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<blockquote data-quote="JasonJones" data-source="post: 3340169" data-attributes="member: 820658">First off my&nbsp; specs:Ram: 2 x 2gb ddr2 Current GPU: EVGA 9800gtCPU: e8400 dual core processorResolution: 1400x900 (vga cable)So I&#039;ll start off by saying, I am a newbie with computers, and all the knowledge I have about computer is purely from the past 3 weeks of googling stuff, and stuff I picked up from friends. Alright, so a few weeks back my GPU died, but it&#039;s an old computer so I wasn&#039;t really surprised.&nbsp;I was looking at GPU&#039;s on newegg and I found the best I can get for my price range is a Radeon 7790 (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127726 )I realize that my cpu will definitely bottleneck that card, but I&#039;m curious of the effects it will have in games. For example, let&#039;s say I play GTA 4, which is from what I hear, a CPU intensive game. Will I just have considerably lower frames, or will textures not load in properly? Also if I were to play with a CPU such as an AMD Athlon X4 750K Trinity Quad-Core and get 60 FPS at certain settings, what FPS would I get on the same settings but with the dual core CPU?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="JasonJones, post: 3340169, member: 820658"] First off my specs: Ram: 2 x 2gb ddr2 Current GPU: EVGA 9800gt CPU: e8400 dual core processor Resolution: 1400x900 (vga cable) So I'll start off by saying, I am a newbie with computers, and all the knowledge I have about computer is purely from the past 3 weeks of googling stuff, and stuff I picked up from friends. Alright, so a few weeks back my GPU died, but it's an old computer so I wasn't really surprised. I was looking at GPU's on newegg and I found the best I can get for my price range is a Radeon 7790 (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127726 ) I realize that my cpu will definitely bottleneck that card, but I'm curious of the effects it will have in games. For example, let's say I play GTA 4, which is from what I hear, a CPU intensive game. Will I just have considerably lower frames, or will textures not load in properly? Also if I were to play with a CPU such as an AMD Athlon X4 750K Trinity Quad-Core and get 60 FPS at certain settings, what FPS would I get on the same settings but with the dual core CPU? [/QUOTE]

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