Slower CPU with faster GPU or faster CPU with slower GPU?

[AIJ]

Hey.

 

I got another pretty simple question again for a gaming PC.

 

I was wondering if it's more worthy for gaming to get an X4-860K with a R9 Fury instead of an i5 with a R9 390? Will I suffer from bottle-necking or anything else that might affect performance?

 

Thanks in advance for the answer!

 

[Forcebreaker]

 i5 with a R9 390

[BaileyFY]

I'd get any i5 4460 or better with the best gpu you can get with the left over budget

[Samfisher]

i5 setup no questions asked.  Changing a CPU can cause a lot of work, especially sometimes Windows un-activates itself, and everything else you do besides gaming depends on your CPU.

[AIJ]

Just now, Forcebreaker said:

 i5 with a R9 390

 

Just now, BaileyFY said:

I'd get any i5 4460 or better with the best gpu you can get with the left over budget

Just wondering, why would this be better from gaming than a fury with an x4 860k?

[AIJ]

1 minute ago, Samfisher said:

i5 setup no questions asked.  Changing a CPU can cause a lot of work, especially sometimes Windows un-activates itself, and everything else you do besides gaming depends on your CPU.

Thanks

[MegaDave91]

i5 + 390

[BaileyFY]

yes 

Just now, AIJ said:

 

Just wondering, why would this be better from gaming than a fury with an x4 860k?

Because that cpu would bottleneck significantly and would only increase with new gpu's 

[Vegetable]

Well a pc is only as fast as it's weakest link. There are other factors to consider aside from GPU and CPU but assuming you have an adequate PSU, RAM, and thermals wont be an issue, the i5/390 setup would stomp the FUCK out of an Athlon/Fury setup. This is because the i5 is just faster than the athlon considerably. In a CPU intensive game you will be severely disappointed with the Athlon/Fury rig in comparison to the i5/390 rig. In a game such a CS:GO it won't matter much as a Core 2 Duo and a Gtx 460 can max it out. So, YES, you will have a HEAVY bottleneck with a slow CPU and and a fast GPU in comparison to a fast CPU and a solid GPU. Hope I helped

[Morgan MLGman]

1 minute ago, Vegetable said:

Well a pc is only as fast as it's weakest link. There are other factors to consider aside from GPU and CPU but assuming you have an adequate PSU, RAM, and thermals wont be an issue, the i5/390 setup would stomp the FUCK out of an Athlon/Fury setup. This is because the i5 is just faster than the athlon considerably. In a CPU intensive game you will be severely disappointed with the Athlon/Fury rig in comparison to the i5/390 rig. In a game such a CS:GO it won't matter much as a Core 2 Duo and a Gtx 460 can max it out. So, YES, you will have a HEAVY bottleneck with a slow CPU and and a fast GPU in comparison to a fast CPU and a solid GPU. Hope I helped

Well, not necessarily. It would depend on a game. If you overclocked the X4 860K, and ran for example Tomb Raider (2013) benchmark on the 860k+fury setup then on the i5+390 setup the 390 setup would lose. But in general, yeah.

[Vegetable]

Just now, Morgan MLGman said:

Well, not necessarily. It would depend on a game. If you overclocked the X4 860K, and ran Tomb Raider (2013) benchmark on the 860k+fury setup then on the i5+390 setup the 390 setup would lose. But in general, yeah.

I suppose I did fail to mention minor exceptions such as that. I would say if a game isn't SUPER CPU reliant and does well with multiple cores then an Athlon would suffice.

[DocSwag]

i5, because the 860k is only meant for budget systems so it will HEAVILY bottleneck the fury like no tomorrow.

[Morgan MLGman]

2 minutes ago, Vegetable said:

I suppose I did fail to mention minor exceptions such as that. I would say if a game isn't SUPER CPU reliant and does well with multiple cores then an Athlon would suffice.

I ran Athlon X4 750k @4,5gHz + GTX 970 @1500/8000 for around a month, played The Witcher 3 with it, and I gotta say unless the location was heavily CPU bound, and there's not many like that in TW3, the Athlon worked relatively well but with my FX-8350 at the same clock speed since it's basically exactly two of those Athlons combined, it worked much smoother and never bottlenecked

[SeanAngelo]

18 minutes ago, AIJ said:

Hey.

 

I got another pretty simple question again for a gaming PC.

 

I was wondering if it's more worthy for gaming to get an X4-860K with a R9 Fury instead of an i5 with a R9 390? Will I suffer from bottle-necking or anything else that might affect performance?

 

Thanks in advance for the answer!

 

i5 with 390.

 

no bottlenecking.