AMD FX 4170 4.20ghz with GTX 1060, bottleneck?

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Subject says it all!
It's a slightly older processor, I'm expecting it to bottleneck of course. But I can't afford to upgrade both gpu and cpu and I'm using a 750 Ti, figured the gpu was more important and will give the best noticeable difference. I thank you in advance for advice.

Off the back of this, what would you upgrade the CPU too on a budget to help support the Gpu.
 
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It would bottleneck, but it would depend on the game for the severity of the bottleneck. I would buy the 1060 now, and upgrade the CPU after zen is released. If you dont like the performance when you get the 1060, i suggest a h170 motherboard and i3 6100 combo.
 
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Thank you gamerk316 & LookItsRain,

Currently Battlefield 4 and Guild Wars 2 are my top 2 but I am looking to branch out into say Witcher 3.

I will take a look at the FX-8 series, would intel work better with an Geforce card?
 
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i have an 8350 with a gtx 1060, i get bottleneck in almost every game, so just imagine your 4170.

and dont buy another amd processor, save money to an i5

 
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Thank you guys,

So I will look at an i5 I think. any suggestions? Anything surrounding £100-£180 is a suggestion.

Also, what is the difference with Haswell and Skylake?

Is this suitable? '' Core i5-6400 2.70GHz (Skylake) Socket LGA1151 Processor - Retail ''

 
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haswell is 4th gen from intel, Skylake is the current gen an 6th gen from intel.
If you have the funds id go with a i5 6500 3.2GHz. its £177.90 on amazon. Great cpu form gaming

 
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Brilliant, I appreciate you taking the time out to give advice.

I think that sounds like a fair asking price. I will be getting the GPU first and then look at the CPU, pretty excited to be upgrading from the 750Ti!

 
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I'll be honest, for Guild Wars 2 you'll likely get a lot more mileage out of a CPU upgrade. It's horrendously CPU bottlenecked, and a Core i3 will likely provide close to double your previous framerates. In Battlefield 4, you'd see gains from both, but my nod would be toward the GPU upgrade.

Credentials: Owner of a Core i3, Core i5, Richland APU and FX 8 core, and player of both Guild Wars 2 and Battlefield.
 
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I can attest to that.I played Guild Wars 2 for years. Just recently moved on from it but a while back i upgraded one of my older rigs from an i3 to a i5. That alone showed a massive jump in fps in GW2, with no change to the gpu.Im talking over 50+ fps increase.
 
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