i5 2300 bottleneck gtx 970?

[Konstantinos Koutse]

hello guys will my i5 2300 bottleneck a gtx 970 i dont care if its little i just dont want to have huge bottlenecks

 

[Chris Droste]

no; second gen i5 still passes most FX-series AMD and only incrementally slower than a 3rd or 4th gen. should be a sweet combo.

 

[Sergeant_Sneaky]

It will cause dips under 60 fps in certain games, like BF4 and GTA 5. I had a 970 and i5 2320.

 

[Chris Droste]

that's not really a bottleneck so much as those games using more CPU horsepower though. yeah a 3rd or 4th gen Core i5's increase in efficiency would help, but is it bottlenecking the video? nah.