cpu bottleneck

[greenroost1445]

would an i3-3220 be bottlenecking a 7850?

[joelthezombie15]

for gaming i wouldnt recommend a i3 just saying but to answer your question. i dont think so.

[killerx525]

It should be perfectly fine with the 7850.

[winny3141]

Listen, if your playing games like Dota 2, it will not make much of a difference. This is because when using a 650 ti, the FPS of an i3 3220 is about 80 FPS, while if you take the FPS of an 8350 AMD CPU, you get around 83 fps, so it doesn't make much of a difference. FYI -- all benchmarks are at highest settings at 1680x1050 and are done by Tom's hardware: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/dota-2-performance-benchmark,3481-8.html .

However, Dota 2 and League of Legends (LOL) dont utilize the cpu as much as other games like Crysis 3, where an intel core i3 will get 40 FPS with a 680 at 1080p High Settings, while an 8350 will get 50 FPS and a 3550 will get 60 FPS, so it all is depending on what games your playing. In my opinion, a safe bet would be get a 7850 with a i5 3570k.

[winny3141]

The above benchmarks for Crysis 3 also came from Tom's Hardware and here is the link: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/crysis-3-performance-benchmark-gaming,3451-8.html

[mgsstar]

would an i3-3220 be bottlenecking a 7850?

No it will not bottleneck your gpu. But I would get a 3570k if you plan on upgrading your graphics card in the future in order to prevent bottlenecking.

[greenroost1445]

ok guys thanks

[skullbringer]

If you dont play cpu intensive AAA titles(Battlefield3, Crysis 3, FarCry3, Metro, etc.), then you should be fine playing LoL or sth like that.
But if you considering an upgrade:
Xeon 1230v2. i5 price (210$), i7 performace (hyper threading). 1155 socket, no overclocking, so B75 chipset is enough, so you safe a lot of money on your mainboard. But it has all the ivy features like pci-e 3.0.

This cpu is just the most awesome bang for your buck chip out there right now especially for gaming.