an i5-2320 will bottleneck on an r9 390, just a little bit. Right now your 6850 trash card is holding back your cpu really badly though. Totally worth the buy, you'll get most of the performance the r9 390 has on tap, and it leaves room for an upgrade. Even considering your cpu, I can't think of something that will provide better performance per price than a 230$ r9 390, so go for it.
imagine if he had an i7-920 for example, sure its an i7 but pair it up with an r9 390 and you're going to have some serious bottlenecks.
you can't just read 'i5' and assume this, the i5-2320 is rather old. Totally a serviceable gaming chip this day and age, but paired with something like an r9 390 it's bound to throttle performance a bit.abraker wrote:
CPU shouldn't bottleneck the GPU in 99% of the cases especially since you run on an i5. As for the the PSU, usually 700w should be plenty enough.Kert wrote:
Thanks for the info guys, this is really helpful.
I noticed there are some extreme sales sometimes like R9 390 sold for around 230$. I'd totally buy this one instead for such price
Will my CPU bottleneck this one? Or my 700w psu?
imagine if he had an i7-920 for example, sure its an i7 but pair it up with an r9 390 and you're going to have some serious bottlenecks.