Is this a Good Combo?

[Compaq226]

I'm going to be buying a Dell Optiplex 9020. It will have a i7 4790K, 16gb of ram, and MAYBE a RTX 3060. I don't know if the GPU is too powerful because it gets about a 25% bottleneck on bottleneck calculator. The games I'll be playing on the computer is going to very. Some older and easy to run game, newer games at 1080p and maybe vr games if like bonelab if possible. It anybody could tell me a better GPU that would fit me then that would be great. Thanks! 

[manikyath]

20 minutes ago, Compaq226 said:

it gets about a 25% bottleneck on bottleneck calculator.

ignore that, it's absolutely worthless information.

 

if the CPU cant keep up, just crank the graphics settings in game. stuff like AA adds significant GPU load while essentially not adding CPU load. 

[tomatensaftliebhaber027]

Great choice! I also once planned to aquire the i7-4790k. I agree with the above. The CPU is quite underwhelming. I'd suggest using a more affordable, less powerful graphics car and therefore a better CPU like an upper i7 for example the i7 9th gen., I also tried a bottleneck calculator and it just showed that the i9-11900KF (which is a really good CPU) has a 10% bottleneck, screw these calculators!

[QuantumSingularity]

3 hours ago, Compaq226 said:

 maybe vr games

I like your optimism... As for the CPU - it's not only the elderly status it has, it's the entire architecture and platform that is aged. It supports only DDR3 1333/1600, doesn't have support for ReBAR. Depending on the motherboard this CPU comes with, you might not even have PCIe Gen 3 support and be limited to only PCIe gen 2. At this point we are getting closer to AGP rather than the modern standards. The 3060 is not a fast GPU by no means, but even it will suffer if you put it in a PCIe 2.0 slot. It's basically like trying to put a modern automatic gearbox to a 40 yo car with everything else being from the 1980s. Better go for full authentic build and get a GTX 1070 or 1080 at most. It still will be more than that CPU can handle, but at least will fit the theme. Weirdly, it's the newer console ports that will run better on such an old CPU, because they absolutely trash the GPU at any detail settings. Stuff like RDR2, SOTTR, GOW. Older titles will basically torture the CPU close to 100% at all time, while the GPU stays in a lazy state of 25-40% utilization, probably not even starting its fans.