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Will The CPU Bottleneck Me?

alanp1995
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Hi ;) So I just bought my PC about 2 days ago and the parts will be arriving Tuesday. I was just doing some tests for games on the game-debate website and it says that my CPU is a Bottleneck....

I want to be able to run all games maxed out on ultra on 1080p, will that be an issue with the CPU? Or the computer in general?

Here is what I ordered.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4460 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor (Purchased For $0.00)

CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper TX3 54.8 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler (Purchased For $0.00)

Thermal Compound: Arctic Cooling MX4 4g Thermal Paste (Purchased For $0.00)

Motherboard: Asus H81I-PLUS Mini ITX LGA1150 Motherboard (Purchased For £0.00)

Memory: Kingston Fury Black Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (Purchased For $0.00)

Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (Purchased For £0.00)

Video Card: Zotac GeForce GTX 970 4GB Video Card (Purchased For $0.00)

Case: Thermaltake Core V1 Mini ITX Tower Case (Purchased For £0.00)

Power Supply: Fractal Design Edison M 650W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply (Purchased For $0.00)

Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8.1 OEM (64-bit) (Purchased For $0.00)

Case Fan: Arctic Cooling Arctic F8 31.0 CFM 80mm Fan (Purchased For $0.00)

Case Fan: Arctic Cooling Arctic F8 31.0 CFM 80mm Fan (Purchased For $0.00)

Monitor: AOC i2267Fw 60Hz 22.0" Monitor (Purchased For $0.00)

Headphones: Turtle Beach PX22 Headset (Purchased For $0.00)

Other: Trust ClassicLine Keyboard (Purchased)

Other: EasyAcc Grampus Gaming Mouse (Purchased)

Other: SteelSeries Surface QcK+ (Purchased)

Other: Bright Purple LED Strip 2 x 80cm (Purchased)

Total: $0.00

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

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No, it shouldn't bottleneck your system. I don't use Game-debate as a proper metric of performance.

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game debate is worthless.

No, it shouldn't bottleneck your system. I don't use Game-debate as a proper metric of performance.

Perfect so. I'll stay away from game debate from now on. Is there any other side which is better for entering specs? Since I don't have the computer yet to run the 'canirunit' test.

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Perfect so. I'll stay away from game debate from now on. Is there any other side which is better for entering specs? Since I don't have the computer yet to run the 'canirunit' test.

I can tell you straight away that your CPU will not bottleneck your system - if you're wondering how a particular card performs in titles, reviews are your best bet. You can find 970 reviews at Hardware Canucks, Anandtech, TechPowerUp, and Tom's Hardware.

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It'll be fine.

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Perfect so. I'll stay away from game debate from now on. Is there any other side which is better for entering specs? Since I don't have the computer yet to run the 'canirunit' test.

IMO the only good "can i run it" source is personal experience. there is too many factors, too many games and too much hardware to have a site like game-debate even make sense.

 

example: i researched into the site's credibility using the minecraft/intel HD graphics issue. basicly theres a glitch between minecraft and intel HD that makes the game unable to run higher than 30FPS, if it reaches that at all.

 

gamedebate didnt pick up on this at all, and gave even the lowest intel HD graphics a clean pass.

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Perfect so. I'll stay away from game debate from now on. Is there any other side which is better for entering specs? Since I don't have the computer yet to run the 'canirunit' test.

Anandtech has a very good comparison thing called Anandtech Bench

It has GPU 2015, 2014, etc (not very far in past) along with SSD, CPU, and devices like laptops or tablet benchmarks.

You can only compare two at a time though.

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Anandtech has a very good comparison thing called Anandtech Bench

It has GPU 2015, 2014, etc (not very far in past) along with SSD, CPU, and devices like laptops or tablet benchmarks.

You can only compare two at a time though.

Gonna give it a visit now, thanks ;)

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Hi ;) So I just bought my PC about 2 days ago and the parts will be arriving Tuesday. I was just doing some tests for games on the game-debate website and it says that my CPU is a Bottleneck....

I want to be able to run all games maxed out on ultra on 1080p, will that be an issue with the CPU? Or the computer in general?

Here is what I ordered.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4460 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor (Purchased For $0.00)

CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper TX3 54.8 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler (Purchased For $0.00)

Thermal Compound: Arctic Cooling MX4 4g Thermal Paste (Purchased For $0.00)

Motherboard: Asus H81I-PLUS Mini ITX LGA1150 Motherboard (Purchased For £0.00)

Memory: Kingston Fury Black Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (Purchased For $0.00)

Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (Purchased For £0.00)

Video Card: Zotac GeForce GTX 970 4GB Video Card (Purchased For $0.00)

Case: Thermaltake Core V1 Mini ITX Tower Case (Purchased For £0.00)

Power Supply: Fractal Design Edison M 650W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply (Purchased For $0.00)

Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8.1 OEM (64-bit) (Purchased For $0.00)

Case Fan: Arctic Cooling Arctic F8 31.0 CFM 80mm Fan (Purchased For $0.00)

Case Fan: Arctic Cooling Arctic F8 31.0 CFM 80mm Fan (Purchased For $0.00)

Monitor: AOC i2267Fw 60Hz 22.0" Monitor (Purchased For $0.00)

Headphones: Turtle Beach PX22 Headset (Purchased For $0.00)

Other: Trust ClassicLine Keyboard (Purchased)

Other: EasyAcc Grampus Gaming Mouse (Purchased)

Other: SteelSeries Surface QcK+ (Purchased)

Other: Bright Purple LED Strip 2 x 80cm (Purchased)

Total: $0.00

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-06-13 20:03 EDT-0400

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Hi ;) So I just bought my PC about 2 days ago and the parts will be arriving Tuesday. I was just doing some tests for games on the game-debate website and it says that my CPU is a Bottleneck....

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Use the cpu benchmarks of various titles to see if a cpu will "bottleneck" (aside: I really, really, really hate that term) a gpu. http://www.techspot.com/review/734-battlefield-4-benchmarks/page6.html for example shows various cpu in BF4 using an R9 290X. Presume +/- 1 fps as a margin of error. See just how far down the list one must go before there is a significant drop in fps. All those cpu with ~97 fps are being bottlenecked by the R9 290X. Your cpu is slightly better than the i5-3470. Your gpu is slightly worse than the R9 290X. Therefore, your gpu will bottleneck your cpu, not the other way around.

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