bottlenecking HELP!!! (NEED ANSWERING)

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randomguy12680

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I bought this computer for a cheap price a month ago and I wanted to add a gpu so I could play games on reasonable settings, but I only just found out about bottlenecking so I was worried that the gpu I bought wouldn't work because my cpu would bottleneck it.

My gpu is a AMD Radeon HD 7770 1gb

My cpu is a amd a8 6600k

I REALLY NEED THIS ANSWERING HELP!!
 
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If your new card is a HD 7770 you won't have a bottleneck.

Example of a CPU intensive game would be AI intensive games like Arma 2/3, physics sandbox games like Kerbal Space Program, MMORPG, and Real Time Strategy games like Starcraft II.
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Your A8 6600K is a not too bad. Quad core at 3.9Ghz should allow you to run a good card without any bottleneck, unless you play games that are very CPU intensive.

Another thing to note is a more powerful card will likely require more power from the PSU.

So what new card you intend to buy?
 
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randomguy12680

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i bought the one i have listed in my answer and i dont really understand your answer is it no or yes it will bottleneck and sorry for asking so many questions but could you give me an example of a cpu intensive game
 
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If your new card is a HD 7770 you won't have a bottleneck.

Example of a CPU intensive game would be AI intensive games like Arma 2/3, physics sandbox games like Kerbal Space Program, MMORPG, and Real Time Strategy games like Starcraft II.
 
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huilun02

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A bottleneck is probably only obvious in extreme cases, for example playing one of those CPU intensive games on your A8 6600K with an extremely powerful card like a GTX Titan. You will be getting abnormally low framerates.

But if the bottleneck is only a small amount like with an entry level card (like your Hd 7770 is there is a bottleneck at all) you can hardly tell, because if you eliminate the bottleneck you don't see a noticeable increase in performance at all.

The definite way to identify a bottleneck is to measure game performance (framerate) and then measure it again after replacing the CPU with something more powerful. If performance increased by a significant amount, the previous CPU was causing a bottleneck.
 
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