NEED CPU HELP

[eddy22m]

i want to ask your opinion on upgrading my pc for gameing i have MSI Military class II H67MA-E45 mainboard,,intel core i5 2400 3.10Ghz Socket LGA1155 Processor.8gb ram,500w (PSU) cooler master and the last 1 is MSI N560gtx-ti hawk 1 GB GDDR5 graphics card ....I DONT OVERCLOCK MY PC COZ I DONT KNOW....JUST LEAVE IT LIKE IT WAS COZ IM NOOB...

and im going to upgrade this crapy pc to a batter 1 so please help me if im doing it wrong or the new upgrade is not the requirment for my upgrade please let me know..

MSI AMD Radeon R9 390 Gaming 8GB GDDR5 - gpu
evga supernova nex750 B 750w - psu

 

ok but same1 said in the forums that the Games like GTA:V, Fallout 4 and few others Nvidia titles that weirdly CPU/drawcalls intensive need beefier CPU to feed the 390 properly. i5-2400 is a little weak for R9-390.....  it could bottleneck pretty significantly in some CPU bound games  ..... It won't crash but you will not get smooth gaming experience when that happen.....

any opinion on my CPU shot i upgrade to?if so, what is batter and support LGA 1155 socket with my H67MA-E45 mainboard...so that i dont need to upgrade the hole thing,,as in the mainboard and CPU...any idia what CPU can i buy so i dont get bottleneck after i upgrade GPU?
 

[Wander Away]

There would be a slight bottleneck, but I don't think there would be too much of a drawback on the CPU. 

As for the CPU, nothing on the LGA 1155 platform would be a significant upgrade, so I would just stick to the 2400 for now, as it should be sufficient for modern games. 

[eddy22m]

slight bottleneck ment after i upgrade GPU to  MSI AMD Radeon R9 390 Gaming 8GB GDDR5 it will be more than batter setting than my old MSI N560gtx-ti hawk 1 GB GDDR5 graphics card in,,,but slightly bottleneck at mybe high or median setting?  

[eddy22m]

mybe i shot try it first and see how it go...but the old card wont be the same graphics view as the new card is it?

 

[HKZeroFive]

It'll bottleneck but it won't be severe. I'd say go ahead with the R9 390.

 

Only gripe I have is the PSU. The NEX series aren't good. Try to get a SeaSonic or XFX 600W PSU, or better yet, the EVGA GQ/G2 series.

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3 hours ago, eddy22m said:

ok but same1 said in the forums that the Games like GTA:V, Fallout 4 and few others Nvidia titles that weirdly CPU/drawcalls intensive need beefier CPU to feed the 390 properly. i5-2400 is a little weak for R9-390.....  it could bottleneck pretty significantly in some CPU bound games  ..... It won't crash but you will not get smooth gaming experience when that happen.....

any opinion on my CPU shot i upgrade to?if so, what is batter and support LGA 1155 socket with my H67MA-E45 mainboard...so that i dont need to upgrade the hole thing,,as in the mainboard and CPU...any idia what CPU can i buy so i dont get bottleneck after i upgrade GPU?
 

For those games, actually the i5-2400 is getting long in the tooth, Fallout 4 and GTA V do want CPU power, at least at specific points...

 

I have a i5-2310 that my kids play with, and I do notice the difference on it compared to the newer CPUs for those types of games.

 

However, there really isn't anything you can do other than replace the motherboard/CPU combo.  Nothing will go into that motherboard that is worth bothering with.

 

My suggestion, if money is an issue:

 

ASUS H170 D3 motherboard, it takes DDR3 so you should be able to keep your existing RAM

Intel i5-6500 CPU

 

Total price - $300

 

In those two games, you should notice a decent performance upgrade over your existing Sandy Bridge chip.  It won't be earth shattering, but it will be there.

 

If you want Earth Shattering...

 

ASUS Z170-A

Corsair Vengence 16GB DDR4-3000

Intel i5-6500

Corsair H60 liquid cooling

 

Run the automatic overclocking on the motherboard, you just have to give it some time to run, but otherwise, you don't have to do a thing.  You should get to at least 4.3 GHz, if not 4.5GHz without anything fancy.

 

Cost is higher, $550 vs $300 from above, but 25% faster overall than the i5-6500 if you overclock.

 

Or keep what you have and give it a try, it isn't THAT bad.