i have a bad cpu yet a great graphics card, does it effect my gaming alot?

fear112

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cpu: intel core duo 2 E6400 2.13GHz
so today i bought a kingston
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ram and a graphics card which is a gtx 750 ti superclocked 2gb, i watched videos online of people maxing out games like skyrim with realvision enb and battlefield 4, etc
i was wondering before setting it up, would my cpu effect my gaming and not allow me to max out games like the upcoming GTA V on the pc which is coming this fall or battlefield 4,crysis3,cod black ops2 and skyrim realvision enb?
sorry i am really bad with this pc setup stuff..
 

zaysk

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Maxing out Skyrim with an ENB on a 750ti? Where did you see that? My 770 and core i5-4670k struggles to maintain 60 FPS in maxed out/ENB Skyrim. I'm not exactly sure if you'll be bottlenecked by that CPU, but it's a dual core and most games today use at least 4 cores, so you're going to feel the effects of having only a dual core CPU.
 

Reyjkl

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If your motherboard supports overclocking an i5, go with an i5 3/400k series. It is pretty expensive but it will last through 2 graphics card upgrades at the very least.

However, if your motherboard doesn't support it and or you don't want to blow over 200$ on a CPU/mobo then you can pick up this combo for less than 130$. It's not intel but it gets the job done
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/qGDNsY
Ps you don't necessarily need to overclock but it definitely will help in future proofing your CPU. Not to mention if you want to do any livestreaming or video editing in the future. If you are planning to overclock make sure you get a good CPU cooler. The cooler master hyper evo212 is a good one.