Pentium G840(50) + AMD HD6870 = Bottleneck?

[Yoyoman2000]

Hello.

I am hoping of building a PC but I don't have a massive amount of money to spend. In fact I have little money to spend. The plan is to get a Pentium G840/50 and a Powercolor HD6870 and upgrade the CPU when ivy bridge comes out (or maybe just buy a then cheaper quad core i5). I want to know if the pentium will bottleneck the hd6870. I play to play bf3, dirt 3(free coupon with card) and older dx9 RTS games. My monitor res is 1024x1280.

Thanks in advance for any replies.

Links:

http://www.ebuyer.com/248745-powercolor-hd-6870-1gb-gddr5-dual-dvi-hdmi-dual-mini-displayport-pci-e-ax6870-1gbd5-2dh

http://www.ebuyer.com/264715-intel-pentium-g850-2-9ghz-socket-1155-3mb-l3-cache-retail-boxed-processor-bx80623g850

http://www.ebuyer.com/264712-intel-pentium-g840-2-8ghz-socket-1155-3mb-l3-cache-retail-boxed-processor-bx80623g840

 

[diec4st]

The G840 will be fine for now but I don't think waiting for Ivy Bridge is REALLY worth it unless getting a 77W CPU instead of a 95W 2500k (with a z68 board) makes some kind of difference to you.

 

[Yoyoman2000]

The G840 will be fine for now but I don't think waiting for Ivy Bridge is REALLY worth it unless getting a 77W CPU instead of a 95W 2500k (with a z68 board) makes some kind of difference to you.

I wouldn't be waiting; I would just use the socket to get an upgrade if you know what I mean.

So no bottleneck?

 

[farrengottu]

battlefield 3 requires vary little for cpu. but the g840/g850 are plenty fast. they are just a slightly slower i3 2100 without hyper threading. in other words they are quite fast.

 

[Yoyoman2000]

Best answer selected by Yoyoman2000.

 

[Yoyoman2000]

Thanks; I will go with that setup!