RX 480 paired with G4400?

[BennettWHU]

I'm currently running an Intel Pentium G4400 and I wanted to buy the new RX 480. If I do this, will the CPU cause me any significant problems or should I just spend the £200 on a better CPU?

 

[adam98150]

I take it this is a different build to the one in your signature? You might find the Pentium will hold you back in CPU intensive games (such as GTA).

What graphics card have you got at the minute?

 

[Jumper118]

i think you will be ok with the rx 480 for now but an i5 6400 would help and would be a good upgrade path

 

[BennettWHU]

I take it this is a different build to the one in your signature? You might find the Pentium will hold you back in CPU intensive games (such as GTA).

What graphics card have you got at the minute?

My signature is old. I've got an R7 260x.

 

[adam98150]

My signature is old. I've got an R7 260x.

Take jumpers advice and buy the 480 and then save for the i5. You'll see a huge performance gain coming from a 260x.

 

[BennettWHU]

i think you will be ok with the rx 480 for now but an i5 6400 would help and would be a good upgrade path

I don't know enough about CPU's to know if I'd need the 6400 or the 6500. What's with that 2.7GHz clock speed?

 

[Jumper118]

I don't know enough about CPU's to know if I'd need the 6400 or the 6500. What's with that 2.7GHz clock speed?

the 6400 will be fine you can overclock it to whatever speed you like anyway

 

[los]

the 6400 will be fine you can overclock it to whatever speed you like anyway

Does this not depend on what motherboard he has got?

 

[Jumper118]

Does this not depend on what motherboard he has got?

yes i suppose he does need a z170 board to do that.

 

[RavenXXX2]

the 6400 will be fine you can overclock it to whatever speed you like anyway

Intel shut that down did they not?

 

[Jumper118]

Intel shut that down did they not?

no

 

[RavenXXX2]

Do you still need a modded bios and are the issues like no power saving and no temps still there?

 

[pastymuncher]

Yes, still need the modded bios and still the same drawbacks which are way too many for me personally. I would always pay the extra for a k series cpu (wouldn't buy at the current prices though).

 

[Jumper118]

Do you still need a modded bios and are the issues like no power saving and no temps still there?

yes.