Upgrading GPU/Bottlenecking

[Dovah99]

Hello everyone, I have a low range computer at home and I only play old cool/basic games ( OLD NFSMW, SIMS 4, COMMAND AND CONQER, ETC) when I check my performance (while in game) my gpu is at 100% I want to buy a new graphics cards but am worried about being bottlenecked, an sadly don't have enough to upgrade to DDR4. Any info would be greatly appreciated!! :)

 

My Specs

 

  QuadCore Intel core i7-860

  MSI P55M-GD45 (MS-7588)

  14G RAM

  Geforce Gt 630 2gb 

  ATX 300V Power supply 

[AnirbanG007]

6 minutes ago, Dovah99 said:

Hello everyone, I have a low range computer at home and I only play old cool/basic games ( OLD NFSMW, SIMS 4, COMMAND AND CONQER, ETC) when I check my performance (while in game) my gpu is at 100% I want to buy a new graphics cards but am worried about being bottlenecked, an sadly don't have enough to upgrade to DDR4. Any info would be greatly appreciated!! :)

 

My Specs

 

  QuadCore Intel core i7-860

  MSI P55M-GD45 (MS-7588)

  14G RAM

  Geforce Gt 630 2gb 

  ATX 12V Power supply 

I don't have a ton of experience in this regard, as it is relatively old hardware, but how does a (used) 750ti sound? I remember a friend who upgraded from a similar card to a 750ti. You could also look for a (used) 1050 ti which would obviously be better, but I don't know if you'll run into a CPU bottleneck.

[FloRolf]

Your GPU has to be on 100% in order for it to not be bottlenecked by the CPU. It's really hard to bottleneck a gt630 though

 

I'd say a 1650S would be a very neat upgrade and then you can always upgrade the CPU later. 

 

Also, a CPU bottleneck won't kill you, it just leaves some performance unused in certain games while in other it may not bottleneck. 

[LogicalDrm]

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Main problem with GPU upgrade is that unless your PSU is really, really good, you would probably have to look into upgrading that too.