How bad will my bottleneck be?

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ProtonCow27

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I have an Intel Pentium CPU, and am going to use some Christmas money to buy an awesome GPU. Do you think an Intel Pentium would cause a severe bottleneck to the performance of a Radeon R9 280X GPU?
 
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andy_Man

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I disagree completely with the Ram statement. Ram matters very little when it comes to gaming. (As long as you have 8gigs)
Overclocking a cpu will help, but considering I don't know of a quad core pentium chip it won't help play games that want 4 cores. Lots of new games don't play well on dual cores.

So basically, yes a graphics card will help a lot in games that are ok running on dual cores. No, it won't help you run games that want quad cores. Either way I would upgrade the graphics card before the cpu.

 
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xBlaz3kx

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How exactly do you think RAM isn't important when gaming? RAM includes all the program,info, constants, etc files/data which are in use by the CPU and the CPU is calculating physics while the GPU is calculating graphic movements, positioning etc and they have to share files/info and the frequency matters for gaming, because of the refreshing and info exchange with the CPU, not capacity of the RAM.
 
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Benab3

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Sorry, have to disagree there. Especially if a Dedicated GPU is being used, the Frequency and Cas Latency of the RAM matters very little. It does still have an effect, but it is the margin of a few FPS as best.

The capacity certainly does matter, for new games at decent settings, 8GB of RAM is preferable.
 
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