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Will a Pentium Dual Core E5800 bottleneck a AMD Radeon r7 250x / HD7770

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May 21, 2014 8:33:34 AM

Hi, so I'm getting a r7 250x/ HD7770, and I'm wondering if my cpu is going to bottleneck the card. I want to play games like battlefield and outlast or something similiar on med - high quality settings on 1920x1080 resolution. Thanks for the help ^^

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May 21, 2014 8:41:09 AM

Yes it will defiantly bottleneck that card quite a lot.
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May 21, 2014 8:42:31 AM

Jared0107 said:
Hi, so I'm getting a r7 250x/ HD7770, and I'm wondering if my cpu is going to bottleneck the card. I want to play games like battlefield and outlast or something similiar on med - high quality settings on 1920x1080 resolution. Thanks for the help ^^


That CPU is a bit weak to be honest, especially for Battlefield (which really needs 4 cores)...

If you're trying to save money you could look at getting a Core 2 Quad to go into your motherboard (you'd probably be able to find one on ebay for not to much). If you can let me know the specs of you're motherboard I might be able to suggest something.

Another thing to remember- for modern games you need plenty of ram, 4gb as a minimum- and to use 4gb ram you need 64bit windows 7 ideally.
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May 21, 2014 8:46:13 AM

My motherboard is a emachines et1850 which clearly sucks lol, I don't even think that a core 2 quad will be able to fit in it. And yes I have 4gb ram and a win 7 64 bit OS
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May 21, 2014 8:46:35 AM

Yah im not even sure if that processor would meet the minimum requirements so bf4 might not even run.
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May 21, 2014 8:49:02 AM

The game can run I looked for some videos on youtube, but they play it at a lower resolution which I really hate, I rather lower the graphics thou
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May 21, 2014 9:04:02 AM

Hmm I've had a look and it's obviously a custom motherboard so it probably won't be able to run a quad (even though technically the Intel chipset they used will support it).

My recommendation would be put together a newer machine if you can afford it- you can re-use your hard drive and optical drive, and you can probably get away with transferring the windows licence if you have the disk for it (you'll need to call microsoft and tell them the motherboard died and they'll activate it again).

You'd need a new motherboard, cpu, memory + the graphcs card. You'll probably also want to pick up a new case + PSU.

If that is too much money- you can still pick up the graphics card and it will probably run ok (ish), and transfer it to the newer machine when you have more cash. The other thing to considder- the power supply in that machine will be pretty weak. The 250X might be pushing it a bit (as it requires an external PCIe connector). An HD7750 or a Geforce GTX 750ti might be better options as those are each companies respective fastest cards without the need for additional power (the GTX is the faster of the 2 btw).
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