E8500 intel with GTX 260

[slick2004]

is this a good match, i want to avaoid a bottleneck

 

[Extelleron]

An E8500 will be more than enough for any GPU. Especially considering it will overclock very well to ~4GHz. Even if it were a bottleneck, there really isn't anything faster other than the quad cores, which will not help you out in games today.

 

[OCGuy]

Sounds like a nice setup, especially with the recent price drops on the E8500.

 

[error8]

A perfect match, especially if you overclock the cpu.

 

[DSF]

Slick, it's not necessary to start a new thread for each of your questions. One thread in General Hardware would get all your questions answered with a lot less running around for all of us.