Dual core with r9 270x?

sagars24 · Jun 10, 2014

I am planning to buy r9 270x for high level gaming but for now i dont want to rebuild the whole rig . I have a dual core processor and gigabyte mobo(g31m-es2l ) which has a pci.e express slot and will be buying an 600w psu.Will this rig work? And in future i will be upgrading my processor and mobo.
Thanks in Advance.

LucoTF · Jun 10, 2014

sagars24 :

Yes it will work. You won't see the true potential of the 270x until you upgrade the CPU though

NBSN · Jun 10, 2014

According to this link http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3485#sp
your motherboard only has one PCIE x16 so it could only support one of those graphics cards.
Depending on your monitor and other system specs I would worry that even if your motherboard supported dual r9 270x cards that it might bottleneck. If you wanted to use two of them together though you would have to at least upgrade your motherboard and maybe some other components.

sagars24 · Jun 10, 2014

I will be upgrading soon after buying the gpu .Till then i will have to use this rig. And by how much it will get bottlenecked any idea ?

LucoTF · Jun 10, 2014

sagars24 :

It will be pretty bad in CPU intensive games. You can compensate some of this by turning up the effects and details, but it will still be a pretty big bottleneck even with an overclocked E8xxx (you haven't actually told us what CPU you have)

sagars24 · Jun 10, 2014

Intel pentium dual core processor 2.7 ghz 775 socket!
What should i do wait till i get a new cpu and buy the gpu or buy the gpu and use it with my dual core for the timebeing?

LucoTF · Jun 10, 2014

sagars24 :

You don't have to wait. You can try and reduce the bottleneck by overclocking (if you can), or just turn up the detail in game to push more load onto the GPU

xweetok59 · Jun 10, 2014

good luck doing any gaming with a processor as old as the pentium.

sagars24 · Jun 10, 2014

Thanks and if you find any threads on how to overclock r9 please post the link.

logainofhades · Jun 10, 2014

xweetok59 :

It would do fine in LoL at the very least. So so in WoW. More modern games, not so much.

LucoTF · Jun 10, 2014

sagars24 :

I meant overclock the pentium cpu, not the r9

sagars24 · Jun 13, 2014

Any other gpu cheaper than r9 ? So that i can.buy a cpu now it self.I searched for some gpu's but i am now confused my gpu budget is around rs10000($168). Which could at least play mordern games in high settings.
Thanks

LucoTF · Jun 13, 2014

sagars24 :

What's your budget for a CPU and motherboard? is $168 your total budget?

Your gigabyte motherboard, do you know what revision it is?

sagars24 · Jun 13, 2014

$168 only for the gpu and i am going for a new rig now total budget $480(includes cpu,gpu,mobo,psu,hdd). And i will prefer fx6300 for the cpu

logainofhades · Jun 13, 2014

I cannot recommend FX anymore. AM3+ is a dead socket with no upgrade path. I would go with this.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i3-4150 3.5GHz Dual-Core Processor ($118.48 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: ASRock H97 PRO4 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($86.66 @ Newegg)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($52.92 @ Amazon)
Video Card: XFX Radeon R9 270 2GB Double Dissipation Video Card ($159.99 @ Amazon)
Power Supply: EVGA 600B 600W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply ($59.99 @ NCIX US)
Total: $478.04
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-06-13 12:06 EDT-0400

sagars24 · Jun 13, 2014

Gpu is not available here

can you check them from here -www.flipkart.com and tell me which one is best.
And why is that ? you cannot recommend fx series? dual core over hexa core?
Thanks

sagars24 · Jun 13, 2014

even the cpu is not available ..4130 is there.

logainofhades · Jun 13, 2014

FX 6300 has to be overclocked to beat an i3. The 4130 is fine. The 4150 is a new Haswell refresh. FX uses more power, is slower, and has no upgrade path as no new CPU's are coming out.

sagars24 · Jun 13, 2014

thanks for your advice!

jaguarskx · Jun 13, 2014

LucoTF :

Only if the specific games can make use of more than 2 CPU cores.

For example, Skyrim does not take advantage of more than 2 cores. It will perform the same on a dual core i3 and quad core i5 with CPU cores clocked at the same speed.

logainofhades · Jun 13, 2014

jaguarskx :

The i5 would probably still be a bit faster due to the amount of cache it has vs the i3.

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