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i3 3220 bottleneck 7970 gpu?

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July 8, 2014 5:11:48 AM

I would like to know what is the highest gpu i can use with a i3 3220 cpu
I currently have 7790 oc msi 1gb, 16gb corsair ram 1666mhz

Thankz

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July 8, 2014 5:14:59 AM

You can use any GPU with it, technically.

What's your budget? Bottlenecks are always going to happen, I'd just get the best you can if I were you.
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July 8, 2014 5:22:17 AM

JOOK-D said:
You can use any GPU with it, technically.

What's your budget? Bottlenecks are always going to happen, I'd just get the best you can if I were you.


i guess $300 just for the gpu. i intend on upgrading the cpu later this year
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July 8, 2014 6:05:24 AM

You will only bottleneck in CPU intensive games that use more than 2 cores. Even then it shouldn't be that bad at all. It would be a good idea to grab an i5/i7 though down the road to eliminate this bottleneck.
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July 8, 2014 6:07:13 AM

DAZ187 said:
JOOK-D said:
You can use any GPU with it, technically.

What's your budget? Bottlenecks are always going to happen, I'd just get the best you can if I were you.


i guess $300 just for the gpu. i intend on upgrading the cpu later this year


You certainly don't want to be stuck with a shitty GPU after you upgrade. Don't worry about bottlenecks. Most games won't even be that CPU-intensive for a new-ish Core i3 to be a problem anyway.
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July 8, 2014 6:33:19 AM

DAZ187 said:
JOOK-D said:
You can use any GPU with it, technically.

What's your budget? Bottlenecks are always going to happen, I'd just get the best you can if I were you.


i guess $300 just for the gpu. i intend on upgrading the cpu later this year


Best you can get is the GTX 770. Are you playing at 1080p? If you are playing at a higher resolution than 1080p the R9 280x with 3GB of VRAM may be a better choice.

https://pcpartpicker.com/part/gigabyte-video-card-gvn77...
https://pcpartpicker.com/part/msi-video-card-n770tf2gd5...

Generally speaking though, games don't tend to saturate even the 2GB of VRAM on the 770 let alone the 3GB on the 280x. Only a few titles use more than 2GB. The 770 is faster in most benchmarks.

It should max/ultra most everything at 1080p.
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August 26, 2014 1:13:24 PM

DAZ187 said:
I would like to know what is the highest gpu i can use with a i3 3220 cpu
I currently have 7790 oc msi 1gb, 16gb corsair ram 1666mhz

Thankz


I currently have a i3 3220 and GTX 660 sc, on batlefield i have it on ultra and get about 80% gpu usage yet my frames drop to a minimum of around 45 fps, bearing in mind i was playing 64 player tdm on Noshar Canals. This is because of the CPU all cores were at 90 - 100%
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August 26, 2014 1:52:40 PM

ANY CPU and GPU can be paired and achieve excellent outcome but not everyone has the same idea of what an ideal outcome is. An i3 is gonig to dip into the 30-40FPS range in compute intensive games NO MATTER WHAT GPU you pair it with. Think about that for a minute. It doesn't matter what GPU you select, the CPU will set the same hard boundaries on FPS limits. In other-words, shrinking the GPU to "fit" the CPU better, won't actually solve any problems if the goal is to have more FPS than that.

With that in mind, it obviously doesn't make any sense to select a GPU that can do 90FPS at your resolution and desired detail settings for the compute intensive games you want to play if the CPU is going to set the pace at 30FPS, as that would be a lot of wasted GPU. However, if you don't mind 30-40FPS minimums, the same GPU that can do 90FPS could also be given a more significant render workload by increasing visual quality settings and or resolution in order to better "match" the available GPU render performance to the pace that the CPU is settings.

An i3 combined with an HD7970 is IMO better suited to pairing with a 1440P monitor, as this will help ensure that the GPU has plenty to do (rendering higher visual quality) since the CPU is going to set a slower pace. On the other hand, an overclocked i5 with the same GPU is better suited to a 1080P monitor with a higher FPS goal.
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August 26, 2014 2:28:22 PM

Download MSI afterburner

Run a demanding game and PLAY it

Check the GPU usage form when you played

If the GPU never reached 100%, then the CPU is bottle-necking it. Sometimes, games will be CPU heavy, in which you would get 30fps instead of 40 FPS not necessarily because of a bottleneck, but rather a CPU that has trouble running the game well.

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