Small Bottleneck or BIG Bottleneck? Gtx 960 and a poor g3258 at stock.

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Tallon Serkanic

Tallon Serkanic

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The g3258 is at a small 3.2Ghz. I wanna know how much of a bottlencek that is. Like they say a i3- 4350 bottlenecks with this GPU. So how much worse is it on the gtx 960 >:D. By the way what would a overclock to 4.4Ghz bring?
 
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The 2400 will run modern games better then the G3258, if you already have one. Even Minecraft will run better with four threaded CPUs. Why not an i3 4170? I don't play anything modernish at less than 1080p, so I can't help much with low resolutions.
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iam2thecrowe

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the problem is not so much a bottleneck of the cpu not being able to feed the gpu, but the cpu not being able to run the game engine fluidly. Because it is only 2 cores it can easily get interrupted by other processes. IMO at 1080p, a 960 should be the minimum regardless of cpu, but your cpu will still hold you back in many games. and stuttering because it only has 2 cores the cpu can get interrupted more easily.
 
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DonkeyOatie

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What games in particular? Modern games have moved past two core/two thread CPUs. I would not use less than an i3 for a modern gaming system. (I have two G3258's and use them for testing and overclocking practice at school)

Aside from that, the balance between GPU and CPU depends on specific games, game settings, and resolution and refresh speed.
 
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Tallon Serkanic

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Well first to reply to iamthecrowe. I turn off all background programs when i start gaming and have set the priority in task manager to realtime when i game. To DonkeyOatie, I mainly play Bf4, Minecraft with lower chunks (when my cousin is over.), BO3, and Mirrors Edge Catalyst. And to bicycle_repair_man, i can overclock because i have some of headroom. (650w and a gigabyte h61m motherboard which can now overclock.).

To everyone. 2 BIG THINGS I FORGOT TO MENTION! I play at 720p with 120hz or 1080p at 60hz. Someties i like 720p at 60hz. I do this for the FPS , and i dont really notice resolution that much as even 480p can look sharp with a 480p monitor XD.
2nd big thing: I have a spare lga 1155 motherboard and i5 2400 laying aroun. Should i use that instead or wait a really long time for a i3 4130?
 
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The 2400 will run modern games better then the G3258, if you already have one. Even Minecraft will run better with four threaded CPUs. Why not an i3 4170? I don't play anything modernish at less than 1080p, so I can't help much with low resolutions.
 
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Tallon Serkanic

Tallon Serkanic

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I was able to get a old lga 1155 motherboard and got my i5 2400 set up. Much better almost a 20 fps improvement on battlefield 4. It is also future-proof because it has 4 cores rather then 2. Thx!
 
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