Posted October 13, 2015 Hi all, I'm planning on upgrading my GPU in a couple of months and have landed on the 390x. I originally was going to go with the GTX 980 (having owned Nvidia cards all my life) but will gladly trade a few fps at 1080p to be able to afford a 2k 1440p monitor. What I'm wondering is whether or not my old 3570k CPU @ 4.1ghz on core 1 will be able to keep up in radeon-optimized and Mantle API games like BF4. Thoughts? i5 3570k @4.2GHz Corsair H100i GTX Asus P8Z77-V PRO OCZ 650W PSU Nvidia GTX 760 SSC 2GB Corsair Carbide 500R SanDisk PLUS 120GB SSD Seagate Barracuda 500 GB HDD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted October 13, 2015 Hi all, I'm planning on upgrading my GPU in a couple of months and have landed on the 390x. I originally was going to go with the GTX 980 (having owned Nvidia cards all my life) but will gladly trade a few fps at 1080p to be able to afford a 2k 1440p monitor. What I'm wondering is whether or not my old 3570k CPU @ 4.1ghz on core 1 will be able to keep up in radeon-optimized and Mantle API games like BF4. Thoughts? It shouldn't bottleneck at all don't worry SetupCPU: i3 4160|Motherboard: MSI Z97 PC MATE|RAM: Kingston HyperX Blue 8GB(2x4GB)|GPU: Sapphire Nitro R9 380 4GB|PSU: Seasonic M12II EVO 620W Modular|Storage: 1TB WD Blue|Case: NZXT S340 Black|PCIe devices: TP-Link WDN4800| Montior: ASUS VE247H| Others: PS3/PS4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted October 13, 2015 One advise, don't get the Gigabyte G1 390/x. Its a very problematic card. And asus as well. The rest are good to go. i5 2400 | ASUS RTX 4090 TUF OC | Seasonic 1200W Prime Gold | WD Green 120gb | WD Blue 1tb | some ram | a random case Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted October 13, 2015 Yup, a 3570k is still good enough for high end GPUs. Like Pohernori said though, I've heard nothing but bad things about the Gigabyte 390(x)'s, so I would avoid those. RIP in pepperonis m8s Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted October 13, 2015 nope, it'll not bottleneck Key Switches Guide | LLT Beginner Guide | GPU TDP & Power Consumption Explained | PSU Tier ｓ ａ ｄ ｂ ｏ ｙ ｓ ２ ０ ０ １ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted October 13, 2015 no bottlenecks but get a MSI or Sapphire card - Gigabyte 390 and 390X are shit Archangel (Desktop) CPU: i5 4590 GPU:Asus R9 280 3GB RAM:HyperX Beast 2x4GBPSU:SeaSonic S12G 750W Mobo:GA-H97m-HD3 Case:CM Silencio 650 Storage:1 TB WD RedCelestial (Laptop 1) CPU:i7 4720HQ GPU:GTX 860M 4GB RAM:2x4GB SK Hynix DDR3Storage: 250GB 850 EVO Model:Lenovo Y50-70Seraph (Laptop 2) CPU:i7 6700HQ GPU:GTX 970M 3GB RAM:2x8GB DDR4Storage: 256GB Samsung 951 + 1TB Toshiba HDD Model:Asus GL502VTWindows 10 is now MSX! - http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/440190-can-we-start-calling-windows-10/page-6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted October 14, 2015 Author I was also thinking about the 390x Devil from PowerCooler, the hybrid water cooled card. After reading all the reviews about heat problems I'm leaning more towards it. i5 3570k @4.2GHz Corsair H100i GTX Asus P8Z77-V PRO OCZ 650W PSU Nvidia GTX 760 SSC 2GB Corsair Carbide 500R SanDisk PLUS 120GB SSD Seagate Barracuda 500 GB HDD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted October 14, 2015 I was also thinking about the 390x Devil from PowerCooler, the hybrid water cooled card. After reading all the reviews about heat problems I'm leaning more towards it. Well. If it isn't that much more expensive then I'd say why not. But all the other cards like XFX, Msi, Sapphire, powercolor have built really beastly coolers for their cards. Those cards don't have any heating problems unless you have a faulty one. i5 2400 | ASUS RTX 4090 TUF OC | Seasonic 1200W Prime Gold | WD Green 120gb | WD Blue 1tb | some ram | a random case Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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