Does the intel pentium g3258 bottleneck the gtx 970

[Noobbuilder21]

hello I would like to buy the g3258 due to many people saying it is a great budget cpu from intel. I also want to buy the EVGA GTX 970 SSC Edition . Does the Pentium g3258 bottleneck the gtx 970? I can overclock it to 4.5ghz with a Cooler Master Hyper TX3 EVO Cooler. Any help appreciated. Also I would be happy to have recommendations of other intel cpu's in that price range with the socket lga 1150. Thanx 😀

 

[jeffredo]

Yes, it will to an extent in some games. I have a G3258 @ 4.5 Ghz paired with a GTX 960 2GB and its pretty well balanced. Recently I took the GTX 780 (slower than a GTX 970) out of my main PC and tried it in the G3258 PC. It worked fine and was a little better than the GTX 960, but in a CPU heavy game like Skyrim I got about 6-9 FPS less than I did with the i5-4690k in a couple of spots in the game with lots of NPCs (Markarth and Riften). Basically, the GTX 970 will be fine with a G3258 overclocked, but you won't get all the performance out of it. As far as other Intel socket 1150 CPUs for $65-$70 that are as good as the Pentium? Well, there aren't any. That's the whole point of the G3258 when overclocked.

 

[sizzling]

Yes, greatly. Modern games are now using and needing 3 - 4 threads to run at high to ultra settings. Now this does depend on the game but even less CPU intensive games I expect some bottleneck.

A 4440 or 4460 non overclockable i5's would be much better, can use a cheaper motherboard and perfectly fine on stock cooling. Because of this shouldn't work out much more but will be a far better match for a 970