Will E8400 bottleneck my GPU

[chanhien]

Hello,I'm using core 2 duo E8400 stock speed.Going to buy a GTX 650Ti,I wonder if my cpu would bottleneck it in bf3 res 1280x1024 ?

 

[ASHISH65]

Your cpu will not bottleneck much.might be in multiplayer games(nothing serious).you can overclock that cpu easily with after market cooler in future.just go with gtx 650ti and enjoy the ride.

 

[chanhien]

Your cpu will not bottleneck much.might be in multiplayer games(nothing serious).you can overclock that cpu easily with after market cooler in future.just go with gtx 650ti and enjoy the ride.

wait,how much fps will i lost?and what hardware is bottlenecking the other? (cpu bottleneck gpu or reserved?)

 

[3ogdy]

the E8400 might bottleneck the GTX650Ti but not by much . The only thing worth keeping in mind is that games optimized to take advantage of multi-core (quad-core, hexa-core and octal-core) CPUs might provide an experience that's less than ideal, due to the fact that they can't split the workload across more cores. Your next immediate upgrade should be a quad-core CPU.

 

[ASHISH65]

cpu bottlenecking gpu just may losse few fps.just chill

 

[chanhien]

So can you recommand me a new GPU?And I should OC my card after pluging in?

 

[ASHISH65]

go with gtx 650ti and get coolermaster hyper evo 212 cooler and overclock the cpu

 

[chanhien]

go with gtx 650ti and get coolermaster hyper evo 212 cooler and overclock the cpu

After replacing the new main,I don't even know how to oc it.And If you can recommand me a cheaper card (For gaming) I'd appreciated. (Like HD7770?)

 

[ASHISH65]

he dude it is not compulsary to overclock cpu.just for more performance.

go with gtx 650ti.you will be happy

do not worry about bottleneck

 

[chanhien]

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