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hansnothanz
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Hi guys, i have a Core i3 3220 CPU, 8GB of ram and i want to upgrade to a R9 380 Nitro or R9 390 Nitro

 

wanted to know if my Cpu will be a bottle neck i i put a 380 or a 390 in my system

 

anyway my whole system spec list is listed below so you have the whole parts list

 

thanks in advance !

 

CPU: Intel Core i3-3220 3.3GHz Mother Board: ASUS P8B75-M LE GPU: PowerColor Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition RAM: Kingston 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1333 Case: Fractal Design Core 1000 Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB PSU: Thermaltake LT-500NL2NL 500W

PERIPHERALS: Mouse: Logitech G502 Keyboard: Corsair K70 RGB Cherry MX Brown Monitor: Dell S2340L 60Hz 23.0" Speakers: Harman Kardon Soundsticks III Mouse Pad: Steelseries QCK Headphones: Superlux HD 668B

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Hi guys, i have a Core i3 3220 CPU, 8GB of ram and i want to upgrade to a R9 380 Nitro or R9 390 Nitro

 

wanted to know if my Cpu will be a bottle neck i i put a 380 or a 390 in my system

 

anyway my whole system spec list is listed below so you have the whole parts list

 

thanks in advance !

 

Depending on the game, yes it could, especially the 390, many new games need quad cores to fun properly

 

(not that a bottleneck is inherently bad, you just wont be getting full performance out of the 390) 

Desktop - Corsair 300r i7 4770k H100i MSI 780ti 16GB Vengeance Pro 2400mhz Crucial MX100 512gb Samsung Evo 250gb 2 TB WD Green, AOC Q2770PQU 1440p 27" monitor Laptop Clevo W110er - 11.6" 768p, i5 3230m, 650m GT 2gb, OCZ vertex 4 256gb,  4gb ram, Server: Fractal Define Mini, MSI Z78-G43, Intel G3220, 8GB Corsair Vengeance, 4x 3tb WD Reds in Raid 10, Phone Oppo Reno 10x 256gb , Camera Sony A7iii

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Damn...

Depending on the game, yes it could, especially the 390, many new games need quad cores to fun properly

 

(not that a bottleneck is inherently bad, you just wont be getting full performance out of the 390) 

So if i switched to lets say a Z97-k with an i5 4590 there will be no more bottlenecks in my system?

CPU: Intel Core i3-3220 3.3GHz Mother Board: ASUS P8B75-M LE GPU: PowerColor Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition RAM: Kingston 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1333 Case: Fractal Design Core 1000 Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB PSU: Thermaltake LT-500NL2NL 500W

PERIPHERALS: Mouse: Logitech G502 Keyboard: Corsair K70 RGB Cherry MX Brown Monitor: Dell S2340L 60Hz 23.0" Speakers: Harman Kardon Soundsticks III Mouse Pad: Steelseries QCK Headphones: Superlux HD 668B

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Damn...

So if i switched to lets say a Z97-k with an i5 4590 there will be no more bottlenecks in my system?

 

Correct but you dont need a K motherboard for a locked 4590 i5

Desktop - Corsair 300r i7 4770k H100i MSI 780ti 16GB Vengeance Pro 2400mhz Crucial MX100 512gb Samsung Evo 250gb 2 TB WD Green, AOC Q2770PQU 1440p 27" monitor Laptop Clevo W110er - 11.6" 768p, i5 3230m, 650m GT 2gb, OCZ vertex 4 256gb,  4gb ram, Server: Fractal Define Mini, MSI Z78-G43, Intel G3220, 8GB Corsair Vengeance, 4x 3tb WD Reds in Raid 10, Phone Oppo Reno 10x 256gb , Camera Sony A7iii

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Correct but you dont need a K motherboard for a locked 4590 i5

oh, okay so whats a good bang for the buck full size ATX MB then and will a 600W power supply be enough to run the system

CPU: Intel Core i3-3220 3.3GHz Mother Board: ASUS P8B75-M LE GPU: PowerColor Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition RAM: Kingston 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1333 Case: Fractal Design Core 1000 Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB PSU: Thermaltake LT-500NL2NL 500W

PERIPHERALS: Mouse: Logitech G502 Keyboard: Corsair K70 RGB Cherry MX Brown Monitor: Dell S2340L 60Hz 23.0" Speakers: Harman Kardon Soundsticks III Mouse Pad: Steelseries QCK Headphones: Superlux HD 668B

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oh, okay so whats a good bang for the buck full size ATX MB then and will a 600W power supply be enough to run the system

 

600W is ample, if its a standard locked i5 a b85 board is all you need, or a H97 board 

 

or you could get a K processor if you want to OC (not much point really) or you could look to get the new skylake CPUs

Desktop - Corsair 300r i7 4770k H100i MSI 780ti 16GB Vengeance Pro 2400mhz Crucial MX100 512gb Samsung Evo 250gb 2 TB WD Green, AOC Q2770PQU 1440p 27" monitor Laptop Clevo W110er - 11.6" 768p, i5 3230m, 650m GT 2gb, OCZ vertex 4 256gb,  4gb ram, Server: Fractal Define Mini, MSI Z78-G43, Intel G3220, 8GB Corsair Vengeance, 4x 3tb WD Reds in Raid 10, Phone Oppo Reno 10x 256gb , Camera Sony A7iii

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