Will my AMD FX6300 Overclocked to 4.8Ghz bottleneck a Gigabyte GTX 980?

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Will my AMD FX6300 Overclocked to 4.8Ghz bottleneck a Gigabyte GTX 980? and if so how badly? I cant upgrade for a while so i dont have many options.
 
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Depends on what you're playing, but the short answer is yes it will. Once you get beyond the GTX 970, and R9 390 performance bracket you pretty much have to switch to Intel as AMD simply can't keep up with the really high end GPUs with any of their existing CPUs, even with really high overclocks. If you're playing something very CPU heavy like Arma 3, Fallout 4 Grand Theft Auto V, or the recent Assassin's Creed games you'll hit a pretty big bottleneck. If you're playing less CPU intensive titles you'll still get decent framerates, but your card still won't be working at its full potential.

If you're looking for a GPU upgrade right now, GTX 970 and R9 390 are the absolute best cards you should be looking at unless you plan on...
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Depends on what you're playing, but the short answer is yes it will. Once you get beyond the GTX 970, and R9 390 performance bracket you pretty much have to switch to Intel as AMD simply can't keep up with the really high end GPUs with any of their existing CPUs, even with really high overclocks. If you're playing something very CPU heavy like Arma 3, Fallout 4 Grand Theft Auto V, or the recent Assassin's Creed games you'll hit a pretty big bottleneck. If you're playing less CPU intensive titles you'll still get decent framerates, but your card still won't be working at its full potential.

If you're looking for a GPU upgrade right now, GTX 970 and R9 390 are the absolute best cards you should be looking at unless you plan on transplanting your card to a new build within the foreseeable future. Even the 970 and 390 will get bottlenecked in more CPU heavy titles, but you should hopefully be able to get most of the performance out of one of them with your current setup.
 
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Battlefield 4 is one of the very few games that is threaded enough for AMD processors to do reasonably well, and their weak per core performance isn't as much of a hindrance compared to most other games. You probably wouldn't lose that much for that particular game, and with your overclock you should be able to stay above 60FPS. Now if you're targeting 120 or 144 FPS constant, then you might run into trouble with the AMD CPU as that extra bit of performance might make the difference in achieving such a high target.
 
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This man speaks the truth with that cpu stick to the r9380x its will at least almost push it as hard as it can be
 
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The i5 4460 is a decent budget quad core Intel CPU, but it has been discontinued and probably won't be on store shelves for too much longer, so keep that in mind if you're not going to do a platform upgrade for a while. For the newer Skylake chips, the i5 6500 is a good option, and actually can be overclocked with certain Z170 motherboards. AMD is releasing their new Zen processors late this year, so if you aren't planning to build for another 10 months or so, that might be an option if they're any good, it's far too early to tell at this point.
 
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Awesome thanks allot i probably wont be able to upgrade for at least 5 months. Also will the FX8350 bottleneck it at all?

 
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Sorry to reply to this thread after so long, I know it is old. This site is not what it used to be. The people giving you answers to this question are grossly misinformed, Intel biased, or do not have the proper level of affinity with technology to give you a proper answer.

The answer to you question is...YES, an FX 6300 will certainly be able to be paired with a GTX 980. The FX 6300 is a CPU that can easily best any I3 on the market, and can also best any low end I5. I have read on this site people suggesting an I5 4660 as CPU for the 980, a cpu that ranks below FX 6300 according to Furmark. I have seen the realtime benchmarks of an FX 6300, stock, running along side a 980 and was shocked that in some titles the 980 was taxed to a 98% GPU load while the CPU load was in the high 80% range!

Of course, the games were running in 1080P. Running in a higher resolution for newer titles would probably require an upgrade. In the end, you can run the FX 6300 stock, or you can overclock it, as I would recommend, no higher than 4.0 Ghz on the stock cooler, 4.1 - 4.3 for an aftermarket fan based solution, or up to 5.0 Ghz with a water cooled solution. With the OC you should have more flexibility with 1440p resolutions, but I would still be selective. Lastly, OC the CPU (or not), but if you must OC the GPU- make sure it is a slight one, under 10% efficiency. The reason I say this is because the stock GTX 980 is the most powerful card you can pair to a stock FX 6300. A higher tier card would see the effects of unoptimized hardware values. So if you OC one, it might be suggested to OC the other. The factory OC on a 9800 doesn't affect things, in that regard, to cause concern. Just remenber to keep the CPU and GPU balanced if you go around optimizing things, as you don't have tons of headroom. Hope this helps, sorry I'm so late.
 
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