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hey guys I've been on a super tight budget so I've built my system around second hand parts, bargains, part recalls with massive discounts and I'm not down my last two parts and I would really appreciate some opinions from people more in the know than me! 

 

I have he oppertunity to pick up a second hand GeForce GTX 760 4gb for a small fee for 100e 

my main concern is what skylake cpu I should put with it?

 

I'm kind of looking to push the boat out and buy the i5 6500. 

Or my other option is the faithful i3 6100

 

im mostly worried about bottle necking something and as its build on extremely tight budget because of unforeseen circumstances.

 

little side note I have the Asus gene viii motherboard which was open box new at a bargine so I do have room to clock to i3 a little bit.

 

 

Many thanks in advance,

adam.

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2 minutes ago, Sentic said:

hey guys I've been on a super tight budget so I've built my system around second hand parts, bargains, part recalls with massive discounts and I'm not down my last two parts and I would really appreciate some opinions from people more in the know than me! 

 

I have he oppertunity to pick up a second hand GeForce GTX 760 4gb for a small fee for 100e 

my main concern is what skylake cpu I should put with it?

 

I'm kind of looking to push the boat out and buy the i5 6500. 

Or my other option is the faithful i3 6100

 

im mostly worried about bottle necking something and as its build on extremely tight budget because of unforeseen circumstances.

 

little side note I have the Asus gene viii motherboard which was open box new at a bargine so I do have room to clock to i3 a little bit.

 

 

Many thanks in advance,

adam.

Either works.

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Or you can get the i5 6400 which is cheaper than the 6500

CPU: Intel Core i7-5820K | Motherboard: AsRock X99 Extreme4 | Graphics Card: Gigabyte GTX 1080 G1 Gaming | RAM: 16GB G.Skill Ripjaws4 2133MHz | Storage: 1 x Samsung 860 EVO 1TB | 1 x WD Green 2TB | 1 x WD Blue 500GB | PSU: Corsair RM750x | Case: Phanteks Enthoo Pro (White) | Cooling: Arctic Freezer i32

 

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Neither CPU will bottleneck a GTX 760. I have a Core i3 4160 running with a GTX 960 and I've never seen a CPU bottleneck- not even in The Witcher 3 in the middle of Novigrad with NPC density maxed out.

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