AMD FX-8320 and GTX 1060
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that is the setup that i have and it works great. on certain games such as Arma you will see poor performance, but for almost all AAA games you should be just fine. Ive monitored my usages and both the CPU and GPU can max out generally (CPU only at stock 3.5 as well). You wont have any problems, and you have a very solid card for when you can upgrade your CPU 
(i've been playing the battlefield 1 beta at ultra 1080p 60fps solid)
(i've been playing the battlefield 1 beta at ultra 1080p 60fps solid)
penn919
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Well now it seems you're asking an entirely different question. The card will not "bottleneck" the CPU because CPUs function independently from the GPU for the most part. When running modern games, The Fx 8320 will be fully utilized because the GTX 1060 can easily keep up.
Now the FX-8320 will bottleneck a 1060 to a small degree regardless of the overclock. You might want to consider a haswell Core i5 if you don't want any bottleneck at all.
I wouldn't worry too much about it though especially with a 4GHz overclock.
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It depends on the games. Some games that are CPU depended and rely heavily on IPC will be bottlenecked because AMD FX CPUs are notorious for having bad IPC. On the other hand, games that are heavily multi-threaded may not get bottlenecked by your CPU. In either case you should shift the load to your GPU as much as you can by using the highest graphic settings that produce playable frame rates. Finally overclocking will definitely help.
As a side note, future games that are DX12 based will not get bottlenecked by your CPU as much but then again this is more true for AMD than NVIDIA cards. So you should definitely consider getting an AMD RX480 as an alternative GPU.
As a side note, future games that are DX12 based will not get bottlenecked by your CPU as much but then again this is more true for AMD than NVIDIA cards. So you should definitely consider getting an AMD RX480 as an alternative GPU.
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that is the setup that i have and it works great. on certain games such as Arma you will see poor performance, but for almost all AAA games you should be just fine. Ive monitored my usages and both the CPU and GPU can max out generally (CPU only at stock 3.5 as well). You wont have any problems, and you have a very solid card for when you can upgrade your CPU (i've been playing the battlefield 1 beta at ultra 1080p 60fps solid)
(i've been playing the battlefield 1 beta at ultra 1080p 60fps solid)
R4DIO4CT1VE :
that is the setup that i have and it works great. on certain games such as Arma you will see poor performance, but for almost all AAA games you should be just fine. Ive monitored my usages and both the CPU and GPU can max out generally (CPU only at stock 3.5 as well). You wont have any problems, and you have a very solid card for when you can upgrade your CPU (i've been playing the battlefield 1 beta at ultra 1080p 60fps solid)
(i've been playing the battlefield 1 beta at ultra 1080p 60fps solid)
So my setup with 4.0 ghz and soon to be gtx 1060 will not bottleneck bf1 thats really the only reason im thinking of upgrading atm
I have got a fx-8320 @4Ghz and a gtx 1060.
Those are my GPU usage:
ArmA 3 : 10% with steam launch options for fx-8320 | 45% with steam launch options and some adjustments in nvidia control panel (CPU:38%)
Dark Souls 3: 77% (CPU:30%)
Evolve Stage 2: 80% (CPU: 45%)
GTA V: 80% (CPU: 60%)
ArmA 3 stays on 40fps, while the other reach 60fps.
Those are my GPU usage:
ArmA 3 : 10% with steam launch options for fx-8320 | 45% with steam launch options and some adjustments in nvidia control panel (CPU:38%)
Dark Souls 3: 77% (CPU:30%)
Evolve Stage 2: 80% (CPU: 45%)
GTA V: 80% (CPU: 60%)
ArmA 3 stays on 40fps, while the other reach 60fps.
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R4DIO4CT1VE :
that is the setup that i have and it works great. on certain games such as Arma you will see poor performance, but for almost all AAA games you should be just fine. Ive monitored my usages and both the CPU and GPU can max out generally (CPU only at stock 3.5 as well). You wont have any problems, and you have a very solid card for when you can upgrade your CPU (i've been playing the battlefield 1 beta at ultra 1080p 60fps solid)
(i've been playing the battlefield 1 beta at ultra 1080p 60fps solid)
Will that setup work fine with cpu intensive games like H1Z1? It's one of my most played shooters right now and I need better performance in that game since the devs cant figure out the optimization and the memory leaks.
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