After an unreasonable amount of research and confusion, I figured I'd come back to the TH community for an answer.
My computer isn't exactly the best rig for gaming (far from it) and with the low budget I have I want to make the right choice on my first try. The AMD Athlon II X2 220 is, to my knowledge, at the low end of low end CPUs. I've been told an AMD Radeon HD 7850 or GTX 750 ti will run perfectly well on a Corsair 430W with this CPU, so that's good.
However, recently I found out about bottle-necking, and since I'm progressively becoming a more hardcore gamer, having to re-upgrade because my CPU's not good enough (especially right after getting a new GPU) is really annoying. So my question is with the Athlon II X2 220, is it going to bottleneck either the HD 7850 or GTX 750 ti?
I play a wide range of games, and people say some are more CPU/GPU heavy, which puts me on both extreme ends of the spectrum.
Thanks in advance and if I'm overthinking it just tell me that too
My computer isn't exactly the best rig for gaming (far from it) and with the low budget I have I want to make the right choice on my first try. The AMD Athlon II X2 220 is, to my knowledge, at the low end of low end CPUs. I've been told an AMD Radeon HD 7850 or GTX 750 ti will run perfectly well on a Corsair 430W with this CPU, so that's good.
However, recently I found out about bottle-necking, and since I'm progressively becoming a more hardcore gamer, having to re-upgrade because my CPU's not good enough (especially right after getting a new GPU) is really annoying. So my question is with the Athlon II X2 220, is it going to bottleneck either the HD 7850 or GTX 750 ti?
I play a wide range of games, and people say some are more CPU/GPU heavy, which puts me on both extreme ends of the spectrum.
Thanks in advance and if I'm overthinking it just tell me that too
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