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Originally Posted by Reeyal
Intel 3000 series chip was released back in 2012... That chip is quite old. However, technically on paper, it won't be a bottleneck unless you run modern games at the highest settings.
What some people misunderstand is that you also need CPU power, along with GPU power, to run modern games at decent quality. Also, check your motherboard. Around the same time when Intel 3000 series chip was released, PCIe 3.0 was becoming the new standard. If your MB doesn't support PCIe 3.0, you're bottlenecking the video card at the motherboard level
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last I checked, even the fastest card cannot saturate PCIe 2.0 x16 so one should run into CPU bottleneck way before this is even a concern
I would certainly give it a try...anything onwards from 2011 (Intel Sandy Bridge) are still very much relevant.