Will a 7950 be bottlenecked if I use a i3 550?

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I really want to know.

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Yes, you can help by overclocking it to 4Ghz shouldn't bottleneck it too much at that point but its still a first gen i3

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Will it really hurt my performance?

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well it shouldn't as long as you can OC to 4Ghz, should be able to do that on a 20$ gaia heatsink from xigmatek

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Alright thanks for the help!

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I just looked into it a bit more and you can probably hit 4.5Ghz, so try to aim for that