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Which card for i3-2120?

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Friend is upgrading his build in order to play Overwatch at ultra settings. Right now, he has 6gb of ram, and an i3-2120. He'll be playing on a 144hz 1080p monitor and wants to get decent frames so somewhere in the 50+ fps. Which card would go well with this cpu? His budget right now is at $400 USD but may be more flexible. Thanks much

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how many watts is his psu?

CPU: I7 8086K                              MOBO: Gigabyte Z370 Aorus Gaming 5   RAM: 16Gb G-Skill 3200mHz

GPU: GTX 1070 FE 8GB            CASE: Phanteks Enthoo Evolv ATX           OS: Windows 10

PSU: EVGA 650G                      SSD: 250GB Samsung Evo                       HDD: 1000GB WD BLUE

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7 minutes ago, onemanarmy720 said:

how many watts is his psu?

I'm buying him a new psu according to what card he gets so don't count it in the budget

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okay, if he has $400 save up a little more and buy like an asus gtx 1070 when it comes out or if he is only doing over-watch, an RX480 should be fine.

CPU: I7 8086K                              MOBO: Gigabyte Z370 Aorus Gaming 5   RAM: 16Gb G-Skill 3200mHz

GPU: GTX 1070 FE 8GB            CASE: Phanteks Enthoo Evolv ATX           OS: Windows 10

PSU: EVGA 650G                      SSD: 250GB Samsung Evo                       HDD: 1000GB WD BLUE

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If the budget is flexible though, might as well spend about $470 and get a full system upgrade in a little over three weeks when the RX 480 launches:

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-6500 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($194.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Motherboard: MSI H110M PRO-D Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard  ($47.99 @ Amazon) 
Memory: Kingston 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory  ($26.99 @ SuperBiiz) 
Graphics Card: AMD RX 480 ($199.00)
Total: $468.97
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-06-06 18:27 EDT-0400

 

Early indications seem to suggest the RX 480 should have something around GTX 970/980 performance at $200. An i3-2120 isn't enough cpu to not bottleneck a card that powerful in virtually every other AAA game.

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If your friend is just looking for better FPS in overwatch, an RX 480 would probably work just fine with his i3 (it's not a very CPU intensive game).  But if he does have $400-$500 to spend, it should be on a new system with said card.

 

He could always buy the card first then the system for it.

Sometimes I get builder's itch

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