Will an i5 4440 bottleneck an R9 290X

[Bennet John]

Will an i5 4440 bottleneck an R9 290x

 

[Eduello]

Not in most games.

 

[Eduello]

Not in most games.

 

[Bennet John]

thanks

 

[Eduello]

Happy to help

 

[Alex Kelly]

Nope, it'll be just fine.
Only in very CPU intensive games like CS:GO or Crysis 3 will it make any difference to buy a better CPU.

 

[K6-II]

All recent games are using 4 cores so this chip would work fine paired with an R9 290x and at least 8gb of memory, no bottlenecks

 

[logainofhades]

All recent games are using 4 cores so this chip would work fine paired with an R9 290x and at least 8gb of memory, no bottlenecks

Crysis 3 and BF4 in 64 man campaign node would benefit from i7, but even then, I would buy a Xeon 1231v3 instead.

 

[Bennet John]

if i dont want bottleneck what cpu should i upgrade

 

[Alex Kelly]

It'll be just fine to be honest, but an overclocked i5 4690K will do even better.

 

[Bennet John]

ok thank

 

[Alex Kelly]

All good!