ghz core 2 duo with an amd 6850 (probably equivelant to a 750ti), and it ran like crap dipping below 20fps in places, and that is not even close to the most cpu demanding game around. after getting my i5 it was smooth as butter with the exact same gpu. upgrading to a 7970 just allowed me to increase detail settings more. please go rant somewhere else about things you know nothing about.
 
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Either you were doing something wrong, or running a lot of mods, just saying. As you can see an E8400, which runs at 3.0ghz, does just fine in Skyrim.

Skyrim-High-FPS.png
 
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perhaps they didnt mention the minimum fps dips you get in towns, and i my cpu was older gen, and the e5300 is even slower again. I remember when i got the game, the opening scene struggled to stay above 25fps. when i upgraded to an i5 there was significant improvement.
 
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Regardless, a 750ti and an E8400/E8500 would make many games still playable. The E5300 will not keep up, that I agree with. You can find E8400/E8500's in the $25-$30 range on Ebay quite often. If the OP's motherboard supports it, it is a decent holdover until they can rebuild the system.
 
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