Cheapest Intel CPU that can handle gtx 760

BDBooty19 · Oct 14, 2014

Whats a good and cheap intel i5 lga 1155 that can handle a gtx 760? (upgrading from a i3) thx in advance!

nekulturny · Oct 14, 2014

You already have an i5 LGA 1155? which one? Unless you have one of the crappier ones like the i5-2300 I don't think you need an upgrade at all, and even if you did, I wouldn't waste the money.

BDBooty19 · Oct 15, 2014

nekulturny :

sorry i replied late was getting 404 error but i meant core i3

tiny voices · Oct 15, 2014

The cheapest i5 you can get. You can usually get used Sandy Bridge i5s for like $120 on Amazon.

BDBooty19 · Oct 15, 2014

tiny voices :

not to sound needy or anything but what exact one and would it bottleneck a gtx 760? or sli down the road?

BDBooty19 · Oct 15, 2014

so far the cheapest good one i can find is a i5 3470

tiny voices · Oct 15, 2014

That is perfectly fine. ANY i5 will work. ANY of them.

nekulturny · Oct 15, 2014

BDBooty19 :

I wouldn't worry about SLi down the road, honestly. As far as the whole planning your system for "future" upgrades, I'd watch this video, you'll learn a lot. But yea, systems typically are going to be more cost effective for performance just to rebuild every 3-4 years vs upgrading them. And yea, a SB or Ivy i5 will be fine to pair with a GTX 760. I really would stay away from the lower tier Sandy's though (i5-23xx), those are bastard children of the Sandy Bridge line, my OC'd Phenom II 975 beats them on Cinebench, they're just clocked too low and you cant overclock them. Go with i5-2400 or higher if going with Sandy Bridges.

Video-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FK4ip08auGg

BDBooty19 · Oct 16, 2014

nekulturny :

BDBooty19 :

tiny voices :

I wouldn't worry about SLi down the road, honestly. As far as the whole planning your system for "future" upgrades, I'd watch this video, you'll learn a lot. But yea, systems typically are going to be more cost effective for performance just to rebuild every 3-4 years vs upgrading them. And yea, a SB or Ivy i5 will be fine to pair with a GTX 760. I really would stay away from the lower tier Sandy's though (i5-23xx), those are bastard children of the Sandy Bridge line, my OC'd Phenom II 975 beats them on Cinebench, they're just clocked too low and you cant overclock them. Go with i5-2400 or higher if going with Sandy Bridges.
thx a bunch exact answer I wanted I would give you best answer but error 404 keeps coming up but ill still try to give that to you
Video-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FK4ip08auGg

tiny voices · Oct 16, 2014

The 23xx sandy bridge chips have decent turbo clocks that CAN be manipulated on a decent board. My Girlfriend has an i5 2310 (2.9ghz) and on a simple MSI board we were able to set to boost (turbo) to 3.5ghz. That is by no means slow, even by modern standards. Hers is paired up with an hd7950 (about as powerful as a 760) and has no issues at all in ANY game. Not even CLOSE to a bottleneck.

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