Will FX-6300 Bottleneck?

Gam3Pwn3rz · Nov 18, 2013

I am coming here to figure out if the FX-6300 will bottleneck a gtx 760 SLI configuration. Someone told me a while back that the 6300 would bottleneck the 760 but I am wanting some feedback from more people. If the 6300 does bottleneck the 760 then I will just upgrade it to the FX-8350.

Azrael47 · Nov 18, 2013

In short ... yes ... unless you seriously overclock.

Dark Lord of Tech · Nov 18, 2013

An 8350 is a better match for 760's.

Gam3Pwn3rz · Nov 18, 2013

Thanks for the replies! I was pretty much focused on the 8350 but I wanted to make sure that I wasn't wasting money.

Azrael47 · Nov 18, 2013

nope, it is not wasting money, take a look at this thread> http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/answers/id-1788617/8350-bottleneck-sli-gtx-760.html

guggi4 · Nov 18, 2013

Sell your fx6300 and buy a fx8320 and overclock it yourself. Enjoy.

Krazeee · Nov 18, 2013

It will bottleneck, A 8350 will also slightly bottleneck. Which is why you overclock it... Or pickup an i5-3570k

Azrael47 · Nov 18, 2013

Krazeee :

not necessary. HE might not want to spend any extra on a CPU and a motherboard which will not improve performance by a large margin.

Krazeee · Nov 18, 2013

Azrael47 :

Whhooops, I didn't really read carefully... Forgot about the motherboard part. Blahhh

Outlander_04 · Nov 18, 2013

Here
http://www.techspot.com/review/734-battlefield-4-benchmarks/page6.html
in the cpu benchmarks you can see an FX 6350 at 3.9 GHz does not bottleneck a Titan

Its easy to get an FX 6300 to 4.2 HZ . Most will do more with a decent cooler .

There is no reason to think GTX 760's will be bottlenecked by an AMD hexcore

Gam3Pwn3rz · Nov 18, 2013

Just adding, I have not bought any of these parts! I am still making a build up.

Krazeee · Nov 19, 2013

Gam3Pwn3rz :

Oh! In that case it's totally different.

The FX-6300 will still bottleneck GTX 760's in SLI.

You can go for an FX-8350 if you want to go on the AMD side but if you want the best performance I would reccomend going with an Intel i5 build with a hyper 212 evo cooler so you can overclock. That will definately eliminate the bottleneck.

Outlander_04 · Nov 19, 2013

FX 6300 will NOT bottleneck a pair of GTX 760's at 1080p + resolutions.

It wont bottleneck a titan

Azrael47 · Nov 20, 2013

yep, if playing at 1920x1080 a bottleneck will be hard to see. Obviously if he then decides to get a larger sized monitor with a higher native resolution with the specs that he has now, he will see continuous signs of bottlenecking.

guggi4 · Nov 20, 2013

Azrael47 :

I don't think that's true. Since higher resolutions doesn't tax CPUs more but do tax GPUs, the bottleneck will be smaller the higher the resolution

Outlander_04 · Nov 20, 2013

Azrael47 :

With higher resolutions you would expect any cpu bottleneck to diminish not get bigger

Gam3Pwn3rz · Nov 20, 2013

Outlander_04 :

I use a 26-28" tv as a monitor if that changes anything.

Gam3Pwn3rz · Nov 20, 2013

Outlander_04 :

I use a 26-28" tv as a monitor if that changes anything.

Krazeee · Nov 20, 2013

I run 2x7870's and my cards bottleneck on an i5-3570k... I don't know what games you guys are playing...

Outlander_04 · Nov 20, 2013

Gam3Pwn3rz :

Screen size is not important . Only screen resolution .

If you have a 720p TV you will not be needing more than one GTX 760 . If its a 1080p screen then a single GTX770 will play everything

Gam3Pwn3rz · Nov 20, 2013

Outlander_04 :

Gam3Pwn3rz :

Screen size is not important . Only screen resolution .

If you have a 720p TV you will not be needing more than one GTX 760 . If its a 1080p screen then a single GTX770 will play everything

How does the screen resolution change? I looked in dxdiag and it says my current display mode is 1360 x 768.

Outlander_04 · Nov 20, 2013

1366 x 768 probably .

That is the fixed number of pixels on the screen . It cant be changed . You can output signal from your computer at a higher or lower resolution but then the monitor has to fudge the image a little to fit ............. so its insane to run an LCD screen at anything other than its native resolution .

My monitor standards that is a low resolution . A single GTX 760 is going to easily run any game at more than 60 fps . You may experience screen tearing where the image distorts because the graphics card will be delivering more frames per second than the monitor can actually display .
You can set the nVidia driver to enable Vsync which limits the graphics card to what the tv can handle . There is a small unnoticeable amount of lag .......usually unnoticeable

Ortiz94x · Feb 11, 2014

Outlander_04 :

1360x768 is what my TVs native resolution is but I game in 1080p. It looks sharp like 1080p only problem is you can tell it's made for 1360x768 because at 1080p small font looks almost fuzzy.

Gam3Pwn3rz · Feb 11, 2014

Ortiz94x :

Outlander_04 :

1360x768 is what my TVs native resolution is but I game in 1080p. It looks sharp like 1080p only problem is you can tell it's made for 1360x768 because at 1080p small font looks almost fuzzy.

When I went from VGA to HDMI my resolution went to 1080p, but like you it made all text fuzzy and made me feel nauseous. I feel a lot more at home at 1360x768.

Ortiz94x · Feb 11, 2014

I just made my fonts bold even on my desktop it helped a lot. Plus Windows 8.1 things are a bit bigger and clearer to read anyways. Gaming at 1080p looks normal no matter the game (Unless it's before 2006). Idk if you've tried gaming 1080p.

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