Will a Pentium Dual Core E5800 bottleneck a AMD Radeon r7 250x / HD7770
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cdrkf
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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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Yah im not even sure if that processor would meet the minimum requirements so bf4 might not even run.
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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).
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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There is a slight bottleneck with the r7 250 and the core 2 duo e5800. But for playing games such as battlefield 4 at low-mid settings, it should be fine, since multiplayer games with 12+ people are only going to be intensive.
If you plan on upgrading later in the future, get a core 2 quad. Motherboards that support the core 2 duo tend to support core 2 quad.
If you plan on upgrading later in the future, get a core 2 quad. Motherboards that support the core 2 duo tend to support core 2 quad.
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