Core 2 Duo bottleneck GPU?

[alankace]

I have a desktop with a Core 2 Duo I bought back in 2006 or 2007. I want to be able to do some decent 1080p gaming without getting a new mobo and CPU. Would that CPU heavily bottleneck semi-modern videos cards like say, GTX 560 ti and onwards? Thanks.

[Godlygamer23]

A 550 Ti, 560, and 560 Ti are good cards to pair with that CPU(on the green team). Anything higher, and a bottleneck most likely will form.

[Levent]

you can do 1080p low quality gaming with 560ti and onwards because whatever you put will be highly bottlenecked by your cpu and possibly your ram

[911^NEmeSis]

Which one do you have? Ideally you can also OC a bit to squeeze some as much performance as you can. I'll say something like a 560ti is about right.

[Bluejay0]

I had an old Core 2 Duo. Switched it for a 3570K and with the same graphics card i got ALOT better preformance

[PCBudgetSolutions]

Ya an E8xxx series Core 2 Duo will do fine with a tier 1 5xx series GPU.

[KneesWeak]

you can do 1080p low quality gaming with 560ti and onwards because whatever you put will be highly bottlenecked by your cpu and possibly your ram

actually he should be cranking the settings high if he has a cpu bottleneck (setttings like graphics quality) I myself have a cpu bottlenecked system (minor) but I only see a 10-20 fps increase in games like bf3 going from low to ultra on 1080p, if the gpu is more OP than the cpu you should crank up graphics quality until the gpu is taxed to keep a good experience.  

[PCBudgetSolutions]

actually he should be cranking the settings high if he has a cpu bottleneck (setttings like graphics quality) I myself have a cpu bottlenecked system (minor) but I only see a 10-20 fps increase in games like bf3 going from low to ultra on 1080p, if the gpu is more OP than the cpu you should crank up graphics quality until the gpu is taxed to keep a good experience.  

An E8xxx Core 2 Duo can play BF3 fine, might be a lil sluggish online @ 1080p around 30 fps, but meh.

[Alex780]

I had a q6600 core 2 quad @ 3.0ghz and it slightly bottlenecked my gtx 470. I noticed it when I did some benchmarks with my new pc, in which I kept my 470.

Having said that, a core 2 duo would obviously bottleneck pretty much anything. Unless maybe it's clocked at 4ghz ^^