Looking to upgrade my computer's graphics card, concerned about bottlenecking
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Hi
So here's my current computer's specs:
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I'm thinking of investing in a [url=http://www.amazon.co.uk/Asus-GeForce-560TI-DirectCUII-Graphics/dp/B004K8R8DA/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1318862047&sr=8-1]GTX 560Ti[/url], but I'm worried my CPU will cause the PC to bottleneck. For the record, I don't know much about bottlenecking, but a few people have told me that it probably will cause problems.
Upgrading my CPU will be more expensive, as to get something like an i5, I'd need to get a new motherboard too. I'm not sure if I'll be able to afford this, as my budget is about £200 (I live in the UK).
Is it worth getting a 560Ti, or shall I wait until I have enough money to upgrade my processor instead.
Cheers.
It will be bottlenecked, it wont cause problems, but you will be limited to how strong your cpu is.
You will get more of a preformance boost from buying a gpu, by far, you could get the 560ti and then upgrade as soon as you have money, the 560ti wont get overly outdated within a year or sod
The c2d will still only be too weak for merely a handful handful of games.
Thanks. Someone also mentioned I should upgrade my RAM to get dual-channel support or something like that. Any advice on that?
Well a 4gB DDR2 stick will go for more then a dual channel DDR3 setup, if you're looking into upgrading in the future, then you'd be throwing away about 40 bucks.
It will grant you a preformance boost, not all that massive within games, up to five or so frames per second.
I personally wouldn't do such a thing.
You can get an 8gB ddr3 dual channel setup for like 10 bucks less.
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