Hello,
It's been a while since I've looked into purchasing a CPU.
A friend of mine gave me his old GTX 650 2GB video card. I have a media center PC that I made from my old PC parts. I would like to use the new GTX 650 in it, but I think it could use a new CPU and motherboard - so that the video card isn't bottle-necked by the existing setup.
I currently have a Intel Pentium E5200 (overclocked to about 3.34 GHz).
Anyways, what would be the cheapest CPU I could buy that would pair well with my GTX 650? I want to get something good enough that my GTX 650 isn't bottlenecked. However cheap I can accomplish that is best.
I thought I probably should get a quad core... but is that necessary? Would a modern dual core with 4 threads suffice?
Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
It's been a while since I've looked into purchasing a CPU.
A friend of mine gave me his old GTX 650 2GB video card. I have a media center PC that I made from my old PC parts. I would like to use the new GTX 650 in it, but I think it could use a new CPU and motherboard - so that the video card isn't bottle-necked by the existing setup.
I currently have a Intel Pentium E5200 (overclocked to about 3.34 GHz).
Anyways, what would be the cheapest CPU I could buy that would pair well with my GTX 650? I want to get something good enough that my GTX 650 isn't bottlenecked. However cheap I can accomplish that is best.
I thought I probably should get a quad core... but is that necessary? Would a modern dual core with 4 threads suffice?
Thanks in advance for any suggestions.