Gigabyte GTX 1060 G1 Gaming & AMD FX-6100 CPU

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Hi All,

Yesterday I purchased a Gigabyte GTX 1060 G1 Gamaing 6gb card. My current CPU is a AMD FX-6100. I wanted to see what sort of FPS I would get on the Witcher 3 with settings all maxed out at Ultra. I got around 55-58 FPS on average, I've seen people with this graphics card getting around 69 FPS on average. Do you think the CPU (yes very old now) will be causing a bottleneck?

GPU - set on O/C mode - no manual overclocking done
16gb of DDR3 Ram
CPU - Overclocked to 4.0 ghz

Thanks in advance.
 
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I use an rx 470 and an fx 6300 clocked to 4.3 ghz.
Played Overwatch and some single player games on high/ultra, and got normal fps in all of them.

If you want to get the maximum from your card, the CPU is a bottleneck.
Don't know the prices where you're from, but here an fx 6300 costs ~100 euro and a gtx 1060 costs more than 300 euro, which is a big price difference.

The fx-6100 probably fares a bit worse than the fx 6300 but shouldn't be that much.

If you want stable fps and less drops, buy an i5/i7, preferably Haswell or Skylake(or the new Kaby lake) or you could wait for AMD Zen to come out in a few months if you aren't too unhappy with the FPS you get now. It may be worth the wait.

And yes it's coming from an FX owner, but the...
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I use an rx 470 and an fx 6300 clocked to 4.3 ghz.
Played Overwatch and some single player games on high/ultra, and got normal fps in all of them.

If you want to get the maximum from your card, the CPU is a bottleneck.
Don't know the prices where you're from, but here an fx 6300 costs ~100 euro and a gtx 1060 costs more than 300 euro, which is a big price difference.

The fx-6100 probably fares a bit worse than the fx 6300 but shouldn't be that much.

If you want stable fps and less drops, buy an i5/i7, preferably Haswell or Skylake(or the new Kaby lake) or you could wait for AMD Zen to come out in a few months if you aren't too unhappy with the FPS you get now. It may be worth the wait.

And yes it's coming from an FX owner, but the simple truth is at the moment intel will give you more stable fps and better fps, amd will be good performance/dollar and it's not trash like most people here will say, clocks nicely and can serve you well if you use a 60hz monitor and dont' require more than 60fps.

I've had some little frame drops in some newer games also, without the GPU using full power, but nothing that affects overall performance of the CPU, and by that meaning if i get fps that doesn't drop more than a few times under 55 fps while gaming on a 60hz monitor i won't sell it off and buy a 200 euro processor so that it gets to a stable 60 instead of a 60 with a few drops to 55~.

TL: DR
Will it bottleneck? Hell yes.
For a 60hz monitor is it worth to change it if the fps is 55-58? Depends on you.
Will you benefit from a Skylake/Haswell/Kaby lake i5/i7 or AMD Zen when it comes out? Yes.

 
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Well I have been looking at getting myself an i5 6600K - so that means new Mo-bo and RAM. But then again no matter what I decide to upgrade to Zen or Skylake I will have to upgrade those components regardless. I was thinking about waiting for Zen as well and I think I might still do that because the games I wish to play right now are still playable and look good. I guess I'll just put up with the bottleneck for now and upgrade when Zen comes out early next year.
 
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