will I bottleneck the gigabyte geforce gt 730 2GB

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avalon096

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Hey guys I am planning on buying a gigabyte geforce gt 730 2GB...just for some light gaming because my budget is a little low I just want to know if my cpu will bottleneck the card my specs:

Cpu-AMD sempron dual core 1.80ghz
ram ddr2 2 GB
300watt power supply
windows 7 ultimate 64bit

And if there is is it a small, medium, or big bottleneck

Or will it just be normal
 
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The question isn't whether it will bottleneck... it will. The question is whether you have a motherboard with an AGP slot, or a PCI-e slot. The 730 is an older GPU but it does use the PCIe slot. They are not compatible or interchangeable. Most 754 socket motherboards used the AGP interface.
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The question isn't whether it will bottleneck... it will. The question is whether you have a motherboard with an AGP slot, or a PCI-e slot. The 730 is an older GPU but it does use the PCIe slot. They are not compatible or interchangeable. Most 754 socket motherboards used the AGP interface.
 
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OfficialG3

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im more concerned to the ram and the cpu... 2gb for light gaming is pretty minimal, even windows itself took 1gb on standby
and the sempron 1.8ghz is worse than the standard c2d (actually its worse than the amd E1-2100, which itself is already a super duper low end cpu)

depends on what you mean by "light gaming"
but whatever the case is, it will bottleneck, mainly by the cpu
 
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If by light gaming you mean Starwars Battlefront (the original), Balders Gate, Neverwinter Nights and other such games designed around the time ppl were switching from Win98SE to Win XP, then you'll be fine. Anything really newer isn't going to be stuck by the low end cpu, but bogged down by lack of ram. If you had 4Gb of ram, then I'd be worried about the cpu.
 
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you could play pc games at low/medium settings at 720p that were released before 2010. Also note, there is a gddr5 and gddr3 version of the gt 730. The gddr3 version is basically a rebrand of the gt 630 (kepler)

http://www.geforce.com/hardware/desktop-gpus/geforce-gt-630/specifications
http://www.geforce.com/hardware/desktop-gpus/geforce-gt-730/specifications

there are plenty of low-end 2D low resolution Steam games that bring in value for the story or gameplay. Current gen games are more about high resolution, content, cinematic scenes, AA and immersion with a bunch of graphical settings. You could still watch youtube playthroughs/recordings. It saves money lol

 
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I played Half Life 2 on single core Pentium 4 2.4ghz CPU and an HD 5450 512mb, at 1024x768 on a 19" CRT that could only do 1024x768 at 85hz, any other resolution was 60hz. Where there is a will, there is a way. You have to be willing to sacrifice on some things, and work within your limitations. Definitely get the DDR5 version of the 730 if you can.
 
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