HD 7970 bottleneck with FX 6300 at 4.6 clock!?

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Hello Everyone, first of all i've got to say that english isn't my first language so, if i write something wrong, please forgive me!!

Well actually im looking for to upgrade my GPU, I have a GTX 650 ti boost and i wanna change to a HD 7970. I have an FX 6300 at 4.6 clock 1.46 vcore. Can my fx 6300 run the HD 7970 without a problem? should i get a chiper GPU? thank you everyone and have a good day.
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this is pretty much spot on. you will get a good boost overall, but a game like Skyrim for example, you may see no performance increase, where if you put an intel i5 in there you would see a good increase. Most games shouldnt be an issue though.
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it really depends on the game and the settings you are running at same games you might be CPU limited some games you may be GPU you can try runing benchmarks at your overclock settings and then running your benchmarks at your stock clock settings if they dont change or not much then a faster gpu is an option if your performance falls off a cliff at stock clocks than an upgrade to CPU might be more worthwhile.
 
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this is pretty much spot on. you will get a good boost overall, but a game like Skyrim for example, you may see no performance increase, where if you put an intel i5 in there you would see a good increase. Most games shouldnt be an issue though.
 
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so, should i get a lower GPU? something like HD 7950? would a 7950 run ok? or should i get a HD 7870?
Should i get a GA-B75M-D3H and i5 3470 then later i buy the HD 7970?
Should I only buy a FX 8350?
 
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7850/7870 is the same as r9 270x hope that helps. honestly i don't believe in cpu bottlenecks yeah at some point a better processor will increase your frames but if you buy a faster GPU it will almost allways increase your performance (unless your frames is > your display refresh rate already) Toms has been using the FX series as their budget gaming rig in their system builder shoot outs paired with 1 or even 2 or 3 large graphics cards and have been getting great results so far i say go for it man. if ALL you do is game then your processor should be fine you can swap out processor and motherboard down the road.
 
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hey thank you, i will get an Intel and a 3470 for my future HD 7970, thanks!!

 
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