i3 bottlenecking?

kevior

kevior

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Hey, Im thinking of some parts for my friends pc and he wants a very low budget gaming pc. I was thinking an i3 processor with a 6700/6800 series card. Will there be a bottleneck problem and any suggestions for a very cheap rig would be very helpful. Thanks in advance. If needs be an AMD solution would also be possible.
 
For a budget system, an i3 is just fine mate.
Incidentally, what's the budget, and is there anything your friend already has? - an OS, a hard drive etc.
 
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i used to have an i3 2100 with my 6850 and i didnt see a massive FPS gain in bf3 when i got my 2500k so i would say itll be fine :) if it was something like a 7970/680 or 690 then i would say an i3 would definately bottleneck it. a 6700 or 6800 card will be fine though mate :)
 
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Working on the fact that hopefully your friend has a storage drive lying around somewhere.
That's about as good as you're going to get, for a budget build. Or at least, as good as I can do :)
 
Josh Weston said:
For a budget system, an i3 is just fine mate.
Incidentally, what's the budget, and is there anything your friend already has? - an OS, a hard drive etc.
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The budget is £550. And has nothing to start with, although he really likes the look of the Zalman Z11 Plus so please include that in the budget (It's about £50).

Thanks

Kev
 
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If there's anything else he needs to factor in, he can modify that list of components.
Teaching a man to fish is better than giving a man fish, and all that lark.
 
Josh Weston said:
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If there's anything else he needs to factor in, he can modify that list of components.
Teaching a man to fish is better than giving a man fish, and all that lark.
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Ignoring the fact that you put two Chassis ;) It's a very nice build, similar to what i suggested but i suggested a 500GB Seagate drive and a Corsair GS600 PSU.
 
Hmm, 7770. I'm not a fan of the 77x0 series much to be honest. I think that you would be better off buying a 3570k and running games off the iGPU (HD4000) until you can save up for something better.

Alternatively I'd be looking on ebay to get the best secondhand GPU i could find. You could definitely get a GTX560 for £100 and the 570s are getting down to that price too nowadays.
 
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Hmm, 7770. I'm not a fan of the 77x0 series much to be honest. I think that you would be better off buying a 3570k and running games off the iGPU (HD4000) until you can save up for something better.

Alternatively I'd be looking on ebay to get the best secondhand GPU i could find. You could definitely get a GTX560 for £100 and the 570s are getting down to that price too nowadays.
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its not going to be a full on gaming pc like skyrim and BF3 ultimate settings and stuff, just a decent gaming card for high-ish settings on 1x1080p monitor.
 
I was just trying to fit into the budget as much as possible xD
If you remove my error with the case you could have either a GTX560 or a Radeon 5870 - both pretty comparable.
Or, as Master and Puppet has said, you could get him a good gaming CPU and wait for him to have the money to pair it with a good GPU.
I'm using the iGraphics of my 3770k right now - I just came off playing a game with it. It can play low-intensity games really quite well. Just don't try Crysis.
 
Minecraft atm apart from that none at the moment but he's talking about getting battlefield 3. He plays, assassins creed, skyrim and other games like that one the xbox though, wouldn't surprise me if he got them on pc too.
 
I'd say go with the 560. It will be able to play whatever your friend throws at it. If he wants to play it in super high quality (BF3) then he can prepare to extend his budget accordingly. Even the 7750 is better than the xbox by an order of magnitude. A 560 would make him feel like it was Christmas every day :)
 
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