Will the Athlon II X3 455 Bottleneck an R7 370 GPU? (4gb GDDR5)

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Greeting Tom'sHardware community!

I have a few questions regarding both AMD CPU's and GPU's alike.

I play somewhat demanding video games, such as CS:GO and Space Engineers, but I want to play titles like Fallout and GTA. I also do Photoshop, picture editing and digital drawing.

My current build:

Asrock 970m Pro3 MB
* AMD Athlon II X3 455 (not overclocked)
* XFX R7 250x 2gb DDR3
6gb RAM (1x4gb)(1x2gb)
400w Cooler Master Elite PSU
320gb WD SATA II HDD
(no optical drive. Weirdo.)

1. Should I upgrade my CPU to an FX 4350 or an FX 6300 before upgrading the GPU? If so, which one should I choose?

2. Will the Sapphire Radeon NITRO R7 370 4GB GDDR5 GPU be bottlenecked by my Athlon II X3 455?

3. Will the Sapphire Radeon NITRO R7 370 4GB GDDR5 GPU be bottlenecked by the FX 4350 or FX 6300?


Cheers!
 
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unreal9400
Yes, it will bottleneck.
I recommend going for FX 6300 with Sapphire Radeon NITRO R7 370.
You can buy the GPU first and stick with the Athlon II X3 455 for a while until you can save up to get the FX 6300.
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Well for 1 a r7 370 with 4 gb of vram is useless as it is a bit to weak to actually be able to fill that up without having abysmal frame rates so you might be able to get the next step up if you don't buy that one. you Athlon will bottleneck it for sure and an overclock wouldn't hurt. I really can't reccomend upgrading the am3 platform anymore but if you can snag a fx 8300 series (fx 8320,8350,8370,...) for dirtcheap then go for it. A fx 4350 isn't that good and will create bottlenecks a fx 6300 won't.
 
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Yes, it will bottleneck.
I recommend going for FX 6300 with Sapphire Radeon NITRO R7 370.
You can buy the GPU first and stick with the Athlon II X3 455 for a while until you can save up to get the FX 6300.
 
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To be honest, I would want my GPU to "bottleneck" my CPU else I'd have to upgrade both GPU and CPU later, as I have made this mistake before. I recommend GTX 950, or better yet GTX 960. Honestly, I purchased GTX 950 and wished I had bought the 960. But, I was upgrading from 750 Ti, not satisfied I'm now getting a used GTX 970 for the price of a new GTX 960 4GB. Soo.. Wanna buy my GTX 950? Lol.

R7 370 4GB vs GTX 950 2GB --> http://www.game-debate.com/gpu/index.php?gid=3109&gid2=2455&compare=radeon-r7-370-sapphire-nitro-4gb-edition-vs-geforce-gtx-950-2gb

Though I am curious to see a frame rate comparison on the R7 370 4GB vs GTX 950 2GB in specific titles such as GTAV and Assassin's Creed Syndicate, which both use more than 2GB VRAM.
 
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Little heads up game debate only compares the specs of the cards and there performance scores are usually wrong. A gtx 950 performs better than a r7 - 370.
 
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Yeah, I know. That's the only comparison of the two cards I could find, and even though the R7 has 4GB, the GTX 950 beats it in the specs on paper. Not that I doubt it, but I still want to see a frame rate comparison though just to bring hard evidence to the table instead of a game-debate comparison.

*I haven't found comparisons yet for GTAV or ACS, but here is Doom 4 compared with the two cards and GTX 950 is the clear winner: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXJVd_aiDbI
 
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