My friend has an AMD A8-5500 3.2 GHz Quad Core 4MB L2Cache APU and it seems that with his GTX 760 it is "bottlenecking"
Would putting a Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 3.00GHz 6MB L2Cache CPU make any difference in terms or is it alright to do this for a week or so until he gets his i5-4690K?
The E8400 is significantly less powerful than the A8-5500; if anything, your bottlenecking problem would only become more pronounced.
Bottlenecking only affects waiting processes, swapping the CPU won't have a positive effect.
[QUOTE=Prismatex;47152814]The E8400 is significantly less powerful than the A8-5500; if anything, your bottlenecking problem would only become more pronounced.[/QUOTE]
That's what I figured, just didn't know how big of a deal it would be to have the intel one in a build for a week.
Will the 760 bottleneck with a Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600? This build will be together for a week then I will throw the quad into a low end machine.
Probably, but it isn't much of a problem really. You just get less performance that the graphics card should in resource intensive programs.
I had to run a Q6600 with my GTX 680 for a while, and it still produced acceptable performance.
[QUOTE=Grizzly2k13;47152778]My friend has an AMD A8-5500 3.2 GHz Quad Core 4MB L2Cache APU and it seems that with his GTX 760 it is "bottlenecking"
Would putting a Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 3.00GHz 6MB L2Cache CPU make any difference in terms or is it alright to do this for a week or so until he gets his i5-4690K?[/QUOTE]
[B]Bottleneck explained:[/B]
Planetside 2, Battylefield 4 and GTA IV are really CPU intensive games. If you have a good GPU but a bad CPU in one of these games. You will see that changing the graphics settings from High to low will not do anything to your FPS. However, even with a bad CPU your GPU will still allow you to max out the game graphics wise without a performance hit.
If you have a good CPU or are playing less CPU intensive games, you usually see that changing the graphics settings has a significant impact on the FPS.
In your situation: No an E8500 or Q6600 will not net you good performance in games like Battlefield 4, Planetside 2 or GTA IV. Also it will not fit in the motherboard holding the A8 anyway.
The current sweetspot gaming CPU is the Intel 4690K and a Z97 motherboard. What is your friend buying exactly? As in Full spec list once hes done upgrading?
My friend is giving me his asus motherboard and an AMD A8-5500 which I am going to put into my case (that originally came with those parts) and put my R7 260X in it.
I currently have an E8400 and the R7 260X in a build right now, while he has a A8-5500 and a GTX 760 in his build.
It seems like both of us have poorly optimized parts however I ordered him a new motherboard and CPU cooler. Now we play the waiting game while we wait to order the i5-4690K.
And yes I realize he would have to switch to my old motherboard to use the E8400 but we are just going to wait until the new parts arrive.
[QUOTE=Satane;47157417]There's barely a difference between 2600k and a 4770k for gaming. The sweet spot is anywhere between the two, depending on the deal you can get.[/QUOTE]
What are you on about?
First the 2600K is 140$ more expensive while also being slighty worse at games compared to the 4690K.
Secondly its older and cannot use all the new features introduced with the z87 and z97 chipsets because its a 1155 socket.
4690K currenty is the sweetspot. It is the best deal for a 800-1500$ machine. Just like the 4670K before it, and the 3750K, 2500K etc etc.
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