How would an R9 290 run on old pc.

[Burns101]

Hello guys!
how would a AMD Radeon R9 290 run on my ol' intel core i7 920 with 6gb of ram on a intel dx58so motherboard and 750w psu??

 

[Automaticman]

I think it would run fine. Depending on the game you may run into times where you are CPU limited by the slower clockspeed of the CPU, but for the most part I would think it would keep up just fine. Having the extra cores / hyperthreading might help with that on games that can use them.

Personally, I think any 4 core I series CPU is probably ok for most games these days.

 

[Deders]

I can say that running a 780 with my i5-750 doesn't cause bottlenecks, CPU and GPU usage will reach 99% in cases where the framerate isn't limited by Vsync, but then I have overclocked quite significantly.

 

[Denithor]

Exactly what Deders said, if you have a good OC on your 920 it should run like a champ with a 290 thrown in.

 

[wand3r3r]

OC the 920 if possible, even to 3+ GHz if you have a decent cooler.

CPU development has essentially been at a standstill, I would go for it especially with the cheap 290's out there.

 

[CropDuster]

It'll be fine. I was running an i7 950 @ 3.8ghz before I swapped it out for the X5650.

 

[yannigr]

It will run just fine. And even if it is a couple frames slower than with the latest super duper Haswell processor, you only pay for the card. Going for the full upgrade option when you don't really need to upgrade your motherboard and cpu, just for the fear that the cpu will be a bottleneck that will cost you 1%, 5%, 10% in performance, it is not a good idea.

 

[monkeydelmagico]

Power consumption would be the most compelling reason to upgrade the 920. Especially if the 920 is overclocked. Starts to draw alot of wattage at 3+ghz

 

[Azix]

Performance would be worth the card and it'll fit nicely with any future upgrade

The quality of the PSU might be some concern