Will FX6350 Bottleneck GTX 960?

aden2k15

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Hi, thanks for reading my post! Im buying a new pc, and well, need a bit of help. I bought the FX6350, currently have it, and bought the Rosewill Galaxy-02 ATX Mid Tower Case. I need help with a build, and a GOOD gpu that will run with this cpu and not bottleneck. I can oc a tad bit but not really fond of it. I will be buying a CPU cooler as well. I basically need an entire build from you guys thats under like $475 (not including case and cpu) that will give me good fps in game and not give me a hassle. Currently upgrading from gt 630 and i5 660 :( I heard 16gb ram might give me a change, but I do video editing, some Photoshop work, and mostly used for gaming (every day). My main focus is fitting everything in the case, and a gpu. Everything else im pretty good on, but if you'd like to give me build ideas than please do so! Sorry for this long, boring message. I could've made it so much shorter and less complicated. And final last question, if i buy gtx 960(which is a nice card and the r9 280 aswell), will it bottleneck my cpu? I would've loved to get the 8350 but I got my fx 6350 on sale for $88 so you cant really beat that!
 

clutchc

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My FX-6350 @ 4.6 GHz isn't bottlenecking my Evga GTX 960 FTW @ 1510 MHz. All the game benchmarks I've been able to run showed the GPU usage reaching 100% while the CPU usage remained below that. In most cases, well below that. So I would say you are fine.