R9 380 Bottleneck

[fordgust]

Hi All,


First of all I'm a total noob and this is my first attempt to build my own PC. I've been doing a lot of research but I don't think that's going to be enough.

I really, really want the R9 380 because I think it's worth the money and I don't think I would need to upgrade it in the near future(please correct me if this is wrong). My problem is, I can get an i5 4460/4590/4690 but I will have to sacrifice a few other things which I really want to get as well(example is a mechanical keyboard). So, I'm thinking of getting an i3 4160/4170 or fx 6300/8320e or athlon x4 860k. I want the i3's but I'm worried that it might not be enough for the R9 380.

Can you masters help me with this? Which one should I go with? This build is purely for gaming.

Thanks a lot!

 

[corndog1836]

i3 4170 will not bottleneck your r9 380.... i3 or i5 is the way to go..

You could always upgrade to i5 since both th i3 4170 and i5 4690 are lga 1150 and same mobo

 

[fordgust]

i3 4170 will not bottleneck your r9 380.... i3 or i5 is the way to go..

You could always upgrade to i5 since both th i3 4170 and i5 4690 are lga 1150 and same mobo

Thanks sir!

Is it true though that even though 4170 is a dual core, it has 2 extra logical cores which makes it a psuedo-quad core? Meaning, I won't have any problems running games that works only on quad cores?