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TheMilkshakeGamer

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Oct 24, 2016
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Hello there.
I am buying a new Gaming PC from PCcasegear and the build I was going to buy has been removed.
The only thing I can get for the same price is this:
CPU: Intel Core i3 6100
Motherboard: MSI B150M Bazooka Motherboard
Graphics: XFX Radeon RX 480 GTR OC 8GB
Memory: Kingston HyperX Fury HX424C15FBK2/8 8GB (2x4GB) DDR4 Black
Solid State Drive: Kingston SSDNow UV400 240GB SSD
Hard Drive: Seagate Barracuda 2TB ST2000DM006
Case: Aerocool XPredator Cube Mini Tower White
Power Supply: Be Quiet! Pure Power 9 500W Power Supply
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Home USB Flash Drive
The only difference between this and my last system is that this one has an i3 6100 and 8GB of RAM on its graphics card, whereas the last one had an i5 6500 and 4GB of Graphics card space.
All I want to know is if the downgraded CPU will be a bottleneck on the system. I would like to play games like the witcher 3 and overwatch at ultra settings at 60 FPS, so will this achieve that, or will the CPU be a bottleneck?
Thank you for any answers you can give.
 
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An i5 would generally do better with witcher 3, i3's tend to suffer a bit more from fps drops and lower min fps. The i3 should be able to get 60fps on overwatch unless maybe there's an intense battle with a lot of people. It's hard to benchmark online multiplayer games since it's always changing and situations may be different. i5's tend to do better on overwatch also.

Be sure to read the articles beyond just the pages linked. There are other reviews/benchmarks, these are just a couple.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2015-intel-core-i3-6100-review
http://www.techspot.com/review/1180-overwatch-benchmarks/page5.html

Hard to say on the video card without knowing what the 4gb gpu was, vram is only part of the picture...
An i5 would generally do better with witcher 3, i3's tend to suffer a bit more from fps drops and lower min fps. The i3 should be able to get 60fps on overwatch unless maybe there's an intense battle with a lot of people. It's hard to benchmark online multiplayer games since it's always changing and situations may be different. i5's tend to do better on overwatch also.

Be sure to read the articles beyond just the pages linked. There are other reviews/benchmarks, these are just a couple.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2015-intel-core-i3-6100-review
http://www.techspot.com/review/1180-overwatch-benchmarks/page5.html

Hard to say on the video card without knowing what the 4gb gpu was, vram is only part of the picture. It might be worth looking at the cost of the systems you're considering, figuring what your budget is and then considering putting a system together yourself from individual parts. You might find you can build a system just as good or better.
 
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