I3 550 bottleneck

[Guest]

Hello,
I am considering buying a 4870x2/GTX 295/5850 for my dell inspiron 580 and am wondering whether the 3.2 GHz i3 550 cpu will bottleneck the performance of these cards. I cant overclock the cpu. I was also wondering what wattage of power supply I should buy and whether these cards would actually fit into the in inspiron 580 case. My specs are:

i3 550 3.2 GHz
1 TB Hard Drive
ATI Radeon 5450
4 GB DDR3 RAM

 

[spp85]

Hello,
I am considering buying a 4870x2/GTX 295/5850 for my dell inspiron 580 and am wondering whether the 3.2 GHz i3 550 cpu will bottleneck the performance of these cards. I cant overclock the cpu. I was also wondering what wattage of power supply I should buy and whether these cards would actually fit into the in inspiron 580 case. My specs are:

i3 550 3.2 GHz
1 TB Hard Drive
ATI Radeon 5450
4 GB DDR3 RAM

You may face some bottleneck with that CPU. But still the CPU can provide a decent FPS on most of the today's games. I recommend you should go with the Radeon HD 6870 or your mentioned 5850 graphics card. Anyway stick with an AMD card because AMD Radeon cards are less depended on CPU factor than NVIDIA GeForces. If possible upgrade the CPU to a Quad Core processor.

 

[Guest]

Thanks