Will my CPU bottleneck my new GPU?

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Hey everyone!

I was looking to upgrade my GPU and today I found a great deal for Radeon R9 380 2Gb, which I had to take. However, I suspect that my lntel i3-2105 @ 3.10GHz will bottleneck my new GPU. Am I right? And if so, to what extent will it approximately bottleneck? My PC has 8 Mb RAM, if that makes any difference.

I would also appreciate suggestions for my new CPU in a price range of 100-150e.

Thanks in advance!
 
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Some games will show advantage from upgrading your i3 to an i5, but in most cases you'll still have a good experience.

Some CPUs to look for:

i5 2500
i5 2500K
i5 3470
i5 3570
i5 3570k

I'd pass on an i5 2400 or 2300, due to low clockspeeds.
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Some games will show advantage from upgrading your i3 to an i5, but in most cases you'll still have a good experience.

Some CPUs to look for:

i5 2500
i5 2500K
i5 3470
i5 3570
i5 3570k

I'd pass on an i5 2400 or 2300, due to low clockspeeds.
 
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Yeah, my bad. Thanks for the answer.



Thanks for the suggestions! They are currently a bit out of my price range but I will keep them in mind.

 
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And if you're really tight with your budget and have decent temps, you can always give overclocking a go, there's no reason you shouldn't be able to push this processor to 3.5Ghz and for gaming, that's what you need is high single core performance.
 
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i3 2xxx are locked CPUs. i5 2xxx and 3xxx can be overclocked 4 bins, because they have turbo, but the only way to overclock an i3 is with baseclock.

Baseclock generally can't be increased more than 4-5mhz before instability occurs, due to absolutely everything else in the system (including things like SATA / USB) being overclocked too, so OP would be lucky to get more than 100mhz.
 
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Correct you are, I'm too used to having a 4690K.

I know some motherboards allow you to unlink the BCLK from the memory, but wasn't sure if that was option in this case.

 
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