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Running a modern GPU with an old CPU/motherboard? (sh.itjust.works)
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I have an Intel i7-4770 CPU (from 2013) and I don't think I have ever been CPU-bound so I would rather not spend money on upgrading it. However, I want to upgrade my graphics card to a Radeon RX 7600. My motherboard supports PCIE 3.0 which the RX 7600 is fine with.

Is there anything I should look out for? I'm worried that I'm missing something that will prevent me from running a 2023 video card on hardware ten years older than that.

(In case anyone is curious, my current video card is a GeForce GTX 960. It has been good enough for Diablo 2 Resurrected but I don't think it will be able to handle Baldur's Gate 3.)

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[–] pistachio@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago

If you do 1080p gaming you will be bottlenecked https://pc-builds.com/bottleneck-calculator/