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Will Intel Core I3 4130 @3.4ghz Bottleneck with R9 280x ?

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It shouldn't. The i3-4130 is a decently powerful CPU, so you should be fine, unless it's a heavily CPU intensive game, then it might bottleneck. Ask @zappian, I know she has an i3.

Hi Guys , Recently i have decided to buy the r9 280x , and i wanna know if it will bottle neck with my I3 4130 ?

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Nope. It shouldn't.

 

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Probably not most of the time, if it does it'll be very slight. 

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It shouldn't. The i3-4130 is a decently powerful CPU, so you should be fine, unless it's a heavily CPU intensive game, then it might bottleneck. Ask @zappian, I know she has an i3.

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In single player games it will be fine but in some multiplayer games, like BF4, it will bottleneck. It depends on the game if it will bottleneck. You could always go with it now and upgrade your CPU later if you want some extra performance.

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In all but the most recent heavily multi-threaded AND CPU (both need be true, this isn't an either/or statement) demanding games, no, it'll be fine.

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Yes actually it will bottleneck most advanced games and you cant overclock it either.

No, no it won't.

 

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Title is slightly miselading, it looks like a r9 280x will bottleneck the cpu xD

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Bf4 it does

*not on most. Obviously, on some it will. But for a lot it won't. Obviously it will on things like bf4 and arma.

 

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*not on most. Obviously, on some it will. But for a lot it won't. Obviously it will on things like bf4 and arma.

Like i said ''most advanced'' games you dumbo...

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Like i said ''most advanced'' games you dumbo...

Arms isn't advanced. Its actually only CPU intensive because its about as well optimized as [insert Ubisoft game here].

And its not even most, its just some.

 

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Nope. It shouldn't.

 

 

Ya you should be fine, like maybe in a couple of years you will need an upgrade but in most modern games it will be fine.

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If you are gaming a GPU intensive like BF4 or some heavy AAA titles it may be a little bit bottleneck.

 

Otherwise it'll be fine.

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  • 2 weeks later...

I know most people saying no here and that is true to some extent. There seems to be a problem with i3s and AMD GPUs at about 280 upwards. They get overly bottlenecked while the NVIDIA cards that perform at the same level of each respective AMD card at this range doesn't get bottlenecked. It's a strange phenomenon which is gone for games where Mantle is supported so I guess it will go away when DirectX 12 comes along:

 



They revisited it for when reviewing the GTX 960, this time over a number of games:

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Bf4 it does

It actually doesn't. Its able to run bf4 64 player at a pretty constant framerate. Just ask @i_build_nanosuits , he did a video running paracel storm on a core i3 4130 and gtx 780 and the results may surprise you.

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It actually doesn't. Its able to run bf4 64 player at a pretty constant framerate. Just ask @i_build_nanosuits , he did a video running paracel storm on a core i3 4130 and gtx 780 and the results may surprise you.

The i3-4130 and R9 280X is a good match but the i3 will be the liming factor in some games, especialy some cpu intensive recent modern games that had released in 2014 (watchdogs, dragon age or ACU for example...MMO's, indie games...)

 

I did ran this on a full BF4 server and the GTX780 was fed pretty much all it can handle BUT i was using EXTREMELY GPU intensive settings (full anti-aliasing, 110% resolution scalling) and the shadwoplay recording done on the GPU also helps raising it's global GPU usage...the FPS where still much lower than when i game with my 4.2ghz i7...so the CPU was indeed somewhat limiting this GPU performance.

 

So, The i3-4130 is absolutely NOT a CPU that i recommend to match with a GTX780 except if the user game at 1440p resolution for example and aim for 45FPS...BUT pairing this i3 with a 200$ Radeon GPU absolutely makes sense IMHO.

For budget 1080p gaming, i'd do it in a heart beat...but an i5-4440 or i5-4460 would be a better CPU choice if at all possible.

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