How much of a bottleneck will i get using AMD Atlhon II X2 250 3.00 ghz, with a gtx 550 ti?
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https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=AMD+Athlon+II+X2+250
Single thread: 1014
FX-4300 is about 1411 for comparison...
i5-4690K is 2238.
Now I know an i5-4690K or similar can be much faster (over 40% in some games) compared to FX-4300 with a GTX960 or slightly lower but it's proportional the GPU (better the GPU compared to CPU the more likely the bottleneck).
(Harder to compare 4-core to 2-core CPU's due to game thread usage, OS overhead etc)
GTX550Ti is pretty LOW performance compared to newer cards:
https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/ASUS/GeForce_GTX_550_Ti_Direct_Cu/23.html
So...
Honestly not sure though my gut is somewhere between MINIMAL bottlenecking to perhaps 25% worst case scenario (compared to better CPU) on average though there are some really demanding CPU scenarios like some MMO's in multiplayer with large maps for which your CPU might completely choke everything compared to an i5-4690K for example even perhaps less than HALF the frame rate.
It's really hard to give hard numbers since benchmarks don't likely exist that give a simple comparison so I have to sort of spitball the numbers based on experience.
Again, it varies significantly by the game. The ONLY way to give proper numbers is to compare two systems with the same GTX550Ti but different CPU's then compare in REPEATABLE scenarios like benchmarks, online MMO maps etc and compare results.
(emulating by enabling only two cores on four-core, and dropping frequency to match processing power as well as using a SIMILARLY performing GPU all on same system can also produce usable results... so run with CPU at normal then emulate older CPU to compare)
Tomb Raider for example is much less CPU bound than most games though no idea if you'd get the minimum specs.
TORCHLIGHT might be a playable experience... really not sure. You're going to have to choose carefully, and also tweak settings carefully.
Other:
Definitely don't run any web browsers while gaming. That's a dual-core CPU and fairly low performance. Windows could eat up say 25% at times in idle then add a browser and you could easily be jumping over 50% usage of your CPU leaving only the remainder for gaming.
Single thread: 1014
FX-4300 is about 1411 for comparison...
i5-4690K is 2238.
Now I know an i5-4690K or similar can be much faster (over 40% in some games) compared to FX-4300 with a GTX960 or slightly lower but it's proportional the GPU (better the GPU compared to CPU the more likely the bottleneck).
(Harder to compare 4-core to 2-core CPU's due to game thread usage, OS overhead etc)
GTX550Ti is pretty LOW performance compared to newer cards:
https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/ASUS/GeForce_GTX_550_Ti_Direct_Cu/23.html
So...
Honestly not sure though my gut is somewhere between MINIMAL bottlenecking to perhaps 25% worst case scenario (compared to better CPU) on average though there are some really demanding CPU scenarios like some MMO's in multiplayer with large maps for which your CPU might completely choke everything compared to an i5-4690K for example even perhaps less than HALF the frame rate.
It's really hard to give hard numbers since benchmarks don't likely exist that give a simple comparison so I have to sort of spitball the numbers based on experience.
Again, it varies significantly by the game. The ONLY way to give proper numbers is to compare two systems with the same GTX550Ti but different CPU's then compare in REPEATABLE scenarios like benchmarks, online MMO maps etc and compare results.
(emulating by enabling only two cores on four-core, and dropping frequency to match processing power as well as using a SIMILARLY performing GPU all on same system can also produce usable results... so run with CPU at normal then emulate older CPU to compare)
Tomb Raider for example is much less CPU bound than most games though no idea if you'd get the minimum specs.
TORCHLIGHT might be a playable experience... really not sure. You're going to have to choose carefully, and also tweak settings carefully.
Other:
Definitely don't run any web browsers while gaming. That's a dual-core CPU and fairly low performance. Windows could eat up say 25% at times in idle then add a browser and you could easily be jumping over 50% usage of your CPU leaving only the remainder for gaming.
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