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Pentium G3220 Bottleneck??

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June 11, 2014 2:02:03 PM

hi i am building a new gaming pc. my cpu is the intel pentium G3220 and my GPU is the Nvidia GTX 750ti. Will my G3220 bottleneck the 750ti? And what kind of fps should i expect in something like battlefield 4? thanks

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June 11, 2014 2:11:51 PM

It will absolutely not bottleneck it at all. You will see some frame drops in CPU heavy situations in games like BF4 that use more than 2 cores. I would stick to medium/high in BF4, and reduce the draw distance if possible (not sure if you can do that in BF4 lol)

Do you already have the 750 Ti? You could get the AMD R7 265 for slightly better performance overall, but much better experience in BF4 with Mantle.
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June 11, 2014 2:20:05 PM

im not using rebates, and the 265 would have put me out of my budget. but here is my build if you want to look at it, its being shipped currently.
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/xKHzFT
(click on the 229.99 for the link to the newegg bundle).
Its really a good system for $360, cause newegg didnt charge me tax or shipping. I looked on youtube for a video of a syystem with similar specs, and it ran crysis 3 surprisingly well at pretty good settings. Its probably one of the best sub $400 dollar systems ive seen
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June 11, 2014 2:26:19 PM

It depends on the games. BF4 is one of very few games that show decent scaling all the way up to i7-4960X as long as the GPU can keep up.

There ALWAYS is a bottleneck. What changes is which component causes the worst drop-outs and this changes on a game-by-game, scene-by-scene, frame-by-frame basis. If neither the CPU or GPU bottlenecks, then you either have vsync on and the CPU/GPU are waiting for that which makes your display the bottleneck or the game itself does frame pacing.
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June 11, 2014 2:30:43 PM

Gotcha. Yeah that's not bad at all for that price. The only thing I have a concern on is the power supply, but the locked i3 and 750 Ti draw minimal power, so it shouldn't be a problem.
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June 11, 2014 4:32:01 PM

BleedingEdgeTek said:
The only thing I have a concern on is the power supply

LOGISYS case so most likely a LOGISYS-branded PSU, meaning one of those "lovely" tier-5 affairs that should be banned from sale for the consumers' and their equipment's safety.
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June 11, 2014 4:51:06 PM

It should be fine for most single player games, but the G3220 will struggle a bit with BF4 multiplayer..
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June 11, 2014 7:38:05 PM

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BleedingEdgeTek said:
The only thing I have a concern on is the power supply

LOGISYS case so most likely a LOGISYS-branded PSU, meaning one of those "lovely" tier-5 affairs that should be banned from sale for the consumers' and their equipment's safety.


Yeah lol that's why I mentioned my concern about it. The good thing about the locked i3 and 750 Ti though, he's only looking at about 160-175w at full load, so it shouldn't be too bad on that power supply (hopefully!)
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June 11, 2014 9:23:17 PM

BleedingEdgeTek said:
Yeah lol that's why I mentioned my concern about it. The good thing about the locked i3 and 750 Ti though, he's only looking at about 160-175w at full load, so it shouldn't be too bad on that power supply (hopefully!)

I have seen generic-brand PSUs fail due to grossly under-rated output caps after about a year of powering a mostly idle PCs 24/7 so I would not under-estimate their ability to fail. Thankfully, none of the generics I have owned managed to kill any of my components as far as I know. (And most of them served me for an extra 6-10 years after their initial failure with a quick output filter capacitor upgrade.)
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