Will my CPU bottle-neck?

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I'm building a new rig and I have decided to go with a GTX 770 for games such as BF4, Arma 3, Watch Dogs, etc...

Since i'm going to be playing on a 1920x1080, I didn't really think it was necessary to get a 780 (correct me if i'm wrong, I would love to get 60FPS + at max settings, but thought the 770 would to just as good) And I would be pairing it with an AMD FX 6350.

Now here's where I get confused. Will I be getting 60FPS at max or close to max settings with a GTX 770 and 6350? Or are these games CPU dependent and need an i5 to run better? I really wouldn't want to get a 770 or 780 to only get bottle-necked with the FX 6350. Really tired of the FPS drops and stutters that I usually play with, and I really want a smooth experience. I'm only playing on 1920x1080 btw.


NOTE: My budget is $400 - 500

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I, personally have no experience with AMD cards. But for the most part, all I read is that they still suffer from a lot of driver issues. That aside, the r9 290 is definitely the card to get if you're not getting a GTX 780.

As for the CPU, I'm going to recommend either an H, or Z97, depending on what you choose.

If you plan on overclocking, I'd go with an i5-4690k, yet to be released. But if you plan on getting the new CPU now, or soon, the i5-4670k will work as well.

And of course, if you don't plan on overclocking, the i5-4690 would be a great choice, again, if not, the i5-4670 works as well.

H series motherboards with the non k-series CPUs, Z series motherboards with a k-series CPU.
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If you were to get a 770, that processor could bottleneck just slightly, but this can be rectified by overclocking but it would bottleneck more so with the 780. A GTX 770 is fine for Arma and BF4, but for Ultra on watch dogs, it's recommended to have a 780, although if you were going to get a 780, I'd suggest an R9 290 instead because they're cheaper, have more VRAM and generally are on par with each other (but in watch dogs which is optimised for nvidia cards, a 780 would perform better and for BF4, it'd be the R9 290 that would perform better due to being AMD-optimised and having mantle).

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/watch-dogs-pc-performance,review-32960-6.html
 
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There are certain games where the bottleneck for a 6300 (6350 is just an overclocked 6300) is rather noticeable. And this is just with a 770. Search the forums and you'll likely find complaints about the 6300 not performing up to snuff with a 770, and especially a 780. In fact I think there was a thread earlier today with an individual who had a 6300 and a 780 who was running into major bottlenecks.
 
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So would you recommend me getting an i5? If so, which one and would it pair better with the r9 290 or 770? I think the 780 cost too much at the moment.
 
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If you were going to get an i5, I'd suggest an i5-4670k and honestly, it wouldn't matter which card you get because either would be fine.

I currently have a i5-2500 which doesn't bottleneck R9 290 crossfire.
 
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I, personally have no experience with AMD cards. But for the most part, all I read is that they still suffer from a lot of driver issues. That aside, the r9 290 is definitely the card to get if you're not getting a GTX 780.

As for the CPU, I'm going to recommend either an H, or Z97, depending on what you choose.

If you plan on overclocking, I'd go with an i5-4690k, yet to be released. But if you plan on getting the new CPU now, or soon, the i5-4670k will work as well.

And of course, if you don't plan on overclocking, the i5-4690 would be a great choice, again, if not, the i5-4670 works as well.

H series motherboards with the non k-series CPUs, Z series motherboards with a k-series CPU.
 
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