What graphics card should I upgrade to?

dsalyer · Dec 8, 2013

First of all, here's a link to my build with all of my components on PCPartPicker: http://pcpartpicker.com/b/IQp

With that out of the way, what graphics card would you recommend for my system? I was originally looking at an r9 280x or a 770, but I can't seem to find a consensus on whether or not my cpu would bottle neck those graphics cards. So now I'm stuck between an r9 270 OC'ed, a 760, an r9 280x, or a 770. I play a ton of different games, mainly things like Skyrim, Borderlands 2, The Witcher 2, Civ V, Chivalry: MW, and I avoid games like BF4, Crysis, and COD Ghosts. I'll be playing on a 1920x1080 display. What do you guys think would fit best in my system?

huilun02 · Dec 8, 2013

None of the games you play are particularly new, so you'll be fine with something less then a 280x/770. You might encounter a bottleneck if you run the FX 6300 as it is, so it would be good if you can overclock it as much as possible.

dsalyer · Dec 8, 2013

huilun02 :

Yeah, I was just hoping to have a decent graphics card for Elder Scrolls online and any other new games that come out for the next year or two. Are you saying that the 6300 would bottleneck something like the 760? or just the 280x/770? I'm fine with overclocking since that seems to be what the FX series does best.

huilun02 · Dec 8, 2013

You could encounter a bottleneck in some games. A good example is Arma 3 and Crysis 3

http://www.techspot.com/review/712-arma-3-benchmarks/page5.html

http://www.techspot.com/review/642-crysis-3-performance/page6.html

Look the section comparing the FX 8350's clock speed. Notice the game runs better as clock speed goes up. This indicates a bottleneck, and is happening to the 8350 because the game doesn't use all 8 cores and depends heavily on the speed of individual cores.

But as you don't play those shooter titles, your chances of a bottleneck are pretty slim. Also note the Crysis 3 benchmark was done using a GTX 680, which has about the same performance as the GTX 770.

Because you want some future proofing, I suggest getting a 280x or 770 and overclocking your FX 6300 to 4.0 or 4.1Ghz, which shouldn't be a problem because it can naturally turbo to those frequencies.

dsalyer · Dec 8, 2013

huilun02 :

You could encounter a bottleneck in some games. A good example is Arma 3 and Crysis 3

http://www.techspot.com/review/712-arma-3-benchmarks/page5.html

http://www.techspot.com/review/642-crysis-3-performance/page6.html

Look the section comparing the FX 8350's clock speed. Notice the game runs better as clock speed goes up. This indicates a bottleneck, and is happening to the 8350 because the game doesn't use all 8 cores and depends heavily on the speed of individual cores.

But as you don't play those shooter titles, your chances of a bottleneck are pretty slim. Also note the Crysis 3 benchmark was done using a GTX 680, which has about the same performance as the GTX 770.

Because you want some future proofing, I suggest getting a 280x or 770 and overclocking your FX 6300 to 4.0 or 4.1Ghz, which shouldn't be a problem because it can naturally turbo to those frequencies.

Sounds good. Thanks for your answers!

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