E8200 gaming bottleneck

[benwoodcock]

Anyone any idea how much a 7850 will be bottlenecked with an e8200 at stock 2.66 and at say 3.8ghz? I''ll be playing at 1152p which is close to 1080p. I won't be playing the latest games, say no crysis 3 or bf3 or later very demanding games? I'm hoping to wait for the eight series and haswell, maybe even broadwell in 2014 before a big upgrade?

 

[opethdisciple]

What card do you currently have?

Games will play fine with an E8200 and a 7850, but the E8200 will hold back the true otential of the 7850 in games where it can stretch it's legs, meaning was it worth the upgrade in the first place.

 

[Wucked]

At 3.8 Ghz on older games you'll be ok, but you'll need to upgrade at some point to get the full potential of that graphics card.

 

[benwoodcock]

I don't have a card atm. I've been using a nettop with integrated gpu since my psu blew up taking the rest of my pc with it in 2010 or so, hence my having a backlog of old games to play.

However the 7850 I was prepared to buy today is now all cleared out and they won't get any more so I guess I'll be waiting for the AMD8000/nV700 series and teh ndeciding whether to upgrade to haswell or pick up a 87xx or equivalent, unless the prices of preowned 5xxx and 6xxx and their equivalents drop.

 

[Yamahahahahaha]

It will definitely be bottlenecked. I went from a Q6600 to an i3 2120 to an i7 3770K and saw increases in speed with each step.

 

[benwoodcock]

Just seen a 7870xt/tahiti le with games for £180, would've gone for it I had a more modern cpu, and more money.

Thanks everyone.

 

[linktoinsanity]

Remember you can either buy a new or 2nd hand 7850 (or better) now and then transfer it into your new setup when you upgrade, even if it is bottlenecked, it will still be a capable system.

 

[ishoeyi]

I currently have a 7950 with a q8400

and my 7950 is laughing at the q8400

so I think the answer is yes its bottlenecking, how much, don't know.