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Muhamad Akmal Bin Hamzah

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Hi recently i Just got an offered from a friend selling his r9-390x devi watercool build .
Does it bottleneck my I3-4150 cpu? I got 600w psu tho..
But tbh it will bottleneck right? THe question is will it bottleneck like alot? Or can i just go along with the bottleneck for later upgrade of the cpu?
 
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I'm using a RX 470 and in CPU intensive games like Grand Theft Auto V and the punisher Crysis 3, I see real bottlenecks. I'm using an i3 4160, you can see some benchmarks I have done from the link in my signature.

Get the GPU if you think if its a good deal and later upgrade CPU or change the motherboard for 6th or 7th generation however you feel, it is going to bottleneck, yes. It also depends on the game you are playing.
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Current resolution right now is 1680 X 1050 . Currently playing battlefield 1 , battlefield 4 and crysis 3 , and other mainstream game such LoL etc. Is it fine if bottleneck by the cpu? I mean the fps drop only right?
Playing bf1 right now with r9 280x abit laggy in fps . Only able to play at medium only ... The rest spec is 600w , 8gb ram
Maybe the cpu is the one holding my performance?
 
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http://www.techspot.com/review/1267-battlefield-1-benchmarks/page4.html (CPU benchmarks)

http://www.techspot.com/review/1267-battlefield-1-benchmarks/page2.html (1080p benchmarks)

Because of issues with EA's Origin, Techspot wasn't able to do as much CPU testing as they'd hoped. However, based on how the Skylake core i3 compared to the Skylake core i5/i7 chips, you're not going to see as much of an improvement as if you had a core i5. Mainly because it looks like BF1 favors physical cores over HyperThreading.

Based on your system, I would assume that when you bump it up to Ultra settings you're ending up in the 40-50FPS range, correct? If so, then switching to the R9 390X should allow you to get up to 65-75 FPS on Ultra...but if you were to swap out the i3 for an i5 (something like an i5-4670, for example, assuming your motherboard could handle it), you could potentially be able to hit 90-100FPS on Ultra. Of course, that would depend on your monitor's refresh rate, but with VSync you could have a much smoother experience without running your GPU & CPU at maximum.
 
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Not a big bottleneck mostly depends the game you are playing, you will see big bottleneck while playing BF1 I believe ! The game uses more CPU than GPU
 
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I'm using a RX 470 and in CPU intensive games like Grand Theft Auto V and the punisher Crysis 3, I see real bottlenecks. I'm using an i3 4160, you can see some benchmarks I have done from the link in my signature.

Get the GPU if you think if its a good deal and later upgrade CPU or change the motherboard for 6th or 7th generation however you feel, it is going to bottleneck, yes. It also depends on the game you are playing.
 
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