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3 minutes ago, don_svetlio said:

Not really. It's old and slow by today's standards so it may end up bottlenecking the 480

It's not really that old and slow by today's standards. It is still quite a decent chip and can keep up with the gtx 970 in most titles (except gta v where there is about a 20-10% bottleneck in most cases). An rx 480 is pretty similar to the 970 in performance. I would recommend that op just gets the card and sees how it performs and if it bottlenecks badly. If it does upgrade to an i7 2600 or 3770. If not well keep the system as it is .

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Some i5 3570 maybe, can try to get used on ebay.

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i7 3770 should be possible with a bios update

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3 minutes ago, zehao39 said:

hi

I plan to get the rx480in the Aug. The only problem is my i5 2400 may bottleneck the gpu. Do you guys have any suggestions for new CPU for LGA 1155? By the way my chipset is h61. So no over locking. And I am okay buying used cpu

Your CPU is perfectly fine for pretty much any game.

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Just now, ryan27968 said:

Your CPU is perfectly fine for pretty much any game.

Not really. It's old and slow by today's standards so it may end up bottlenecking the 480

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3 minutes ago, don_svetlio said:

Not really. It's old and slow by today's standards so it may end up bottlenecking the 480

It's not really that old and slow by today's standards. It is still quite a decent chip and can keep up with the gtx 970 in most titles (except gta v where there is about a 20-10% bottleneck in most cases). An rx 480 is pretty similar to the 970 in performance. I would recommend that op just gets the card and sees how it performs and if it bottlenecks badly. If it does upgrade to an i7 2600 or 3770. If not well keep the system as it is .

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Just now, david cassar said:

It's not really that old and slow by today's standards. It is still quite a decent chip and can keep up with the gtx 970 in most titles (except gta v where there is about a 20-10% bottleneck in most cases). An rx 480 is pretty similar to the 970 in performance. I would recommend that op just gets the card and sees how it performs and if it bottlenecks badly. If it does upgrade to an i7 2600 or 3770. If not well keep the system as it is .

any idea if that chip bottleneck bf1?

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2 minutes ago, zehao39 said:

any idea if that chip bottleneck bf1?

The game hasn't had a full release yet but in closed alpha the i5 2400 is able to get about 70 fps with a 750 ti at 1080p medium or low settings. This is basically the only video showing how an i5 2400 runs the game at alpha. However the game should run better at release and the i5 should be fine.

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2 minutes ago, david cassar said:

The game hasn't had a full release yet but in closed alpha the i5 2400 is able to get about 70 fps with a 750 ti at 1080p medium or low settings. This is basically the only video showing how an i5 2400 runs the game at alpha. However the game should run better at release and the i5 should be fine.

While i5s are fine for the 480, I am worried about the low clocks of the 2400

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Celestial (Laptop 1) CPU:i7 4720HQ GPU:GTX 860M 4GB RAM:2x4GB SK Hynix DDR3Storage: 250GB 850 EVO Model:Lenovo Y50-70
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Just now, don_svetlio said:

While i5s are fine for the 480, I am worried about the low clocks of the 2400

It could be a problem but the i5 2400 is capable of turboing up to 3.4 ghz ( I know still not that high by today's standards). A lot of people have paired it up with 970's and there isn't really that much bottlenecking in most modern titles (witcher 3 and rise of the tomb raider all had 90-99% utilization on the 970). I'd personally say it would be fine. Between sandy bridge and haswell there is only about a 10-20% increase in performance so it isn't something too drastic. 

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Just now, ryan27968 said:

Clock speed is about as relevant to performance as wheel size is to top speed.

When comparing different architectures yes. When talking about an old platform clockspeed is important. A 2GHz Sandy i5 is much slower than a 3GHz Sandy i5

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