Bottleneck or not?

[Davish]

Ok..here we go

 

About a year ago I wanted to get a new PC. Myself, knowing barely anything at the time, went with whatever Dell had on sale, but was still practical. Low and behold, i sit today with an i5 6400, 8 gb of ram and a good amount of Hard drive storage. But, there is one BIG problem. I have a GEFORCE GT (not gtx) 730. I just didnt know at the time. I saw the word Nvidia and I was like, "good, thats good, darrh"

 

So, onto my question. I'm in the running for a new GPU (obviously) and I was wondering if my i5 6400 would bottleneck a gtx 1060? If so, is it the same case for the rx 480?

 

P.S. I am also planning on getting a 450-550w psu to go with my new gpu. I think my current one has only 240w, WOW DELL

[_JohnB330ci]

Nahh, it wont bottleneck, but I'd go with a 550W PSU

[Electronics Wizardy]

No you won't bottleneck those gpus. The 450-500w is fine.

[suchamoneypit]

no way you will bottleneck, I would aim for a 550W PSU though.

[ARikozuM]

I would check what form factor the Dell uses for its PSU since they used to do proprietary PSU's. If it'll fit, 500-550W is what I would get in 80+ Bronze or Gold. Otherwise, no bottlenecking

[abhigyan001]

In my opinion a 450W PSU is fine. 1060 has a TDP of 120W 6400 has 65W. Add other parts and total comes up to lesser than 300W. I think you'll do fine with a 450W.

[abhigyan001]

If I am not wrong then you will be able to run on your 240W PSU too.

 

If you are going to get new PSU, go for whatever cheap you find (from a good brand) as I said 450W is just fine.

 

And No, 6400 won't bottleneck a 1060. Both are like the  best budget match.

[Mira Yurizaki]

To check for a bottleneck, because there's not enough data to say how much, run your games and monitor the total CPU usage. If you're running at nearly about 75%-80% or more all the time, you have a bottleneck.

 

Regarding the power supply, I run an i7-6700 with a GTX 980 and it pulls about 200W under load, so 450W is more than enough