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October 5, 2014 11:07:05 PM

I have a FX 8150 and have ordered an MSI GTX 970. Would it bottleneck the GPU at all? Looking to upgrade but don't really have much money to spend on a new CPU.

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October 5, 2014 11:10:33 PM

Arma 3 and other single CPU games will bottleneck quite hard. Should have asked us before you ordered.
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October 5, 2014 11:14:12 PM

Damn dude.

I agree with BigBadBeef, should've asked first before you bought the parts.

Try overclocking the CPU some and see if you see any performance gains.
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October 5, 2014 11:14:37 PM

Yeah anything heavy that runs on a single thread is going to suck on your 8150. Only hope now is to overclock it. Make sure you have a good aftermarket cooler cuz its gonna get hot.
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October 5, 2014 11:15:24 PM

There is never any harm in buying a graphics card that will be "bottlenecked" by your CPU.
At worst, you are getting the same performance as a slower graphics that you could have bought.
Generally though, the better graphics card allows higher detail settings while your frame rate is still limited by the CPU.

FX-8150 isn't so bad anyway. Noticeably slower than a Core i5, but still managing well over 60 FPS in World Of Warcraft, which is notoriously CPU bound:
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/fx-8150-zambezi-bul...
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October 5, 2014 11:17:42 PM

huilun02 said:
Yeah anything heavy that runs on a single thread is going to suck on your 8150. Only hope now is to overclock it. Make sure you have a good aftermarket cooler cuz its gonna get hot.


As in really hot! Like the devil himself was cooking it!

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October 5, 2014 11:32:15 PM

I grow weary of you petty human.
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October 6, 2014 10:30:59 AM

The GPU has not shipped yet so I can still cancel it. Though I would rather change the mobo & CPU. Any suggestions?
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October 6, 2014 2:35:32 PM

h3llfire741 said:
The GPU has not shipped yet so I can still cancel it. Though I would rather change the mobo & CPU. Any suggestions?


Unless you already have an R9 270X / GTX 760 or higher card, you will notice a much bigger difference in games from the GTX 970 than any CPU upgrade. I would recommend you buy this card.

When you want to upgrade your CPU, motherboard and RAM, at the moment I would commend the Core i5 4460, 4590, 4690 or 4690K. With the K CPU you would want a Z97 motherboard to allow overclocking or for the others a H97 motherboard or a B85 motherboard that supports Haswell Refresh CPUs without a BIOS update. Broadwell is expected Q3 next year if you haven't bought something by then.
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October 6, 2014 2:45:03 PM

Try out the 970 with what you've got to start with. If you find the CPU bottlenecking - getting to 100% usage (per Task Manager) before the GPU does - then look at upgrading your CPU.
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October 6, 2014 4:44:26 PM

I'm a full time student atm so I don't have a lot of money to spend on an upgrade. I'm hoping that by next summer, I will have a job and since we should since Broadwell sometime next year, it's probably best to wait until then rather than rush a Haswell right now. I don't really have any problems with my current build right now, but i've never had a card like the 970 before, so hopefully no problems when it ships.
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October 6, 2014 6:03:22 PM

h3llfire741 said:
I'm a full time student atm so I don't have a lot of money to spend on an upgrade. I'm hoping that by next summer, I will have a job and since we should since Broadwell sometime next year, it's probably best to wait until then rather than rush a Haswell right now. I don't really have any problems with my current build right now, but i've never had a card like the 970 before, so hopefully no problems when it ships.


The card should be great.
We haven't mentioned this before, but you should be using a quality power supply rated at least 430W, with a combined +12V rail rating of at least 35A.
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October 6, 2014 8:36:02 PM

VincentP said:
h3llfire741 said:
I'm a full time student atm so I don't have a lot of money to spend on an upgrade. I'm hoping that by next summer, I will have a job and since we should since Broadwell sometime next year, it's probably best to wait until then rather than rush a Haswell right now. I don't really have any problems with my current build right now, but i've never had a card like the 970 before, so hopefully no problems when it ships.


The card should be great.
We haven't mentioned this before, but you should be using a quality power supply rated at least 430W, with a combined +12V rail rating of at least 35A.


This one ok?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...

It's the one I am currently using.

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October 6, 2014 10:20:44 PM

h3llfire741 said:
VincentP said:
h3llfire741 said:
I'm a full time student atm so I don't have a lot of money to spend on an upgrade. I'm hoping that by next summer, I will have a job and since we should since Broadwell sometime next year, it's probably best to wait until then rather than rush a Haswell right now. I don't really have any problems with my current build right now, but i've never had a card like the 970 before, so hopefully no problems when it ships.


The card should be great.
We haven't mentioned this before, but you should be using a quality power supply rated at least 430W, with a combined +12V rail rating of at least 35A.


This one ok?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...

It's the one I am currently using.



Absolutely. This is a great quality supply with plenty of power for your system.
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