bottleneck GTX 960 bottleneck?

[King_Ian]

Hello,

 

I have a question: Will an i5 2400 bottleneck a GTX 960? 

[xDanielxOossiex]

Pretty sure it won't.

[King_Ian]

1 minute ago, xDanielxOossiex said:

Pretty sure it won't.

OK, thanks! 

[rjfaber91]

4 minutes ago, King_Ian said:

Hello,

 

I have a question: Will an i5 2400 bottleneck a GTX 960? 

It's always possible to engineer a situation in which any CPU will bottleneck any GPU, but in regular gaming loads on GPU-intensive games (which describes 90% of triple-A games, really), it's very unlikely to be a bottleneck. In CPU-intensive games there might be a slight bottleneck, but nothing I'd get worried about.

[King_Ian]

Just now, rjfaber91 said:

It's always possible to engineer a situation in which any CPU will bottleneck any GPU, but in regular gaming loads on GPU-intensive games (which describes 90% of triple-A games, really), it's very unlikely to be a bottleneck. In CPU-intensive games there might be a slight bottleneck, but nothing I'd get worried about.

Thanks, I have a RX 480 in my main PC now. I want to build a new PC out of second hand parts. Is the i5 2400 a good choice?
 

[rjfaber91]

6 minutes ago, King_Ian said:

Thanks, I have a RX 480 in my main PC now. I want to build a new PC out of second hand parts. Is the i5 2400 a good choice?
 

It's not good and it's not bad. At the time it was a very decent CPU, but that time is somewhat in the past, so I'm not sure if, in your shoes, I'd actually buy a 2400 if I didn't already own one, but you definitely can, and matching it with a 960 is perfectly fine.

 

Just to illustrate my point about already owning it vs. buying it second-hand; I very recently upgraded the CPU (and motherboard and RAM, but that's beside the point) in my main rig from a Phenom II X6 1055T to a Ryzen7 1800X. This means I've currently got an unused Phenom II laying around, and I do want to reuse it in another system. Would I currently go out on the second-hand market and buy a Phenom II off somebody though? Probably not...

[King_Ian]

1 minute ago, rjfaber91 said:

It's not good and it's not bad. At the time it was a very decent CPU, but that time is somewhat in the past, so I'm not sure if, in your shoes, I'd actually buy a 2400 if I didn't already own one, but you definitely can, and matching it with a 960 is perfectly fine.

 

Just to illustrate my point about already owning it vs. buying it second-hand; I very recently upgraded the CPU (and motherboard and RAM, but that's beside the point) in my main rig from a Phenom II X6 1055T to a Ryzen7 1800X. This means I've currently got an unused Phenom II laying around, and I do want to reuse it in another system. Would I currently go out on the second-hand market and buy a Phenom II off somebody though? Probably not...

But I can get this CPU in Holland for around 40 euros. That is not much. You can also overclock this CPU. It's a non ''K'' processor, but you can still OC it.

[rjfaber91]

15 minutes ago, King_Ian said:

But I can get this CPU in Holland for around 40 euros. That is not much. You can also overclock this CPU. It's a non ''K'' processor, but you can still OC it.

Ah, you're a fellow Dutchie!  

 

€40.- is indeed not much. The problem I have with buying second-hand hardware is that you don't know how it's been used by the previous owner, and of course this issue grows in significance linearly with the age of the hardware. Buying relatively new hardware second-hand is a lot safer than buying older hardware that way.

 

I'm not suggesting you shouldn't buy it, and especially at that price, it wouldn't even matter tremendously if it turned out to be a CPU that's been pushed way too hard by the previous owner(s) and is already in the process of dying, but I would advice you caution. That's all...

[King_Ian]

1 minute ago, rjfaber91 said:

Ah, you're a fellow Dutchie!  

 

€40.- is indeed not much. The problem I have with buying second-hand hardware is that you don't know how it's been used by the previous owner, and of course this issue grows in significance linearly with the age of the hardware. Buying relatively new hardware second-hand is a lot safer than buying older hardware that way.

 

I'm not suggesting you shouldn't buy it, and especially at that price, it wouldn't even matter tremendously if it turned out to be a CPU that's been pushed way too hard by the previous owner(s) and is already in the process of dying, but I would advice you caution. That's all...

Thanks for your advice, buddy!