Gtx 1050 ti with fx8320 bottleneck?

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khawar Jamil

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Hi ,
Pc configuration
Cpu : fx 8320 8 core piledriver black
Motherboard : gigabyte ga 970 d3
Graphics card : zotac geforce 1050ti oc
Ssd :128gb
Ram:8gb
HD:WD blue 1 TB 7200rpm

I want to know whether my cpu will bottleneck my gpu and also can I overclock my cpu on this motherboard. If not then which cpu should I buy from amd coz if I switch to Intel then I have to change my mobo too which I want to wait out for a year or so .

Any help is appreciated thanks

 
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First, the bottleneck will not be that bad. You have a budget GPU, it would be foolish to pair a budget GPU with an expensive CPU. For the vast majority of games, you will see a much better performance increases by have a better GPU than CPU. So don't worry about the bottleneck.

As for overclocking, yes, you can overclock on your board and you should do it provided you have sufficient cooling. If you are using a stock cooler, then you will need to purchase a new cooler. A stock cooler will not be able to keep your 8320 cool enough for any reasonable overclock. But I would be leery of dumping any more money into that system as it is getting a little long in the tooth. The $30 you spend on a cooler is $30 you could put towards a...
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Those FX Cpus are old enough now that you are looking at @60% slower cores compared to a kabylake i7. If you figure games are designed for more modern cpus usage, that FX is going to have a hard time with anything cpu intensive. The actual gpu is almost irrelevant to the cpu performance.
So be prepared that in some games, that are gpu strong, you'll have decent fps, but in some that are highly single threaded and cpu intensive, you'll struggle.
 
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First, the bottleneck will not be that bad. You have a budget GPU, it would be foolish to pair a budget GPU with an expensive CPU. For the vast majority of games, you will see a much better performance increases by have a better GPU than CPU. So don't worry about the bottleneck.

As for overclocking, yes, you can overclock on your board and you should do it provided you have sufficient cooling. If you are using a stock cooler, then you will need to purchase a new cooler. A stock cooler will not be able to keep your 8320 cool enough for any reasonable overclock. But I would be leery of dumping any more money into that system as it is getting a little long in the tooth. The $30 you spend on a cooler is $30 you could put towards a new platform.

I would not spend any more money on your current platform. The AM3 platform is D-E-A-D. This means your next upgrade will require a new CPU/motherboard/RAM combination, which as you know, is not cheap. None of your current parts are compatible with any of the modern chipsets from AMD or Nvidia.

If you want to wait a year before changing your motherboard, I think that is perfectly fine as long as you are happy with the performance you are getting form your system. But again, I would not spend any money on RAM or CPU for your current motherboard as that would be throwing good money after bad.
 
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