Will my PC bottleneck

nathanj_15 · Jun 9, 2016

I am thinking about buying the AMD RX 480 for a cheaper graphics card to play games like GTA 5, DOOM and Fallout 4 to name a few games all on 1920/1080p. I would like to play them on medium to high settings (ultra would be amazing and I would love my PC until the day I die) however I am worried my PC would bottleneck. Can someone help specs are below:

Specs of my PC:
Here are my specs:
Motherboard: MSI A68HM-E33 v2
GPU: Nvidia GT 9800
CPU: AMD Athlon X4 860k (Black Edition)
Ram: Kingston Hyper X 8gb
Power Supply: EVGA 500W 80 plus
OS: Windows 10

Thanks: Nathan

cdrkf · Jun 9, 2016

nathanj_15 :

The 860K isn't a bad gaming processor. It might hold back an RX480 a little, but should still be playable imo.

People worry too much about a bottleneck- and to be clear there is *always* a bottleneck in every system ever made. It's just normally the graphics card is the bottleneck. If you buy a much faster graphics card than your cpu, then it shifts over to the cpu side, meaning you might get slightly lower performance than the graphics card is capable of.

I'd personally get the RX480 and see how I get on, chances are it'l be fine, and you can always upgrade the cpu later if needed (although if you do you will need a new mobo as well as not really anything worth upgrading to on that platform).

nathanj_15 · Jun 9, 2016

cdrkf :

nathanj_15 :

The 860K isn't a bad gaming processor. It might hold back an RX480 a little, but should still be playable imo.

People worry too much about a bottleneck- and to be clear there is *always* a bottleneck in every system ever made. It's just normally the graphics card is the bottleneck. If you buy a much faster graphics card than your cpu, then it shifts over to the cpu side, meaning you might get slightly lower performance than the graphics card is capable of.

I'd personally get the RX480 and see how I get on, chances are it'l be fine, and you can always upgrade the cpu later if needed (although if you do you will need a new mobo as well as not really anything worth upgrading to on that platform).

Thank you I really appreciate the answer

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