Pentium with a gtx980

Laxmi Narayan Somayaji · Mar 22, 2017

I found a deal for the evga gtx 980 sc for 140$(including shipping to my country).I can only afford the pentium with it.Is it a good choice.
BTW this card is cheaper than a new rx 470.

Uniqueusername0x00 · Mar 22, 2017

Remember that gtx 980 requires 500w PSU at minimal stage...

rcald2000 · Mar 22, 2017

If you have to pair it with a GTX 980, then try to get a Pentium G4560 and B250 chipset motherboard. The G4560 is dual core, but with hyperthreading. A lesser Pentium, without hyperthreading, won't be as good a match.

Eggz · Mar 22, 2017

Which Pentium? Getting the newest hyperthreaded one will help you get the most out of your 980. No matter which one you get, though, you'll see a little bit of CPU bottlenecking that prevents your GPU from working at 100%. That's because the CPU can't deliver information to the GPU as fast as the GPU can process it, but it won't be a huge problem. Faced with a choice between a fast CPU and a fast GPU for a gaming machine, getting the fast GPU is the better choice as long as the CPU is at least fast enough to feed the GPU in most cases (i.e. don't get any CPU that's much older than the GPU). Worst case is that the CPU will hold you over until you can afford to upgrade your CPU. That will in turn hold you over until you can afford to upgrade your GPU, and so on. In the meantime, you'll have a decent gaming machine that will run most games. Ejoy!

Gon Freecss · Mar 22, 2017

I would recommend to pair it with either an i7-4790k or an i7-5775c.

dontlistentome · Mar 22, 2017

You can pair the 980 with anything that has the motherboard slot for it and as long as you have the power supply for it. But usually people on a Pentium budget don't get their hands on videocards like the 980, how is it you found this deal? It sounds too good to be true.

Laxmi Narayan Somayaji · Mar 24, 2017

It is on Ebay here

http://www.ebay.com/itm/EVGA-GTX-980-SC-4GB-ACX-2-0-/192135163394?hash=item2cbc25ee02:g:U-UAAOSwsW9Y0CuO

35$ shipping to my country

chemmajorp53 · Mar 24, 2017

It has 3 days left in the auction, it'll probably sell for $190-200

rcald2000 · Mar 24, 2017

+Laxmi Narayan Somayaji If you want a decent chance of winning the auction at a reasonable price, then I suggest that you create and use the Esnipe service to do so. I've personally used it for 15 years and it's saved me a considerable amount of money with Ebay auctions over the years.

https://www.esnipe.com/

sizzling · Mar 24, 2017

The main question, which Pentium and how much RAM?

Laxmi Narayan Somayaji · Mar 25, 2017

I am talkng about the PENTIUM G4560 and 8 GB ram

sizzling · Mar 25, 2017

Then it should work well but some games fps will be limited by your cpu

Goran Petric · Mar 25, 2017

Gon Freecss :

Please staph...

Yeah pentium is amazing budget cpu, frames will be high, but bit bottlenecked in some games tho, not a big deal, later on you can put modern skylake/kabylake i5 in place of that pentium g4560. Btw you do realize that is an auction? You wont get that card for 130.... -_-

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