Bottlenecking

[Lowspecgamer]

Will a Zotac Gtx 1050 mini bottleneck a overclocked pentium 4 g3258 clocked at 4.2 ghz ? If so will it be crippling 

[Wolther]

In what game.? 

Sometimes CPUs bottleneck gpus in one game, but the gpu may bottleneck the cpu in another. 

[Lowspecgamer]

 

On 11/27/2016 at 3:06 AM, Wolther said:

In what game.? 

Sometimes CPUs bottleneck gpus in one game, but the gpu may bottleneck the cpu in another. 

Fallout 4 and gta 5

[Wolther]

1 minute ago, Lowspecgamer said:

Fallout 4 and gta 5

Yeah, your CPU will bottleneck the 1050. Especially in GTA 5

[Lowspecgamer]

If I use a 750 ti sc

[Lowspecgamer]

2 minutes ago, Wolther said:

Yeah, your CPU will bottleneck the 1050. Especially in GTA 5

Will it bottleneck if I use a 750 ti sc instead ?

[Oswin]

 

[Wolther]

Just now, Lowspecgamer said:

Will it bottleneck if I use a 750 ti sc instead ?

No, not nearly as much. Don't let the issue of bottleneck limit what you want for hardware though. A 750 ti will only lead to you getting another upgrade to your GPU faster.

 

You can always buy the 1050 now and upgrade your CPU later. I think this is a better option, but that is just my opinion. 

[Lowspecgamer]

6 minutes ago, Wolther said:

No, not nearly as much. Don't let the issue of bottleneck limit what you want for hardware though. A 750 ti will only lead to you getting another upgrade to your GPU faster.

 

You can always buy the 1050 now and upgrade your CPU later. I think this is a better option, but that is just my opinion. 

If I overclock my CPU a little more would it reduce the bottleneck?

[Wolther]

1 minute ago, Lowspecgamer said:

If I overclock my CPU a little more would it reduce the bottleneck?

No matter how far you OC your cpu you can never get rid of the fact that it has only two cores and no HT. 

 

Obviously yes it will reduce the bottleneck, and you can do that if you were to go the route I had suggested

[Lowspecgamer]

2 minutes ago, Wolther said:

No matter how far you OC your cpu you can never get rid of the fact that it has only two cores and no HT. 

 

Obviously yes it will reduce the bottleneck, and you can do that if you were to go the route I had suggested

What CPU do you recommend to greatly reduce this bottleneck ? Also are you basing your information on experience or just the specs

[SCHISCHKA]

2 minutes ago, Lowspecgamer said:

What CPU do you recommend to greatly reduce this bottleneck ? Also are you basing your information on experience or just the specs

GTA 5 system requirements are Intel Core i5 3470 @ 3.2GHZ (4 CPUs) / AMD X8 FX-8350 @ 4GHZ (8 CPUs).

Looks like they want a quad core and I would not expect it to run on less than 4 threads no matter how much you overclock.

Heres GTA 5 running on AMDs cheapest CPU which is a dual core:

 

[Lowspecgamer]

1 minute ago, Strike105X said:

Fallout 4 will not be a problem especially if you can use high speed ram (dunno about the rest of your config), that game was optimized just as much for both dual cores as it was for multiple cores. Games like GTA5, Witcher 3, Assassin's Creed Syndicate that take advantage of 4 threads though, it wont be that good of an experience. That said, go for the 1050, while in some games it will bottleneck, in many it wont and it will improve performance, bottlenecking just means that your GPU wont be to be used to its full potential due to CPU limitations, but that's it.

Alright thx mate I'm gonna go for the 1050 and upgrade my CPU to an i3 and mobo in the future 

[SCHISCHKA]

14 minutes ago, Strike105X said:

You can't compare the G3258 with the lowest AMD dual core >.< they are worlds apart.... The G3258 should give about 40-45 FPS in GTA5 if i remember right.

how are they worlds apart? they're both shit and at the cheapest end. Intel has more cache but both are only good for office use

[SCHISCHKA]

3 minutes ago, Strike105X said:

If you actually compare them by cache alone i rest my case... There's more to CPU's then frequencies and cache, IPC for instance says hi as well, if you know what your doing the G3258, especially because its unlocked, is a beast (basically for tasks that rely heavily on 2 threads), yes with the recent advancements in gaming towards the use of 4 threads it did become less and less useful. That aside, due to the high IPC the intel G3258 is at least twice as fast as a poor AMD A4-7300, throw in the OC potential of the G3258 and it wipes the floor with the AMD A4-7300 in games like Skyrim Special Edition, Fallout 4, or emulation, in emulation its especially unbeatable due to the impressive value per performance it has, since most emulators out there focus on 2 threads.

TLDR they are both crap.