will the FX-6300 bottleneck the R9 280x?

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I cant find a definitive answer on weather the FX-6300 will bottleneck the R9 280x. Can i get someone who knows what they are talking about to answer this for me?
 
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No, the FX 6300 won't limit the R9 290x from reaching 100% GPU core usage (aka bottlenecking), though something like an 8320 is better paired with the R9 280X and you will see additional FPS in games that use up to 8 cores.
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No, the FX 6300 won't limit the R9 290x from reaching 100% GPU core usage (aka bottlenecking), though something like an 8320 is better paired with the R9 280X and you will see additional FPS in games that use up to 8 cores.
 
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That's what i like to hear, definitive answers. You sir' have earned yourself a solution point lol. So What about a game that doesn't utilize all 8 cores? I heard some un-definitive talk about the 6300 individual cores being more powerful...?
 
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I don't imagine that something like the FX 8350 will perform better than the FX 6350 (lets assume that clock rates are equal) in a game that only uses 4 cores. There might be a performance discrepency because the FX 83xx has 4 FPUs against the FX 63xx's 3, which those quad core optimized games may be able to take advantage over.
 
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As of now from what I read most games wont use more then 4 cores if that but the extra speed does help the clock rate but a lot of us can remember single core chips running 3 ghz or higher now we have duals all the way up to 8 cores and the game makers are starting to shift in that direction but slowly.
 
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