- Aug 16, 2014
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Hi, I was planning on finally buying a new GPU to replace the AMD HD 7850 HIS IceQ 2Gb that I am currently running, but I read online that running an AMD R9 290 (which is what I want to upgrade to) will be bottlenecked by my processor. I'm currently running an 'AMD Bulldozer FX-4 Quad Core 4130 Black Edition 3.8GHz' processor with a 'Gigabyte 78LMT-USB3 AMD 760G' motherboard.
Would I be bottlenecking the GPU using these pieces of hardware, in which case, should I upgrade these before the GPU? I've also seen that new games like Assassins Creed: Unity and Far Cry 4 also state that they won't play smoothly on my spec, as an 8-core AMD processor with 4GHz is the minimum needed apparently. Is that the case? Does anyone use the components I'm using and run into any problems on these games?
Any advice will be greatly appreciated,
Matt.
Would I be bottlenecking the GPU using these pieces of hardware, in which case, should I upgrade these before the GPU? I've also seen that new games like Assassins Creed: Unity and Far Cry 4 also state that they won't play smoothly on my spec, as an 8-core AMD processor with 4GHz is the minimum needed apparently. Is that the case? Does anyone use the components I'm using and run into any problems on these games?
Any advice will be greatly appreciated,
Matt.
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