Bad idea?

Gabe · July 12, 2015

So...

I was basically wondering if there would be any point in investing in a new GPU and if it would be a bottle neck to say get a R9 380? yesterday at my friends house we put his R9 290x in my rig (Pentium g3258 @4.5ghz, 8gb ram, 500 watt and normally a gtx 750ti) and it ran like a dream, obviously there will have been a bottle neck in some games, but is it worth saving for such a powerful card?

you tell me...

THANKS!

ADZ_123_!"£ · July 12, 2015

A 380 would be fine but I wouldn't put any higher tier of card in with a pentium.

thekeemo · July 12, 2015

when isnt it a good idea? and a pretty even match for a 380 (although there are better gpus for the money namely im guessing there are 290s at the same price)

Badger906 · July 12, 2015

So...

I was basically wondering if there would be any point in investing in a new GPU and if it would be a bottle neck to say get a R9 380? yesterday at my friends house we put his R9 290x in my rig (Pentium g3258 @4.5ghz, 8gb ram, 500 watt and normally a gtx 750ti) and it ran like a dream, obviously there will have been a bottle neck in some games, but is it worth saving for such a powerful card?

you tell me...

THANKS!

a heavily overclocked G3258 performs just as well as much more expensive cpus in games that aren't heavily dependant on multi core processors. so in some games you'll get a very acceptable performance boost.

But some games that are heavily cpu bound you'll be held back considerably by your dual core cpu. But its a good match regardless! young et very decent 1080p performance.