I have a friend who currently has a HP Pavilion p6-2143w desktop PC. He want to upgrade but only has about $300 to work with. Instead of buying a complete new PC, I brought up the idea that he could hold on to his CPU, MOBO, RAM, and HDD, and put that toward a new GPU, PSU, and case.
My question is: How big of a GPU can I get without a bottleneck? For example, would a R9 270X bottleneck the CPU? If so or not, what card would be about the limit? From this knowledge I could probably put the rest of the build together. He is going to be playing DayZ, ArmA II/III, and Rust. Thanks!
My question is: How big of a GPU can I get without a bottleneck? For example, would a R9 270X bottleneck the CPU? If so or not, what card would be about the limit? From this knowledge I could probably put the rest of the build together. He is going to be playing DayZ, ArmA II/III, and Rust. Thanks!