When building my first gaming PC, I seemed to have made a mistake. At the time, I didn't even know about bottlenecking. I soon learned that my AMD FX 4350 was not capable of keeping up with my RX 470. I've been doing some research and I just have a few questions.
1.) Should I buy an Intel chip and motherboard, or are they're any AM3 processors that can support the 470?
2.) Should I just wait for the Zen chipset to release from AMD?
3.) Will using my PC with a bottleneck like this damage it's components in anyway, other than performance?
I first noticed the bottleneck when I was playing GTA. Before that I'd been playing fairly light games, a few years old. My friend has FX 4350 and a GTX 750 TI. He was running the game at 1080p, Normal-low settings, and was pulling a stable 60 FPS. I thought mine was bottlenecking because I set my settings exactly like his just the test it out, and my framerate still couldn't get a stable 40. I need to know what I should do and if I should go Intel. I don't know Intel processors and I just don't want to spend money on something that won't solve the bottleneck.
1.) Should I buy an Intel chip and motherboard, or are they're any AM3 processors that can support the 470?
2.) Should I just wait for the Zen chipset to release from AMD?
3.) Will using my PC with a bottleneck like this damage it's components in anyway, other than performance?
I first noticed the bottleneck when I was playing GTA. Before that I'd been playing fairly light games, a few years old. My friend has FX 4350 and a GTX 750 TI. He was running the game at 1080p, Normal-low settings, and was pulling a stable 60 FPS. I thought mine was bottlenecking because I set my settings exactly like his just the test it out, and my framerate still couldn't get a stable 40. I need to know what I should do and if I should go Intel. I don't know Intel processors and I just don't want to spend money on something that won't solve the bottleneck.
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