Will a overclocked Quad Core Q6700 bottleneck a modern GPU much?

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Patrick_19

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Overclocked at 3.3GHz will a Intel Core 2 Quad Core Q6700 bottleneck a Radeon 480 8gb much?

I'm waiting until the new AMD cpus come out until upgrading my motherboard and cpu but i really need to upgrade my GPU since the one I have right now is being cooled with 2 fans that are ziptied to my case (HD5770 with the stock cooler missing and a cpu cooler glued onto it and fans just blowing on it... its a mess. Oh and its overclocked. Runs at around 100 degrees celsius at times but hey its not stupid if it works been running like this for 6 months now ). Just wondering how much of a bottleneck is this processor when paired with a modern GPU.
 
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The Q6700 while old is about as fast as the AMD phenom II quad cores and the AMD APU's. While it would bottleneck a lot of the higher end cards a cheap videocard should be fine. Basically my CPU just has 2 extra cores over the Phenom II quad's and it works great with the R9 280. Basically thats about a 1050, 1050ti, or possible a 470. I suggest the 470 as its only $169 and would make a good video card to carry over to a new system when KabyLake and Zen come out at CES this January.
http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/85?vs=53

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150781
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Yes it will, quite a bit. :(
Zen isn't worth holding out for, its going to be another 6 months AT LEAST, likely longer.
Get an Intel i5 6600k or something, it'll still be futureproofed for a fair while to come, and will likely outperform AMD CPUs anyway.
Its not like AMD can skip 4 years of production on desktop CPUs and expect to top Intel right away. They'll likely focus on the budget end of the market first, with higher end options releasing later.
 
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The Q6700 while old is about as fast as the AMD phenom II quad cores and the AMD APU's. While it would bottleneck a lot of the higher end cards a cheap videocard should be fine. Basically my CPU just has 2 extra cores over the Phenom II quad's and it works great with the R9 280. Basically thats about a 1050, 1050ti, or possible a 470. I suggest the 470 as its only $169 and would make a good video card to carry over to a new system when KabyLake and Zen come out at CES this January.
http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/85?vs=53

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150781
 
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