Will my amd fx 6350 cpu bottleneck a gtx 770 if a buy one?

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No, a Celeron or a Core 2 will not do better than a 6350 and they're Intel.

CPU bottlenecking is not an issue to concern yourself with in regards to a 770 and a modern Quad-Core. There are many youtube videos proving that bottlenecking is not something these days to be concerned about on any half-decent CPU. The 6350 will be more than fine to utilize the 770 IMO. Swapping it out with a 4790k would obviously net you a few more FPS but that would not be because you're removing a bottle neck it would be because you're going from a $100 CPU to a $350 CPU for a 5-7 FPS gain.
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No, a Celeron or a Core 2 will not do better than a 6350 and they're Intel.

CPU bottlenecking is not an issue to concern yourself with in regards to a 770 and a modern Quad-Core. There are many youtube videos proving that bottlenecking is not something these days to be concerned about on any half-decent CPU. The 6350 will be more than fine to utilize the 770 IMO. Swapping it out with a 4790k would obviously net you a few more FPS but that would not be because you're removing a bottle neck it would be because you're going from a $100 CPU to a $350 CPU for a 5-7 FPS gain.
 
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WRONG. WRONG. WRONG.

*First of all, I do recommend you get an Asus GTX770 (or wait for perhaps the GTX860 once we have more info) but you should know the above info is wrong.

More info:

(I'll use the FX-8350 simply because more graphs are available. Assume the FX-6350 to have the same, or slightly worse performance)

The FX-8350 bottlenecks Skyrim by over 40% in some scenarios; it's even worse in Starcraft 2 which gets 60% better performance an a modern i5/i7 compared to the FX-6300. In fact it bottlenecks well over 90% of the games on the market by varying amounts. http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/fx-8350-vishera-review,3328-14.html

Other (I can confirm they are still bottlenecked at 1920x1080. There's plenty of benchmarks):
http://www.anandtech.com/show/6396/the-vishera-review-amd-fx8350-fx8320-fx6300-and-fx4300-tested/5

It will however vary quite a bit between games. In BF4 which is better threaded the FX-8350 and i5-4670K have similar performance. The AMD CPU has more cores but they don't perform as well individually which again is why most games don't run as well with any of the AMD CPU's.

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"Swapping it out with a 4790k would obviously net you a few more FPS but that would not be because you're removing a bottle neck... "

That makes no sense. The DEFINITION of a bottleneck is a part that slows down a system. If replacing a CPU with a different CPU results in better performance then obviously the first CPU had been a bottleneck.

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People still continue to claim that modern AMD CPU's don't bottleneck games yet it's just not true with many, many benchmarks to show this.

Again, I'm not sure why people claim a particular CPU won't be a bottleneck but that a different CPU can result in better performance because that is what a bottleneck is. The ONLY way you can say there was no bottleneck would be to replace it with a better CPU (or overclock the same CPU) and get the exact same performance.
 
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This is completely wrong a weaker cpu core can not produce as many fps plain and simple
 
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Read what I wrote, I said that a weaker CPU will not produce better FPS please stop jumping to conclusions.

bot·tle·neck
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noun
1.
the neck or mouth of a bottle.
2.
a point of congestion or blockage, in particular.

When you are being "Bottlenecked" it is because your CPU is working at 100% load and unable to process any faster while your GPU is sitting there with all these pre-rendered frames unable to push them through the bus to the display.

This will occur with VERY old high-end CPUs and new GPUs as well as cheap CPUs and high end GPUs. The reason you see better FPS from a more expensive CPU isn't because the GPU is being un bottlenecked. It is because the parts of the game that rely on the CPU (usually graphical and texture details, depends on the game). If your PC is calling for rendered polygons but your CPU is lagging behind and unable to process calculations within the game or pre-render called framed you will run into a bottleneck. Your components work in-tandem to render your flashy Battlefield game at smooth FPS, your RAM, CPU, and GPU all play a part. If your CPU is doing it's part faster/better you will get a better experience but not because of a bottleneck being removed. You can test this by sticking a GPU in an older system and watching the core clock/GPU usage move as the CPU gets maxed out. You will notice a framerate and frame time drop while the CPU stays maxed at 100%. Replacing the CPU with a faster CPU like the 6350 will eliminate this problem. You will still not get the same FPS that the 4790k gives you because the part of the game reliant on the 6350 simply won't run as well on a 6350 when compared to a 4790k.

The same can be said with a GTX 760 vs a GTX 780. By installing a GTX 780 you aren't "Un bottlenecking" your CPU you're installing a faster and more capable yet more expensive piece of hardware so that tasks reliant on the GPU can be preformed faster and, hopefully, with more precision (stability).
 
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