I7 4790k 8GB RAM and GTX 760 Bottleneck?

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Hello, I am going to be buying an I7 4790K very soon to replace my heating, otherwise known as the FX 8350 :p I am going to be keeping the GTX 760 2GB and the 8GB of RAM untill I have enough to upgrade to 16GB of RAM. Now I know that it will bottleneck, but is it going to noticable via gaming? I am planning on playing ArmA 3 (One of the main reasons why I'm buying this CPU, that and better performance all round) BF1 once released and a few other titles.

So like I said above, my main question is how badly is the bottleneck going to be?

Another question so that I don't have to setup another thread, would the Hyper 212 Evo be a good bet on cooling with my current set-up?
 
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if you plan on upgrading the CPU now and the GPU to something like the GTX 1070 later then by all means go for it, honestly with your build I would go for the GPU first as you will see the biggest performance increase in ArmA 3 by doing so. if your main game was League then I would say upgrade the CPU first as that would have the bigger impact. as previously mentioned if you...
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What bottlenecks what? The CPU will never bottleneck any single GPU (at least for now). A GPU won't (in fact, it cannot) bottleneck a CPU. The FPS will be the same with the power the GPU has. The FPS won't drop because a CPU is much stronger. Proof: Integrated Graphics.
 
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neither your current or that New CPU will bottleneck that GPU, if I were you I would upgrade the GPU rather than your CPU. the Hyper 212 Evo is a decent cooler but its not amazing ide say go for the cryorig C7
 
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Its gonna be very noticeable. you will likely see your 760 hitting full load in everything while the I7 is not working to hard. Upgrading that GPU when you can would be advisable. Some may think a GPU upgrade would be good first, but then you would hold that GPU back. After all, the I3 6100 can go toe to toe with the FX 8350 in most games, even in crysis 3 which is as CPU bound as it is GPU as a example. Down the road you will want to get something like a GTX 1060/1070 to compliment that I7. (I personally use a I7 4790k @ 4.4GHz with a GTX 1070 and 970 for PhysX.)
 
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That GPU is the limit of what a FX 8350 won't bottleneck, and even then there are games that 8350 could hold back the 760.
It would be wiser for him to upgrade the CPU first. The FX 8350 has been showing its age for a WHILE now.
 
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where did you get that information from? I would love to see some hard numbers about this because this is not true. the FX-8350 while not an amazing processor is able to run cards like the GTX 970 or the R9 380x to get 60+ fps on 1080p I know that from personal experience as that was my setup before Skylake came out and I got my I5-6600k. What you're saying just seems like false information due to personal experience and available benchmarks.
 
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Look around on the forums here. SO MANY people are stating it isn't that great of a CPU with benchmarks to back it up. I'm positive i can name off some games that the FX 8350 is a bottleneck in at 1080p if that is what you want. Open your eyes man. even a I3 6100 can go toe to toe with that dinosaur. A CPU with 2 cores 4 threads is locking horns with and in some cases beating a 4 module 8 thread cpu like the FX 8350. Chances are the OP would go with Something from Nvidia Pascal or AMD Vega for a GPU upgrade. and the FX 8350 would bottleneck any of those GPU's. Even a GTX 1060 would suffer from some bottlenecks by a FX 8350. Would you pair a FX 8350 with a video card that can spit out GTX 980 level performance? I know i wouldn't.
 
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Right hold on, can we just skip the arguments a second, Like I said, ArmA 3 is my main game and I know AMD is horrible for running it. So some of you say to do the upgrade, others don't. I plan on getting a 107-.80 at christmas you see (Sorry forgot to add it) so I thought that alongside the I7 that would be a good PC, maybe even an upgrade with RAM also.
 
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if you plan on upgrading the CPU now and the GPU to something like the GTX 1070 later then by all means go for it, honestly with your build I would go for the GPU first as you will see the biggest performance increase in ArmA 3 by doing so. if your main game was League then I would say upgrade the CPU first as that would have the bigger impact. as previously mentioned if you plan on upgrading CPU and RAM you should definatly go for a Skylake system you could get a Z170 motherboard I5-6600k and some ram and eventually pair that with a GTX 1070 and you will get at least 60+fps in any game in ultra 1080.
 
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