Will the Pentium permanently damage (bottleneck) a 970?

[x697]

Here's my build:

 

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/RTVYzy

 

If I get the Pentium, will it damage a 970 because of bottlenecking? I'm planning to upgrade my cpu later down the line

 

Sorry if it's a stupid question, I'm planning on building my first pc soo I'm kinda clueless here

[gojira]

Here's my build:

 

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/RTVYzy

 

If I get the Pentium, will it damage a 970 because of bottlenecking? I'm planning to upgrade my cpu later down the line

 

Sorry if it's a stupid question, I'm planning on building my first pc soo I'm kinda clueless here

 

It won't break it, it just won't be fast enough for it.

[TheSLSAMG]

No. Bottlenecking doesn't damage anything.

[CalebTheEternal]

There are no stupid questions. Well... I take that back I always ask dumb questions... Anyway it wont break it, it will just not run at it's full potential until you get a better CPU.

[TheKDub]

Here's my build:

 

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/RTVYzy

 

If I get the Pentium, will it damage a 970 because of bottlenecking? I'm planning to upgrade my cpu later down the line

 

Sorry if it's a stupid question, I'm planning on building my first pc soo I'm kinda clueless here

 

A bottleneck will not cause any damage at all, it will simply just lower the overall performance until the bottleneck is fixed.

[QueenDemetria]

Here's my build:

 

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/RTVYzy

 

If I get the Pentium, will it damage a 970 because of bottlenecking? I'm planning to upgrade my cpu later down the line

You will be fine, bottlenecks don't hurt anything(other than performance). If anything, your GPU will be cooler since it won't have to work as hard.

[The_Doctor7019]

if you have a pentium and you are looking at a gtx 970 you might want to look into a better cpu first

[Meawa]

try for a i5 or something like that

[Humbug]

Will be perfectly safe, don't worry.

A bottleneck simply means that one part of the system prevents another from reaching it's full performance potential. It's not dangerous.

[Drackeo]

Personally I love my g3258. I think its a great starting cpu being overclockable and all. Got mine ruinning at 4.8 rn

But If you overclock the cpu you'll lessen the over all bottleneck that it will create. Mine barely bottlenecks my2080x

[lukky211111]

Personally I love my g3258. I think its a great starting cpu being overclockable and all. Got mine ruinning at 4.8 rn

But If you overclock the cpu you'll lessen the over all bottleneck that it will create. Mine barely bottlenecks my2080x

4.8? holy hell dude....

[Remilia]

Think of a computer like a group of people that always want to jog at the same pace. If someone can't keep up, the others will slow down their pace to stay together. The 970 would be a pretty fast person, but he would just slow down to match the slower pentium person. If you get a faster CPU, the 970 won't have to "slow down" as much.

 

So no, bottle necking does not result in deterioration of components. You should be careful with the PSU though, don't take bottlenecking into account when deciding which to buy, always go a little overkill for good measure.

[Mew]

I think it's better to go with a faster cpu because you'll see similar performance with a slower gpu and faster cpu as a slower cpu and faster gpu but the added benefit of utilizing the faster cpu and tasks other than gaming.

[Adriano33]

You could consider bottleneck as a speed limiter.

In this case the CPU could act that way, thus throttling down the performance of the GPU.

It's annoying, but it won't damage any components.

So don't worry about it.

But don't skimp on the PSU though.

Buy a good one from a respectable brand, also a bit more wattage wouldn't hurt.

[Syntaxvgm]

Bottlenecking doesn't damage anything. Turtlenecking does.

[AliveGhost13]

I'd get a better PSU than the Corsair CX, it's a budget and cheaply built unit. Also, I'd much rather have an i3/i5 with something like a 290X/290/280X

[x697]

Thanx guys!

Should I get an i5 and a 969 instead ?

[AliveGhost13]

Don't get a 960, get a 280X which is faster, has a proper mem bus and 3GB VRAM

[x697]

Could I get an evga psu? 500 watts ?

[x697]

Ok thanx

[AliveGhost13]

Which EVGA PSU were you thinking of? If it's the 80+ bronze one, it's still not the best but it is better than the CX

[Drackeo]

4.8? holy hell dude....

I definitely lucked out with it

......and then some

[Blackie Sheen]

Thanx guys!

Should I get an i5 and a 969 instead ?

If you can push your budget a little higher, and want to keep the 970, replace the pentium in your pricelist by an I3-4160 or a i3-4130. Here's an updated pricelist with my suggestion in it:

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/WDYW8d

[SteveGrabowski]

How far in the future are you getting an i5 or i7? Because a Pentium G3258 and a 970 are not a good combo. I had my G3258 at 4.4 GHz and the framerates were really unsteady in new games, it wasn't a good experience at all with my GTX 970. As soon as I replaced my 4.4 GHz Pentium G3258 with a 3.6 GHz Xeon E3-1231v3 I finally saw the full power out of my 970 and my gaming performance went from frustrating to awesome. If you mean you're buying your 4690k or 4790k in two months or so, then yeah, you can play games at 30 FPS for a while on your Pentium. But if you're thinking of buying the i5 or i7 in six months or a year it would be a waste of money to buy a GTX 970 when you won't get very good performance out of it with the Pentium and by the time you have enough CPU to run it properly there will be better GPUs for the money out there.

[CalumGiff]

Here's my build:

 

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/RTVYzy

 

If I get the Pentium, will it damage a 970 because of bottlenecking? I'm planning to upgrade my cpu later down the line

 

Sorry if it's a stupid question, I'm planning on building my first pc soo I'm kinda clueless here

Bottlenecking basically means the processor cant feed the GPU enough information for the GPU to work at full load, so no it wont damage the card it will just cause the card to work at less than peak efficiency