Will the FX-4300 bottleneck Crossfire-7950's

Captainzach · Jan 5, 2015

So my friend was wondering if an FX-4300 would bottleneck two 7950's and I didn't know what to tell him so he has his CPU overclocked to 4.5GHz and he has 8gb of ram, and a 850w power supply (for any compatibility issues I listed that)

Would it cause bottlenecking in games such as BF4 and Far Cry 4?

Edit: He ended up getting an FX-8350, R9-290X and getting 8 more gigs of ram

Jared Jensen · Jan 5, 2015

For CPU intensive games then yes. Your CPU will be a big bottleneck

Captainzach · Jan 5, 2015

Jared Jensen :

What would be a decent AMD CPU for this then(under 130)
He doesn't have an Intel mobo so he has to go with AMD

Shamar Holtz · Jan 5, 2015

Captainzach :

get the AMD FX 6300 and a Hyper 212 Evo CPU cooler and over clock it

Shamar Holtz · Jan 5, 2015

http://pcpartpicker.com/part/amd-cpu-fd6300wmhkbox
http://pcpartpicker.com/part/cooler-master-cpu-cooler-rr212e20pkr2

Captainzach · Jan 5, 2015

Shamar Holtz :

It's a good thing he has the 212 evo already, and do you think this will last him a while (the fx-6300 with xfire 7950?)

Shamar Holtz · Jan 5, 2015

Overclocked it will last him a while but I would try to get a new CPU as quickly as he can. Most games use 4 cores so you may not notice the bottleneck on most games. You shouldn't see any bottleneck on Far cry or BF4 (SP)

Captainzach · Jan 5, 2015

Shamar Holtz :

One last thing would you happen to know an estimated FPS for the fx 6300 and xfire 7950's on BF4 or Far cry?

Shamar Holtz · Jan 5, 2015

Lol! I will promise you that you can get 60fps maxed out...That's kinda sad

Captainzach · Jan 5, 2015

Shamar Holtz :

Thanks

yatys93 · Jan 5, 2015

I would like to point out the the AMD 8350 is £126 on the uk amazon, if this is a US discussion, then I will go back to my corner

Captainzach · Jan 5, 2015

yatys93 :

This is US........... but thanks anyways

yatys93 · Jan 5, 2015

TO THE CORNER!

slyu9213 · Jan 5, 2015

Like most said the 4300 will be a big bottleneck to 2 7950s in XFire. Not as much with just one 7950. For $130 and under the best CPU you can get would be the FX 6300. They OC pretty easily with a good motherboard too which will help. A FX 6300 @3.9-4.2GHz with 2x GTX 770 SLI should be able to get an average FPS of ~95 and minimums of ~60. Not sure how you can compare a GTX 770 to a 7950.

Shamar Holtz · Jan 5, 2015

The 770 and the 7950 performance as a single and a quite comparable but the 770 is the winner overall, but when you talk about SLI or xfire the 770s will have their way with those 2 7950s

slyu9213 · Jan 5, 2015

Shamar Holtz :

Cool, so the OP should expect performance a little worse than these numbers then.

sora · Jan 5, 2015

Shamar Holtz :

The 2 7950s still give solid performance.

Shamar Holtz · Jan 5, 2015

sora :

Yeah I know, I could never deny that shit

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