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Does an AMD FX-6300 bottleneck an R9 290?

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August 14, 2014 6:03:45 PM

I haven't really noticed much better performance since upgrading from an R9 270, and I believe this may be the problem.

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August 14, 2014 6:05:53 PM

I would say yes, esspiccaily if its not overclocked.
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August 14, 2014 6:07:01 PM

it is bottlenecked quite a bit, but not very much, i recommend going with a 8350 for no bottlenecks at all.
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August 14, 2014 6:23:33 PM

Drugpickle said:
I haven't really noticed much better performance since upgrading from an R9 270, and I believe this may be the problem.


depends what you're doing. I really need to just cut and paste what i say about bottlenecks... it comes up several times a week.

Generally speaking SOMETHING in your system is always bottlenecking something else. in short your system is only as fast as the slowest part. there will be times a cpu is a bottleneck, times it's the gpu... times it's something like a hard drive or ram, or hypertransport... or northbridge... or SOMETHING will be slowing your system down.

generally speaking a 6 core fx is good enough for whatever you're doing as long as you don't mind a little overclocking. And generally speaking you need to overclock an fx cpu up to around 4.7ghz to be about on par with an intel. it doesn't matter the core count, this is basically the baseline. Now the good news is the 6 core fx cpus overclock well, and usually don't beat on a motherboard too badly. Getting to 4.4ghz should be pretty easy regardless what setup you're on. the rest of the trip to 4.7ghz depends on the chip, cpu cooler and motherboard... but in general as i said 6 core fx cpus tend to overclock well. so it might be worth looking into.

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August 14, 2014 6:53:46 PM

masterboy9 said:
it is bottlenecked quite a bit, but not very much, i recommend going with a 8350 for no bottlenecks at all.


could you clarify which one (quite a bit or not very much) if you don't mind? If I wouldn't see much of an increase in performance if I upgraded my cpu, I'd rather just stick with what I already have. (I realize it's impossible to take all scenarios into account and know for sure, but I'd like to get as much information as possible before I spend the money to upgrade)
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August 14, 2014 6:59:54 PM

Going with an 8350 would probably not help with the bottleneck, they have the same single core performence clock for clock.
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