[SOLVED] Intel i5 6500

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About 2 years ago i built my PC. I made it with an i5 6500 and RX 480. Now i'm starting to see the limitations of the 480 and am thinking about an upgrade. So my question is how much of a bottleneck the i5 6500 would be when getting the RTX 2070. Thanks.
 
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Depends on the games you will be playing and your monitor resolution. For the most part, an RTX 2070 would be a good investment. But you should consider other things like your power supply, monitor, RAM, etc.

You don't want to pair the RTX 2070 with a low-quality power supply, and you might not want to spend all that money on a GPU that is overkill for 1080p 60Hz.

*Update: I forget to consider Ray-Tracing, that lowers performance and for 1080p 60Hz it might not be too overkill.

What are your complete system specs (including power supply and monitor) and what games do you play mostly?
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Depends on the games you will be playing and your monitor resolution. For the most part, an RTX 2070 would be a good investment. But you should consider other things like your power supply, monitor, RAM, etc.

You don't want to pair the RTX 2070 with a low-quality power supply, and you might not want to spend all that money on a GPU that is overkill for 1080p 60Hz.

*Update: I forget to consider Ray-Tracing, that lowers performance and for 1080p 60Hz it might not be too overkill.

What are your complete system specs (including power supply and monitor) and what games do you play mostly?
 
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For the monitor i have a 34" 1080p 75hz monitor (with freesync- as i have a radeon GPU). And then for my PC i have a i5 6500, NZXT x41 cooler (overkill i know but it looks nice), 8bg 2133 ram, 240gb ssd, 1tb hdd, RX 480 4bg and a gigabyte b150 motherboard - the GA-B150M-DS3H
 
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Oh okay. thanks. Its a 34" 1080p 75hz monitor by the way.
 
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Is it an ultrawide 1080p?
 
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Yeah it's an ultrawide. This is the title LG give it "LG 34UM69G 34 inch 1ms 75Hz Ultrawide IPS Gaming Monitor (2560 x 1080, HDMI, DisplayPort, 250 cd/m2, AMD Freesync)"


 
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