Athlon II x3 450 bottlenecking question

Sniper434

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im getting mixed answers on this but will this cpu (athlon II x3 450) bottleneck the Radeon HD 7770 gpu

keep getting answer of yes and no just want a good answer lol
 
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If you really want to check, start up msi afterburner and turn on frame monitoring. Then play your games with v sync on. Then minimize while playing and read the graphs. If the frame rate is below 60 fps at any point when gpu usage is not at 100% then you are bottlenecking.

Sniper434

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the games i play are diablo 3, wow , dayz/dayz standalone, hearthstone, those are the games i play
 

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If you really want to check, start up msi afterburner and turn on frame monitoring. Then play your games with v sync on. Then minimize while playing and read the graphs. If the frame rate is below 60 fps at any point when gpu usage is not at 100% then you are bottlenecking.
 
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