How to tell if your CPU will bottleneck your GPU or vice-versa?

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AustnW

AustnW

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I was wondering if there was a way to tell if your CPU will bottleneck your GPU or vice-versa. I have an i5-3570k and 7870 GHz edition that I just got. How would I be able to tell which one, if any, would bottleneck the other. I want to overclock them, but am not sure if overclocking both would be useless or not. Is there any way you can balance them? I don't want to overclock too much if it won't yield a big performance increase. I am wondering about this in general as well, not just with my CPU/GPU combo.

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AustnW

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Ha, I guess that's one way. I was wondering if there was any way to tell just by looking at the specs?
 
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porze13

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so my cpu useage in is the 90's% and my gpu is in the 40's% would that mean my cpu is bottlenecking my gpu?
 
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porze13

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lol sorry, guess i should of tell you my specs.
CPU: Athlon x4 640
GPU: HIS 7970
RAM: 4gb 1600mhz

say if i get a fx 8320 will i be able to use all of the 7970 to its full potential on bf3?
 
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AverageAdversary

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The OP is the one with the Core i5; the AMD owner is another person.
 
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