R9 270x and Quad Core q9400 Bottleneck

AVilchis2

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Is pairing a r9 270x, Intel quad core q9400, and 4gb of ram good enough for most games? Will it bottleneck badly? Which should I upgrade first
 
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Depends on what kind of games you're playing, it will run most but the Q9400 and even RAM will hold you back pretty severely in any game that was made after about 2012-2013. The 270X is still ok for 1080p gaming.
Depends on budget, cheapest would be a G4560 and either a b250 or H110 motherboard (if it has the kaby lake BIOS preinstalled), but I'd personally wait for Ryzen 5 to come out and decide between the 1500X and the i5 6500 once the benchmarks are released.