Bottleneck or compatibility issues?

Jonas_22 · Aug 1, 2016

Current setup
500w 12v1+12v2=32A
AMD Athlon X4 640 @3150MHz[5% OC]
EAH Asus4850 512mb GDDR3 @700MHz, 1100MHz
ASRock N68C-GS4 FX [PCIE 1.1 x16 SLOT]

Two questions:
Is there a bottleneck currently in my rig, like cpu or the pcie slot?
Im planning to buy RX 460, if it won't have a 6pin will the 1.1 x16 slot supply enough power and will there be any bottlenecks with my rig?

Rogue Leader · Aug 1, 2016

Some PCIe 3.0 GPUs do not work on PCIe 1.1 slots. 1.0 they almost always do not work, 1.1 is hit or miss.

That said your entire system is a bottleneck. I would not waste the money on an RX 460 for that system. To be honest you can't even play a game that would remotely push that GPU, if it even worked.

EDIT: I realized I missed something on your board and that is that it will take an AM3 or AM3+ CPU and DDR3 memory. If you wanted to use an RX 460 with it I highly reccomend replacing the processor with something more modern (the best AM3 would be something like a Phenom II X4 965, or a newer AM3+ FX processor such as the FX-6300, I would recommend against any of the higher power FX processors, and base don the CPU support list the 6300 is about as high as it will go), and I'm not sure how much memory you have but if you go AM3+ you need to use your DDR3 slots which means replacing your memory with at least 8gb of DDR3.

Personally I wouldn't throw that much money at that board, but you could and it should work fine assuming the RX 460 works in that slot. You could always test that first and then upgrade the rest after you confirm it works.

Jonas_22 · Aug 1, 2016

Rogue Leader :

Some PCIe 3.0 GPUs do not work on PCIe 1.1 slots. 1.0 they almost always do not work, 1.1 is hit or miss.

That said your entire system is a bottleneck. I would not waste the money on an RX 460 for that system. To be honest you can't even play a game that would remotely push that GPU, if it even worked.

EDIT: I realized I missed something on your board and that is that it will take an AM3 or AM3+ CPU and DDR3 memory. If you wanted to use an RX 460 with it I highly reccomend replacing the processor with something more modern (the best AM3 would be something like a Phenom II X4 965, or a newer AM3+ FX processor such as the FX-6300, I would recommend against any of the higher power FX processors, and base don the CPU support list the 6300 is about as high as it will go), and I'm not sure how much memory you have but if you go AM3+ you need to use your DDR3 slots which means replacing your memory with at least 8gb of DDR3.

Personally I wouldn't throw that much money at that board, but you could and it should work fine assuming the RX 460 works in that slot. You could always test that first and then upgrade the rest after you confirm it works.

and how about the current system? any bottleneck?

Rogue Leader · Aug 1, 2016

Yes, as I mentioned in the first part of my post your CPU and ram are a huge bottleneck. To the point the card is almost not worth buying unless you upgrade, and its questionable if it will even work anyway.

Jonas_22 · Aug 1, 2016

Rogue Leader :

thanks for a lot of answers buddy, just one more ok?
so even my x4 640 overclocked and 8gb of ddr2 [355mhz] are failing to keep up with my 4850 512mb?
im not playing games like withcer 3, im playing league of legends, csgo [these games are not running stable, i want stable 60 fps]

Rogue Leader · Aug 1, 2016

Jonas_22 :

4850 is probably a good match for that. The fact its not keeping up with LOL tells me your CPU and memory is dragging things down.

The RX 460 will be bottlenecked, its capable of more than 60 fps in CSGO and LOL easily, but your CPU and memory will drag them down severely. That processor is 6 years old already and was a budget processor at the time of its release. It will definitely play better than what you have, but I don't see any chance of nearly 60 fps.

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