- Jul 6, 2017
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I recently bought my cousin's old gaming computer that he built back in 2009 or so and unfortunately it hasn't been performing well at all with new games. The current GPU is a GTX 560, the CPU is an AMD Phenom II X4 840 at 3.2Ghz and it only has 6Gbs of RAM. I intend on replacing the old RAM cards with two 4Gb HyperX sticks and the GPU to a GTX 1050.
My problem is that the motherboard has an AM3 socket and to get a reasonable CPU upgrade I'll also need to get a new motherboard, and doing that doesn't fit my tight budget. I want to ask if the old CPU will bottleneck the GPU, although I assume it would; I don't demand much of my PC games other than a 60fps 1080p performance, texture details don't matter much to me. So if you know that the old CPU will stop the GTX 1050 from getting that kind of performance please let me know.
My problem is that the motherboard has an AM3 socket and to get a reasonable CPU upgrade I'll also need to get a new motherboard, and doing that doesn't fit my tight budget. I want to ask if the old CPU will bottleneck the GPU, although I assume it would; I don't demand much of my PC games other than a 60fps 1080p performance, texture details don't matter much to me. So if you know that the old CPU will stop the GTX 1050 from getting that kind of performance please let me know.
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