Which Budget CPU would not bottleneck a GTX 660Ti?

[cody6750]

Hey, I recently got a 660ti from my uncle. Well since im a low income student, I was wondering which CPU will have enough power to not bottleneck the 660 ti, at a reasonable price. Under $100 dollars if possible. Thank you.

 

[koreanoverlord]

The AMD FX-6300 runs about $120 and will be plenty for you. However, are you planning on buying a motherboard?

 

[CTurbo]

My lil bro uses a i3 2120 with his 660ti and it does not bottleneck it @ 1080p.

The FX 6300 would be a considerable step up from that i3.

 

[CTurbo]

I think a AMD Athlon x4 750K/760K would be about the cheapest cpus that would not bottleneck a 660ti.

They are roughly similar in performance to an i3 2120 at stock speeds and they can be overclocked.

 

[cody6750]

Yea im planning on putting this machine piece by piece together. It's pretty sad, I have a Intel Pentium, also was curious if there are any cheap motherboards out there that would support the FX 6300. Thanks