Jump to content

Lowest bottleneck gpu upgrade

That13thGuy
By That13thGuy
in Troubleshooting
 Share
Posted

I want to have a better gpu, something with atleast 2gb of vram. My system isnt half bad (I hope), but pls do not say anything about the psu; I know it isn't ment for a gaming pc. It's hard to do research online on bottlenecking and maby you guys can help me find a good gpu. To summarize: What is the best gpu I can put into my system that won't be bottlenecked too much by my cpu and will mostly get the best out of what I have right now?

 

system specs:

cpu: i3-2130 (3.4GHz dual core w/ hyperthreading)

ram: Crucial balistix 8GB

gpu: XFX r7 260x 1GB (This is the thing I want to change ofc)

psu: cx430w

1TB HHD

 

Thanks in advance,

That13thGuy

01110101 01101100 01100100 00100000 01100100 01101111 00100000 01110011 01110101 01100011 01101000 00100000 01100001 00100000 01110100 01101000 01101001 01101110 01100111 00101110 00101110 00101110 00100000 01010111 01100101 01101100 01101100 00100000 01101000 01100101 01110010 01100101 00100000 01101000 01100001 01110110 01100101 00100000 01100001 00100000 01100010 01101001 01101110 01100001 01110010 01111001 00100000 01100011 01101111 01101111 01101011 01101001 01100101 00100001 

Link to comment
Share on other sites
Link to post
Share on other sites
Posted

R7 260X is the max for that dreadful i3 - Sandy i3s were utter crap.

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 Red
Celestial (Laptop 1) CPU:i7 4720HQ GPU:GTX 860M 4GB RAM:2x4GB SK Hynix DDR3Storage: 250GB 850 EVO Model:Lenovo Y50-70
Seraph (Laptop 2) CPU:i7 6700HQ GPU:GTX 970M 3GB RAM:2x8GB DDR4Storage: 256GB Samsung 951 + 1TB Toshiba HDD Model:Asus GL502VT
Windows 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
Link to post
Share on other sites
Posted

No, the GPU is not the thing you want to upgrade of course.

 

Th 260x isn't that bad, but that i3 IS.  I personally reccomend not spending money in PC Hardware now, so you can choose Pascal/Artic Islands in the future and jump to DDR4. 

AMD Waifu is the best Waifu

Link to comment
Share on other sites
Link to post
Share on other sites
Posted
  • Author

No, the GPU is not the thing you want to upgrade of course.

 

Th 260x isn't that bad, but that i3 IS.  I personally reccomend not spending money in PC Hardware now, so you can choose Pascal/Artic Islands in the future and jump to DDR4

with ofcourse i meant that i had allready said it in the beginning of my post. Thanks for this information though. What are pascal/artic islands? 

01110101 01101100 01100100 00100000 01100100 01101111 00100000 01110011 01110101 01100011 01101000 00100000 01100001 00100000 01110100 01101000 01101001 01101110 01100111 00101110 00101110 00101110 00100000 01010111 01100101 01101100 01101100 00100000 01101000 01100101 01110010 01100101 00100000 01101000 01100001 01110110 01100101 00100000 01100001 00100000 01100010 01101001 01101110 01100001 01110010 01111001 00100000 01100011 01101111 01101111 01101011 01101001 01100101 00100001 

Link to comment
Share on other sites
Link to post
Share on other sites
Posted

with ofcourse i meant that i had allready said it in the beginning of my post. Thanks for this information though. What are pascal/artic islands? 

 

Pascal/Artic Islands are the upcoming new microarchitectures of nVidia and AMD. In the AMD case, Artic Islands is a codename. They will be much more efficient, cooler and, well, newer. I wouldn't spend money in past "generation" components. 

 

 

Oh, and you will most probably need a better PSU.

AMD Waifu is the best Waifu

Link to comment
Share on other sites
Link to post
Share on other sites
Posted
  • Author

Pascal/Artic Islands are the upcoming new microarchitectures of nVidia and AMD. In the AMD case, Artic Islands is a codename. They will be much more efficient, cooler and, well, newer. I wouldn't spend money in past "generation" components. 

will these also be cheaper to manifacture? And will gpu's using this new technology come out in 2016?

01110101 01101100 01100100 00100000 01100100 01101111 00100000 01110011 01110101 01100011 01101000 00100000 01100001 00100000 01110100 01101000 01101001 01101110 01100111 00101110 00101110 00101110 00100000 01010111 01100101 01101100 01101100 00100000 01101000 01100101 01110010 01100101 00100000 01101000 01100001 01110110 01100101 00100000 01100001 00100000 01100010 01101001 01101110 01100001 01110010 01111001 00100000 01100011 01101111 01101111 01101011 01101001 01100101 00100001 

Link to comment
Share on other sites
Link to post
Share on other sites
Posted

will these also be cheaper to manifacture? And will gpu's using this new technology come out in 2016?

 

Yes, they are supposed to come out in 2016, and we don't really know anything about the prices, but do not expect them to be that much expensive. There will be different range models so you can buy a lower-end card if you can't afford the mid-end one

AMD Waifu is the best Waifu

Link to comment
Share on other sites
Link to post
Share on other sites
Posted
  • Author

Yes, they are supposed to come out in 2016, and we don't really know anything about the prices, but do not expect them to be that much expensive. There will be different range models so you can buy a lower-end card if you can't afford the mid-end one

Well thank you for your time sir. I will take your advice. I will probably safe up money to get a new pc instead op upgrading the one I have right now, I think it will be the better choice. Thanks again!

01110101 01101100 01100100 00100000 01100100 01101111 00100000 01110011 01110101 01100011 01101000 00100000 01100001 00100000 01110100 01101000 01101001 01101110 01100111 00101110 00101110 00101110 00100000 01010111 01100101 01101100 01101100 00100000 01101000 01100101 01110010 01100101 00100000 01101000 01100001 01110110 01100101 00100000 01100001 00100000 01100010 01101001 01101110 01100001 01110010 01111001 00100000 01100011 01101111 01101111 01101011 01101001 01100101 00100001 

Link to comment
Share on other sites
Link to post
Share on other sites
Posted

Well thank you for your time sir. I will take your advice. I will probably safe up money to get a new pc instead op upgrading the one I have right now, I think it will be the better choice. Thanks again!

 

You're welcome, feel free to ask me as much as you want!

AMD Waifu is the best Waifu

Link to comment
Share on other sites
Link to post
Share on other sites

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now
 Share
Go to topic listing Troubleshooting

×