Should I Care About Bottlenecking? GTX 1070 w/ FX 8350

djvilas · Nov 19, 2016

Current Specs:
FX-8350
GTX 750ti 2gb OC
Asrock 970 Pro3R2.0
EVGA 500w
HyperX Fury 16gb RAM (2x8)
Usage: Gaming, Video & Photo Editing, 3D Animation & Rendering

Hello.

Once again I'm looking into upgrading my gaming PC and once again I find myself returning here for some advice. This place is a godsend.

I'm going to be getting a GTX 1070 and I'm trying to keep my upgrade costs as low as possible (broke uni student). What I wanted to know was would my current rig be able to handle a 1070? I'm interested in running games at 1080p 60FPS only. After some research (YouTube comments) it seems that my current CPU 8350 will bottleneck and thus reduce the performance of the 1070 and not allow it to reach it's full potential. My question is, should I care? I'm only interested in getting everything to run at a smooth 60FPS. I don't care if it's 100, or 60fps. As long as it's not lower. Are there any other negative sides of bottlenecking besides the fps drops?

In case you do highly recommend that I upgrade my CPU I am considering getting either an i5-6500 or i5-6600k. Preferably I'd like to go without getting a CPU upgrade, but if necessary would any of the two mentioned above suffice a 1070? Also, I've no clue to how motherboards vary besides extra connections; would my current motherboard work fine a 1070?

Summary:

1. Can I get constant 60FPS 1080p with a 1070 and an FX-8350?
2. What about 6500 or 6600k?
3. Current mobo compatible with 1070?

Thank you for reading and any help is highly appreciated!

13thmonkey · Nov 19, 2016

The bottlenecks will not effect the max or avg framerates, but the minimum frame rates (which you want to be as high as possible), i'd suggest that the 8350 will struggle to maintain good minimum frame rates. BUT this is independent of the GPU, with a lesser GPU the minimum and the average will be closer together and hence you won't notice at much.

drkatz42 · Nov 19, 2016

A quick search yields some favorable results for the 8350 paired with the gtx 1070. Definitely no down side to purchasing the 1070 and put it through it's paces paired with your current CPU.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ds0jCY4m9os

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbGXu_QilLk

djvilas · Nov 19, 2016

drkatz42 :

Yes I did check out several benchmarks and they all performed well enough, but my main concern is could there be any other downsides like CPU damage or what not.

turkey3_scratch · Nov 19, 2016

djvilas :

drkatz42 :

Yes I did check out several benchmarks and they all performed well enough, but my main concern is could there be any other downsides like CPU damage or what not.

Come again? CPU damage?

djvilas · Nov 19, 2016

turkey3_scratch :

Well I don't know what could potentially happen. I'd imagine that a CPU that's working at close to 100% of it's power for hours on end could wield some long term damage. Despite doing a Computer Science degree, I'm not that interested in hardware as you can tell!

turkey3_scratch · Nov 19, 2016

djvilas :

turkey3_scratch :

Well I don't know what could potentially happen. I'd imagine that a CPU that's working at close to 100% of it's power for hours on end could wield some long term damage. Despite doing a Computer Science degree, I'm not that interested in hardware as you can tell!

Neh it'll be fine. They last super long.

Unolocogringo · Nov 19, 2016

djvilas :

turkey3_scratch :

Well I don't know what could potentially happen. I'd imagine that a CPU that's working at close to 100% of it's power for hours on end could wield some long term damage. Despite doing a Computer Science degree, I'm not that interested in hardware as you can tell!

If properly cooled a CPU can run 100% load for a very long time.
I have several that run 100% load 24/7/365. Pair of 5420e@3.0 for 3.5 years now and a 960t unlocked to 6 cores@3.6 for almost 5 years.

djvilas · Nov 19, 2016

Unolocogringo :

djvilas :

If properly cooled a CPU can run 100% load for a very long time.
I have several that run 100% load 24/7/365. Pair of 5420e@3.0 for 3.5 years now and a 960t unlocked to 6 cores@3.6 for almost 5 years.

That's reassuring thanks! Also just so I don't have to make a new thread, do you know if my MOBO will work fine with the 1070? MOBO's I'm absolutely clueless about.

turkey3_scratch · Nov 19, 2016

djvilas :

Unolocogringo :

That's reassuring thanks! Also just so I don't have to make a new thread, do you know if my MOBO will work fine with the 1070? MOBO's I'm absolutely clueless about.

Yep. You don't find motherboard and GPU incompatibilities with any recent consumer hardware.

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