I have a i5-2400 and I was thinking of upgrading my GPU to a Gtx 1060 6gb. I was looking at the minimum spec of Withcer 3 and it calls for an i5-2500k. 

Since I dont meet the CPU minimum, I was wondering what the shortcomings of that might be (with the 1060 installed)?

Thanks

You want a short answer? Lag. Like really laggy probably.

Any software requires CPU to do computation, game softwares are no exceptions. They just need extra thing, the GPU to do graphic rendering. Since you have gtx 1060, there will be no bottleneck for rendering part but your CPU is probably not able to calculate stuff as fast as the game required. As a end point user, what you will see is lag.

Ok, thanks

Neh, your cpu should be more than good enough to play the witcher 3. Most just use the i5 2500k that one is a very popular cpu part. So the witcher 3 should run fine on your computer with the 1060. There might be some slow downs here and there at times though. 

As you can see there, your i5 performs just fine. Not quite 60 fps but more than playable. Just turn down some cpu intensive settings and you will hit that 60 fps.

Awesome, thanks

A Core i5-2400 is faster than a FX-6300 right? And I run the game very good.

SolidSnack, out of curiousoty, what GPU do you have now?

the i5-2400 is better then the PS4, Xbox one or rumoured scorpio CPU lol, it will run the game just fine, more then fine actually.

I have a i5-2500 and play the game on good settings, full hd, 60fps with no problems on my 780GTX (which I think is quite simulair in performance to the 1060GTX)

Its nice to hear my CPU is still ok for 1080p gaming

the 1060 is very close and equal at times to the gtx 980, according to DF and some other sites

and it only requires a 400w PSU, part of the reason I like this card is I don't have to upgrade anything else

Asus 650ti boost 2gb, it did its job admirably for quite awhile, but its time to upgrade