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Hi. I need help with some information and peace of mind. I am looking to buy a RTX 2080 to upgrade my PC but I have a fear of massively bottlenecking my CPU it is a Core i5 6400 6th gen it is a quad core and is boosted up to 3.3 Ghz. I want to know if this would affect my performance alot or will they work well together. Thank you for taking out time of your day to read and maybe respond to my post :). 

 

P.S The RTX 2080 I'm looking to buy is a MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Sea Hawk X 8GB GDDR6

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In CPU bound games you will struggle. What games do you play? Any plans in the future for a CPU upgrade? 4c/4t is aging very quickly.

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5 minutes ago, DuBsTePzCoOl said:

Hi. I need help with some information and peace of mind. I am looking to buy a RTX 2080 to upgrade my PC but I have a fear of massively bottlenecking my CPU it is a Core i5 6400 6th gen it is a quad core and is boosted up to 3.3 Ghz. I want to know if this would affect my performance alot or will they work well together. Thank you for taking out time of your day to read and maybe respond to my post :). 

 

P.S The RTX 2080 I'm looking to buy is a MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Sea Hawk X 8GB GDDR6

The more powerful CPU the higher frame rates the 2080 will dish out.  This is a nice bottleneck but I still think you should buy the card and think of a CPU upgrade in the future as your 2080 will thank you for that.

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Hi yes I am planned for future upgrades to the CPU the games I play is rust, siege and other GPU dependant games

 

and is the main reason why I am upgrading my gpu

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The CPU will likely hold the GPU back. However, depending on where you're coming from, you'll still see an appreciable upgrade. You just won't see all of it.

 

Basically, if you have a much slower GPU already, getting the 2080 will still be an upgrade since the CPU you're using isn't a complete potato. Then maybe in a year, you can save up for a new system that can take advantage of the GPU.

 

Otherwise if you upgrade the CPU + motherboard only, you won't get much of an improvement in games. If you try to get a "balanced" GPU, you're going to be hitting that upgrade itch much sooner.

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