i5-3350p bottlenecking future Nvidia GTX 980ti

[SirDrannik]

Hello

I have a question. I got this i5-3350p from a friend, and I'm wondering if it will bottleneck a future GTX 980ti or the future AMD flagship. Because I will have to buy a motherboard for it, it will end up cheaper for me to use it instead of getting the latest Haswell refresh. I have no interest in OC.

And another question to the experts.

Is it possible to convert a Hard Drive from GPT to MBR without data loss?

I appreciate the help.

Cheers!

 

[i7Baby]

" I got this i5-3350p from a friend, and I'm wondering if it will bottleneck a future GTX 980ti or the future AMD flagship" - yes unless you use it for games that you could play with a R7 270X

"Is it possible to convert a Hard Drive from GPT to MBR without data loss? " - Yes. See http://www.disk-partition.com/gpt-mbr/convert-mbr-to-gpt-without-data-loss.html

 

[rhysiam]

I got this i5-3350p from a friend, and I'm wondering if it will bottleneck a future GTX 980ti or the future AMD flagship" - yes unless you use it for games that you could play with a R7 270X

Are you sure? I'm not at all convinced of that. It's a pretty capable processor. The "P" series means it doesn't have the integrated graphics. It's basically a i5 3450 without integrated graphics and with 200mhz lower turbo-boost. Base clocks are the same. It's still a modern Intel Quad core CPU, which I think is perfectly capable for any single-card config. There will be some intensive CPU games which will be held back a little. But I'd suggest it's still better than any AMD CPU for gaming. It will come within 25% of a i5-4690 in all benchmarks... that's still a very solid CPU IMHO.

 

[yeskay]

Hello

I have a question. I got this i5-3350p from a friend, and I'm wondering if it will bottleneck a future GTX 980ti or the future AMD flagship. Because I will have to buy a motherboard for it, it will end up cheaper for me to use it instead of getting the latest Haswell refresh. I have no interest in OC.

And another question to the experts.

Is it possible to convert a Hard Drive from GPT to MBR without data loss?

I appreciate the help.

Cheers!

Your i5 3350p is still at pretty capable processor, with 4 stronger cores at reasonably impressive base frequency of 3.10 GHz. The processor would do fine with GTX 980 Ti.

With regard to "convert a Hard Drive from GPT to MBR without data loss? ". Use this for smoother transition, one of the best free tools around "Mini Tool Partition Wizard":

Download here.

Watch the Tutorial here- "Convert GPT disk to MBR disk | MiniTool Partition Wizard Official Video Guide"

Read the official text based tutorial aided with easy to follow screenshots here

Say your money and get Intel's "Skylake" processors (Successor of Haswell/Haswell Refresh/Broadwell Processors) based on 14nm tech, with new LGA 1151 Socket, along with a nice 100 series LGA 1151 supporting motherboards, coming Q3 2015.

Cheers!