Phenom II 1090T with R9 290x

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Chapi Chapz

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Well, the thing is I have a Phenom II 1090T 3.2Ghz (Not OC'ed) with a 550ti and I'm buying a R9 290X, and I wanna know if the cpu is powerful enough for that card of it will bottleneck with it?

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well as said, it will bottleneck at stock for sure, but the upgrade from a 550ti to the 290x with the bottleneck u may not see the huge difference from it being bottlenecked to a cpu that can handle it. Again as said overclocking will help quite a bit, i would at 3.2ghz my x6 would prob just run my 7970/280x same thing lol but at 3.7ghz performs basically on par with most 7970 benchmarks. Obviously the 290x is a big difference from the 7970, but if u have an overclocking board and get above 3.6ghz and near 4.0 it should help quite a bit.

Also the bottleneck will be less at the card will prob throttle cause of temps with the stock cooler lol, would recommend waiting til aftermarket designed coolers are released or add a arctic cooler...
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It will bottleneck quite a bit. Even at 4Ghz you will still have a bottleneck but obviously overclocking will help.
 
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well as said, it will bottleneck at stock for sure, but the upgrade from a 550ti to the 290x with the bottleneck u may not see the huge difference from it being bottlenecked to a cpu that can handle it. Again as said overclocking will help quite a bit, i would at 3.2ghz my x6 would prob just run my 7970/280x same thing lol but at 3.7ghz performs basically on par with most 7970 benchmarks. Obviously the 290x is a big difference from the 7970, but if u have an overclocking board and get above 3.6ghz and near 4.0 it should help quite a bit.

Also the bottleneck will be less at the card will prob throttle cause of temps with the stock cooler lol, would recommend waiting til aftermarket designed coolers are released or add a arctic cooler or get a nzxt g10
 
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Thanks for the quick answer, and sorry I reply so late lol, will an AMD FX-8350 @ 4.0 Ghz 8 core be enough to run it without any trouble? (without overclocking)

Also, my motherboard is a Asus M5A97 R2.0 and a Corsair CX600 600W PSU, are those right or I need to upgrade either for them?
Does my PSU have the right pins for the card? I'm asking cause I don't know much about how the pins work and this card has 2 power slots soo :D
 
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the psu should be enough for the 290x and 8350, the 290x uses a 6 and 8 pin connectors which is about 300+watt ish for the gpu so u should be fine, and it should have two 6+2 or 8 pin pcie connectors and the board will be fine too.

The 8350 beats the x6s in multi thread but a similar clocked x6 will prob win in single thread but either way the stock 8350 will out perform the x6 and may help with a bottleneck if there is any, and leave a little room for an overclock psu wise and motherboard wise. U can oc on it, just its still a 4+2 power phase if i remember.
 
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The Phenom is a lot stronger core for core than the FX series. Before I swapped out my 1075t (no oc) I was running a 290x with it. Only games that had issues were Metro and Arma. Games like LoL, Hawken, Skyrim (lots of mod), and Warframe actually ran better on the 1075t.

Right now it should be fine, just be ready to upgrade in the near future.
 
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i can let u know for sure lol, just ordered a fx 8320 and it'll come tomorrow, but im with koreanoverlord, ur x6 will prob run the 290x fine at stock and an overclock will surely help, with that board u can prob hit 3.6-3.8ghz as starting from 3.2, u should easily get near the cpus max freq with the lower end board.
 
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