Will It Bottleneck? Questions about getting a new graphics card.

scrunchyhairbow · Feb 17, 2015

Hello people of Tom's Hardware!,

I'm looking for some guidance as I have been out of the PC game for a long time. I've had my current build for some years now and I'm wanting to upgrade my graphics card and I was wondering if It would be worth it or if my CPU would bottleneck the card. I'm considering the Nvidia GTX 970. Here's my current hardware configuration.

AMD Phemon II X6 1075T 3.0GHz ( No overclocking standard heatsink)
8.00 GB PNY 1600 clock RAM
500 GB seagate HDD
Gigabyte GA-890GFXA-UD5 motherboard
Nvidia GTX 460SE
OCZ 600 Watt modular Power supply
I was wondering if I did upgrade would I have performance issues based on the age of my hardware? Will my CPU slow my card down etc? Also I plan on rebuilding after this summer, I just have the money to upgrade my graphics card and figured I'd give it a go. Is the GTX 970 a solid card to transfer over to my new build as well? ( I'll most likley buy another one and SLI)

Any help would be greatly appreciated. I know I have a lot of questions, I'm just nervous and don't want to make the wrong decision, I know the people here are very knowledgeable so I figured this is where I would go. Thanks for reading.

Robbie

mrhippo900 · Feb 17, 2015

With a phenom, a 970 will most certainly bottleneck. An 8350 (Like mine) would be the best option.

Coolboy951 · Feb 17, 2015

scrunchyhairbow :

Hello people of Tom's Hardware!,

I'm looking for some guidance as I have been out of the PC game for a long time. I've had my current build for some years now and I'm wanting to upgrade my graphics card and I was wondering if It would be worth it or if my CPU would bottleneck the card. I'm considering the Nvidia GTX 970. Here's my current hardware configuration.

AMD Phemon II X6 1075T 3.0GHz ( No overclocking standard heatsink)
8.00 GB PNY 1600 clock RAM
500 GB seagate HDD
Gigabyte GA-890GFXA-UD5 motherboard
Nvidia GTX 460SE
OCZ 600 Watt modular Power supply
I was wondering if I did upgrade would I have performance issues based on the age of my hardware? Will my CPU slow my card down etc? Also I plan on rebuilding after this summer, I just have the money to upgrade my graphics card and figured I'd give it a go. Is the GTX 970 a solid card to transfer over to my new build as well? ( I'll most likley buy another one and SLI)

Any help would be greatly appreciated. I know I have a lot of questions, I'm just nervous and don't want to make the wrong decision, I know the people here are very knowledgeable so I figured this is where I would go. Thanks for reading.

Robbie

yes it will the phenom series is old now and will bottleneck most powerful cards nowadays, i would recommend overclocking it up to 3.5 to reduce the bottleneckes but you will still get bottlenecks

mrhippo900 · Feb 17, 2015

I recently upgraded from a 6300 knowing it would bottleneck with my choice of GPU, I had no choice but to get an 8350 and overclock it a little, that way i wouldn't have problems with performance.

Derza10 · Feb 17, 2015

Yes the GTX 970 is a solid card and will transfer well into a new build in a few months.

scrunchyhairbow · Feb 17, 2015

mrhippo900 :

Would it be worth it to even get it? How much performance drop would I see? Will I see any improvement at all?

mrhippo900 · Feb 17, 2015

scrunchyhairbow :

With CPU intensive games, you might lose a significant amount of FPS.

coozie7 · Feb 17, 2015

^ But gain a huge amount of FPS with the faster card.
If you were going to keep the current rig I'd suggest aiming a little lower, (the current CPU isn't THAT bad TBH), somewhere around the GTX770/R9 280/280X level would be a nice match, but if you're going to carry the upgrade over, don't worry about losing performance now, you're not really making the purchase for this system, but the new one, so the faster the better.

mrhippo900 · Feb 17, 2015

coozie7 :

Regardless you will still get a bottleneck.

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