Will my AMD phenom ii x4 980 bottleneck my GTX 1050 ti

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I was wondering if my AMD phenom ii x4 980 would bottleneck my 1050 ti, and if it does which it probably does because its a old cpu but one of the phenom ii x4, how much power would it be able to suck from the gpu? (i dont have the card yet just ordered it)
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CPU: AMD phenom ii x4 980
GPU: 1050 ti
HARDDRIVE: SATA 750GB 7.2k
PSU: EVGA 500W bronze
MOBO: H-RS880-uATX (Aloe)
 
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HamBown81
I would say that you will definitely see some restriction of that GPU. How much? It's kind of hard to say, it really depends on a lot of dynamic factors including your specific use-case.

I was recently messing with my old system to see what I could squeeze out of it. It is running a Phenom II X4 965 BE @ 3.8 GHz and an overclocked GTX 560Ti 448 core. The card is the EVGA Classified version and on air I was able to push it to 900 MHz core and 2325 MHz VRAM.

Playing Grand Theft Auto V, this much slower, much older GPU was getting bottlenecked to about 80% usage by the Phenom, at certain points.
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I would say that you will definitely see some restriction of that GPU. How much? It's kind of hard to say, it really depends on a lot of dynamic factors including your specific use-case.

I was recently messing with my old system to see what I could squeeze out of it. It is running a Phenom II X4 965 BE @ 3.8 GHz and an overclocked GTX 560Ti 448 core. The card is the EVGA Classified version and on air I was able to push it to 900 MHz core and 2325 MHz VRAM.

Playing Grand Theft Auto V, this much slower, much older GPU was getting bottlenecked to about 80% usage by the Phenom, at certain points.
 
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It really depends more on the games you play. More CPU intensive games will suffer some performance hits, however in most games you should be okay. Quite a while ago I paired a GTX 1060 with an Athlon 860k and even with such a weak processor I was still able to play games like Battlefront and COD:IW on high settings no problem. Games like GTA V and Battlefield 1 really wasn't a pleasant experience so in the end I upgraded my processor and motherboard to an Asus Prime B350 Pro and Ryzen 5 1600 for less then £350, so like I said it really depends on the games you wish to play but there are decent budget options to also consider if you wish to upgrade.
 
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