E8400 will bottleneck?

[Sherwin Lee]

Hey guys.....I have a old LGA775 system,which I basically savaged every old unused computer in my house,I rebuilt it last week,and in fact I did post a topic on it.....I savaged a e8400 from my family's unused s**t computer,so I put that in,also found some unused RAM,to bump the capacity to 4GB.I did a ever so slightly overclock on the CPU,from 3 to 3.05 GHz.There is a Geforce 210 (I know,very old,this is the earlier version with GDDR2) ,in which I also did a slight overclock by 50MHz on memory and the core,but even in games like Minecraft my speeds is jumping from 5FPS to 70FPS,then down again (settings wise,basically at low with 4 chunks) .I plan to get a new graphics card,but I WILL buy it used,because my budget is very tight,around 30 to 60 ish dollars,since my family is strict on how things work.This kinda isn't troubleshooting,but help?

 

Specs

Intel C2D E8400 @ 3.05GHz,cooled by a Xigmatek Apache III

Gigabyte GA-G41 Combo

Asus EN210 with 512 MB GDDR2

Some random case

Some random power supple

Some random Hitachi 80 (faceplam)GB SATA 2 hard drive

A freaking IDE optical drive

 

P.S:My random power supply does not have PCI-E power connectors,so....yeah

[niofalpha]

Depending on the GPU possibly.

 

For one in that budget, probably not.

[Sherwin Lee]

Thanks for the quick reply,but I did say used though.

[Prashank]

I doubt anything manufactured within last 3 years (at least) will NOT get bottlenecked.

[Sherwin Lee]

Examples?It must be power saving though.

[SuperPug]

Examples?It must be power saving though.

 

You can get a GTX 460 for about 60$ on ebay... Its not exactly "power saving" but it should be nicely balanced with the E8400.

[Sherwin Lee]

GTX460?That is a little too old for me.....if I am going for that I might need to get some used power supply to power it though.Will a 750 Ti bottleneck?

[Prashank]

GTX460?That is a little too old for me.....if I am going for that I might need to get some used power supply to power it though.Will a 750 Ti bottleneck?

You can do get a 750ti but you will not be able to play most recent cpu heavy games cuz your frames will drop every time your cpu is busy with something. So i would not recommend it for gaming.