Will i5 760 hinder radeon hd 6970

[lostgamer_03]

Hello everyone!

So I want a gaming rig to about 800$!

All i care about on this rig is gaming 100%, because everything else is done on my laptop.

I found a guy who want to sell me a pretty darn good rig at 800$!

The PSU is on 720 watt, it has 1 TB HDD, 8 GB of ram, XFX radeon hd 6970 and then comes what I don't really like about it, it has a really old CPU. It's the i5-760 quad-core clocked at 2.8 GHz (3.33 GHz turbo). It should actually be pretty good at overclocking I've heard.

But let's get down to bussiness, is the CPU good enough for the GPU or is it going to "bottle-neck"?

 

[Kamen_BG]

Yes the CPU is prett good.Good enough for all but the most powerfull graphics cards.
But for that kind of money you can do much better!Im talking about a PC thats better than this in every aspect! (Yes even the power supply!)

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: Intel Core i5-2500K 3.3GHz Quad-Core Processor ($159.99 @ Microcenter)
CPU Cooler: Corsair CAFA50 61.0 CFM CPU Cooler ($17.99 @ Newegg)
Motherboard: ASRock Z68 PRO3 GEN3 ATX LGA1155 Motherboard ($104.99 @ Newegg)
Memory: G.Skill Sniper 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($45.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($82.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Video Card: MSI Radeon HD 7870 2GB Video Card ($259.99 @ Newegg)
Case: Zalman Z9 ATX Mid Tower Case ($29.96 @ Microcenter)
Power Supply: OCZ 600W ATX12V / EPS12V Power Supply ($44.99 @ Microcenter)
Optical Drive: Sony AD-7280S-0B DVD/CD Writer ($16.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $763.88
(Prices include shipping and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2012-08-04 15:52 EDT-0400)

 

[lostgamer_03]

I'm no engineer when it comes to building a desktop, so to build it myself is no way an option.

I forgot to mention that I live in Denmark, and everything here is pretty expensive. So for the same money, I won't get anything close to what he is offering.

 

[Kamen_BG]

Then buy his PC.It's still pretty good but make sure his PSU is good.Ive personally never seen a 720W power supply.

 

[casualcolors]

A 10 minute youtube video is sufficient education to build your own desktop, if it even remotely interests you.

 

[HEXiT]

yep its not the hardest thing you will ever do and you will learn a lot about your pc while doing it. as for the cpu being a bottleneck , NO!, it has plenty of bandwidth to cope with that card even on single threaded apps...

if you had an amd phenom 2 you would likely show the first signs of a bottleneck but as your intel it wont as it can do more per clock.
i would suggest you get a 3rd party cooler and overclock the cpu to 3.3-3.6 turbo off. as it will give about 15% more headroom. and reduce the chance of a bottleneck even further.
currently there isnt a single gfx card out including a 690 or 7990 dual gpu single pcb cards that will trouble any 2.6 or better quad i5/i7 regardless of whether there gen 1 2 or 3. they just have bags of bandwidth and arte unlikley to be troubled until the gtx 890/ hd 9990(if ati stick to plan) which are 2 generations away 2014-15
the reality is the old core 2 quad can still handle gfx cards as well as any i5 when overclocked to 3.0 and that cpu is gettiung on to 7 years old. i5/i7 are what 3.5 years old so theres still plenty of bite in the old dog yet.