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will i be bottlenecked??

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March 12, 2014 11:23:42 AM

im thinking of upgrading my gpu to a gtx 760. Bellow are my current specs

cpu-fx 6100
mobo-n68 vs3 fx
ram-8gb
psu-700w
gpu radeon 6670 hd 1gb

If i get the gtx 760 will i be bottle-necked super hard? and if so what needs to be switched

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March 12, 2014 11:27:15 AM

nope it shouldn't bottleneck at all the cpu is pretty decent.
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March 12, 2014 11:36:50 AM

Being that your CPU is of the Bulldozer line (not great for gaming), you'll likely experience a bottleneck. Yes, even with a GTX 760.
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March 12, 2014 11:41:51 AM

i would go with the fx 6300 it will be better.
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March 12, 2014 12:08:49 PM

ModernWarfare said:
i would go with the fx 6300 it will be better.


will my mobo support a fx 6300 or will i need to upgrade?

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March 12, 2014 12:21:43 PM

The current mobo will support some upgrades: http://www.asrock.com/mb/overview.asp?cat=CPU&Model=N68... FX but they only show support for the 95 Watt units, so it looks like the 8 core 125 Watt FX83xx is excluded.
If you're on a single 1080 display I don't think the current CPU will be that much of a problem, there is better, but then again, there's also a lot worse!
With only the FX63xx available as an upgrade without a mobo change I'd look into adding a half decent cooler and giving the current unit a mild overclock, it's just not worth the money to pop the 'faster' CPU in.
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March 12, 2014 12:25:25 PM

germs122 said:
ModernWarfare said:
i would go with the fx 6300 it will be better.


will my mobo support a fx 6300 or will i need to upgrade?



yes it does support it as long as its am3 socket.
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March 12, 2014 1:42:41 PM

depends on the game, of course...but i'd agree that bottleneck won't be bad at 1080p, but may be noticeable sometimes.
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March 12, 2014 1:44:13 PM

Depends also what your trying to play (BF3 or BF4 for example) and at what settings (Ultra 1080p 64Man Maps) will easily determine the issue if you load in MSI Afterburner. Look at the scores on the CPU, GPU and see, does the GPU seem to be less used then the CPU? Then yes the CPU is 'choking' or bottlenecking the data and the GPU is twiddling it's thumbs waiting on it.

Typically the BF4 scores for a 6xxx series shows the CPU MAXING across all cores, and reason many upgraded to the 8xxx (which sadly is the last chipset from AMD in their entire line capable of challenging the i3/i5 Haswells in performance), this would be a 'bottleneck' for all the 6xxx players, where as the i5-3xxx/8xxx still have 'processing room' that won't experience the 100% CPU usage. As BF5 or whatever else is developed, we will see more demand on the CPU, and thus the iCore - 3xxx and older or FX-8xxx will then be in the same '100% CPU Usage' issue FX-6xxx people experience now. So investing in 'another' 6xxx doesn't seem to make sense.

Sadly, AMD at E3 and CES only pushed out it's Low Cost, Low Power, for Everyone (i.e. Joe Consumer needing to see Facebook, not Jane Gamer trying to crank on Titanfall) APUs, and now with the AM1 motherboard push (all in one chip computers) it seems AMD has tossed the towel in making 'gaming' CPUs to Intel's Haswell iCores, which now a i3 is 'just' behind a FX-8xxx, and the FX-8xxx is behind the i5 repeatedly (of course AMD never succeeded in challenging the CURRENT i7 Cores). With Intel allowing heavy discounts on pre-configured systems for the Haswell, your looking at only a $100 or so difference between a i5 and a i7 where typically in the past you were talking $500-$1000 differences with brand new chipsets. So now someone using Slickdeals.net scores a i7 Haswell, 8GB, 2TB, DVD, W8 Lenovo desktop from Staples for only $590, replaced the PSU (600W PCpartpicker $90) and the GPU of choice ($149-$499), or in your case swap the PSU and get the 760, and your typically a BF4 Ultra 1080p 64Man Map playing at 60FPS or more for very little cost comparartively to all previous releases of 'new' Intel chips.

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