Athlon x4 740 and msi gtx760 oc?

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Hi around,
i would like to know will my CPU and other system will bottleneck the MSI GTX760 OC Twin frozt edition video card, or Gigabyte gtx580 GPU, if MSI really is too powerful.

I am planning to upgrade my CPU to 6core amd- 6350, but that will be after 6 months, yet i want better gpu now.

MY PC SPECS:
CPU - Athlon 4x 740
RAM - 8 GB Kingston hyperx fury 1600 mhz
SSD - 60 gb kingston
HDD - 1tb kingston 32 bit 7200 rmp
Motherboard - GIGABYTE GA-F2A78M-DS2
And 700 watt Zalman ATX 2.3 Dual Forward PSU
 
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I don't think your cpu will bottleneck your gpu much, if at all. You can overclock the athlon x4 740, but you have to do so using the base frequency since the multiplier is locked. You can't get quite the gains you could with an unlocked athlon.

In case you arent aware you will have to upgrade your motherboard when you get your new CPU as well.
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I don't think your cpu will bottleneck your gpu much, if at all. You can overclock the athlon x4 740, but you have to do so using the base frequency since the multiplier is locked. You can't get quite the gains you could with an unlocked athlon.

In case you arent aware you will have to upgrade your motherboard when you get your new CPU as well.
 
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Well, good, then i can nuy new gpu now and then up my cpu.
And i know i will have to change my mothrboard couse of socket, and i think i will be needed to change my pc case to, sinc its a m-atx and m-atx motherboards that support FX series cpu are pretty bad
 
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It'll bottleneck to some degree, but that depends on the game. I have discussed these issues
extensively in another thread, please see:

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/answers/id-2307854/gtx285-280-sli.html

Different CPU involved, but the same general issues apply (the original poster is considering
getting a GTX 760).

You would see a larger performance difference by switching to a newer platform, especially anything
later from Intel (SandyBridge or newer), doubly so as CPUs like the 2500K, 2600K, 2700K (but not
the 3K IvyBridge series) overclock ridiculously easily.

My site has lots of GTX 580 results:

http://www.sgidepot.co.uk/sgi.html#PC

Ian.

 
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