I3-2100 bottleneck 550ti sli

[dapuppet007]

Hello,
I'm going to get another MSI Cyclone OC 550ti to sli my system. Just wondering if my CPU will be able to handle it. And yes I will eventually grab a quadcore intel chip. Just wondering if what I have now will bottleneck 2 550ti's. Below is what I currently have.

i3 -2100
8gb ram (Gskill)
MSI Cyclone OC 550ti
XFX 650w

Thanks!

 

[amuffin]

No, the i3-2100 does not even bottleneck the gtx 680 and radeon 7970.

 

[xtreme5]

No, the i3-2100 does not even bottleneck the gtx 680 and radeon 7970.

@amuffin when i3 2100 become powerful to handle gtx 680 or hd 7970.

 

[noob2222]

Bottlenecks are yes and no. Games that don't rely on the cpu won't, but games that use the cpu a lot will. http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/build-gaming-pc-overclock,3159-12.html

2120 bottlenecking a 6950 in f1 2010 but not metro 2033. Sli would tax the cpu harder than a single card, how much ... couldn't say.

 

[HEXiT]

theres 0 chance of bottlenecking that cpu with that gfx card even with a game like bfbc2 which prefers more than 2 cores... your cpu has hyper threading so it will be able to handle it without a problem...
on gta 4 you will have a bottleneck though not because of the hardware but because the game is so badly ported... so stay away from games like it and you should have 0 issues.

 

[dapuppet007]

So what I'm pretty much getting from your replies are i3-2100 + 2 550ti in sli = no problem.

Thank you all!

 

[dapuppet007]

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[Mousemonkey]

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