Potential r9 270 Bottleneck CPU?

Kevin L

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I have been in this pc thing a long time, so I know this will likely be some sort of bottleneck, but what do you guys think about a pentium g630, with an r9 270? My mission was to create a $300 pc for a friend that could run mainly GTA V at medium to high settings, 60fps at 1080p. I was looking at a better cpu, like the i5-2400 for $80 to better the performance, but is it really worth it? Should I just stick with the pentium and save?

PC will have:
250gb ssd, and 8gb of ram if that helps at all.
 
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That i5 will be much better pick.GTA V is really CPU intensive game and you will want a good CPU for it.He will easy hit 60 fps most of time on High settings with that i5 and r9 270.

Kevin L

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Guess I will pick it up, it doubles the performance of the pentium. The stock heatsink plus new thermal paste seems good. I also might overclock the r9 270 to around 1125mhz