Phenom x4 Bottle Neck?

[Soarixay]

Will my AMD Phenom x4 Deneb 3500 (4k OC) bottle neck a 6850x6870 Frankenfire?

 

[aicom]

What games will you be playing?

 

[Soarixay]

I will be getting Skyrim, BF3 and all that good stuff eventually. My most recent games will be Batman Arkham City and Wticher 2 after I set everytyhing up.

 

[noob2222]

In limited situations, but generally no. 64 player bf3 maps will tax the cpu, but will still maintain decent fps.

 

[Soarixay]

Okay thats great! Can you specify the limited situations if it is simple enough? If not then it's cool cause I would probably take a bat to it before I figured out the problem anyway. LOL

 

[Rockdpm]

You should be fine. I run my Phenom X4 980 at stock 3.7 and two 560 ti's and don't get a bottleneck

 

[PCgamer81]

Sorry to say, but your CPU would probably bottleneck Intel HD 3000.

Kidding.

But seriously. I would consider switching to Intel if you are going to be gaming.

 

[Soarixay]

Your answer isn't relevant to me at the moment but thank you for sharing your love for intel. I'm stuck with what I have and all I would need is a mobo that can crossfire the two.

 

[Soarixay]

Best answer selected by Soarixay.

 

[PCgamer81]

You should be fine. I run my Phenom X4 980 at stock 3.7 and two 560 ti's and don't get a bottleneck

How do you know? Have you tried overclocking?

Just because you get good (or even great) performance doesn't mean there isn't a bottleneck. The key is to overclock until incremental gains in performance are no longer noticed with each subsequent overclock. I find it hard to believe that two high-end GPUs are performing at their maximum potential with a 980 black at stock, when my two 6970s (which just barely beat out your two GPUs, mind you) are bottlenecked by my Sandy Bridge up to 4.20GHz.