[SOLVED] will it bottleneck?

[STRIDER9]

MY PC SPECS :
Intel Pentium Dual Core E5700 3 Ghz
No GPU
4 GB 1333 Mhz DDR3 2X2GB
128 GB SSD

This is my old pc and want to upgrade to make it for retro and old games
So
My upgrades
Pentium E5700 > Core 2 duo E8500
And add GPU not expensive but GT 710 or 730
So my doubt is, will core 2 duo e8500 bottleneck GT 710.If not, then should i leave it or should tie core 2 duo e8500 with GT 730
Remember this is older pc dont want to upgrade heavily just to run old games or retro games.
I already have a gaming pc. So no suggestion for high end cpu or gpu
So
core 2 duo e8500 with gt 710
core 2 duo e8500 with gt 730
Will it bottleneck?
Which one out of these two pair will cause least bottleneck?
Which will give me better value?

 

[sizzling]

Even the very best gaming systems will bottleneck in certain circumstances and games.

What are the minimum and recommended requirements of the games you want to play.

 

[kanewolf]

MY PC SPECS :
Intel Pentium Dual Core E5700 3 Ghz
No GPU
4 GB 1333 Mhz DDR3 2X2GB
128 GB SSD

This is my old pc and want to upgrade to make it for retro and old games
So
My upgrades
Pentium E5700 > Core 2 duo E8500
And add GPU not expensive but GT 710 or 730
So my doubt is, will core 2 duo e8500 bottleneck GT 710.If not, then should i leave it or should tie core 2 duo e8500 with GT 730
Remember this is older pc dont want to upgrade heavily just to run old games or retro games.
I already have a gaming pc. So no suggestion for high end cpu or gpu
So
core 2 duo e8500 with gt 710
core 2 duo e8500 with gt 730
Will it bottleneck?
Which one out of these two pair will cause least bottleneck?
Which will give me better value?

EVERY system has a limitation. It might be CPU. It might be GPU. In your case 4GB RAM will be a limitation.
"Bottleneck" is a made up problem. With either a 710 or a 730 you will get some level of performance. It may use all the GPU or it might not. It will depend on the game, the resolution and the settings in the game. NONE of that is a bottleneck.

 

[STRIDER9]

Even the very best gaming systems will bottleneck in certain circumstances and games.

What are the minimum and recommended requirements of the games you want to play.

Games like Crysis,Doom 3
competive valorant

 

[geofelt]

There is no such thing as "bottlenecking"
If, by that, you mean that upgrading a cpu or graphics card can
somehow lower your performance or FPS.
A better term might be limiting factor.
That is where adding more cpu or gpu becomes increasingly
less effective.

What is the make/model of your motherboard?
Is the E8500 the strongest upgrade?

Try this simple test:
Run YOUR games, but lower your resolution and eye candy.
This makes the graphics card loaf a bit.
If your FPS increases, it indicates that your cpu is strong enough to drive a better graphics configuration.
If your FPS stays the same, you are likely more cpu limited.

If you think a cpu upgrade will help, consider that your E5700 has 2 threads and a single core passmark rating of 1173. The E8500 is 1319.
Older games tend to be single threaded.

If there is any fast action at all, any discrete graphics card will be a big boost.
Strange as it might seem, the GT730 64 bit is faster than the GT730 128 bit.

 

[sizzling]

Games like Crysis,Doom 3
competive valorant

Crysis and Doom 3 should be ok on either cpu but you won’t get competitive FPS in valorant

 

[USAFRet]

Which one out of these two pair will cause least bottleneck?

You don't want "the least bottleneck".
Rather, you want "the best performance".

 

[Aiden Lê]

It depends on what games you play. For example, my build is core i3-9xxx with gtx 1660 I had bottleneck in genshin Impact because it uses CPU more than GPU, but it didn't happen while playing FH4 because it optimized for GPU and CPU and it's less likely to bottleneck.

 

[InvalidError]

EVERY system has a limitation. It might be CPU. It might be GPU. In your case 4GB RAM will be a limitation.

And in just about every case, it will also vary depending on the game and even between scenes or levels within a single game.

 

[Eximo]

With legacy hardware, who cares. Buy the best components you can afford. If one or the other holds it back, just means less power consumption from one component. With limited or old power supplies this can be a good thing.

I've had better luck with older AMD GPUs and retro games, but that could just be down to some random chance. Maybe find old R5 and R7 cards.