Will a8-3870k Apu bottleneck my GTX 660 TI ?

Yeah I know what you are saying but I recently bought the new card (660 ti) and I only have like 50 bucks left lol. So i really cant afford another mobo. Just wanted to see if i get the a8 3870k and oc it. Do you think it will be a worth upgrade from a6 3600 apu?

I'd save up until you can afford a new motherboard and CPU. Yes, I'd shoot for i5 in your situation.

The AMD llanos basically a the same design as the Athlon II and Phenom II but with a graphics chip on the die. The difference between A IIs and P IIs is that the A IIs don't have an L3 cache (neither do Llanos), depending on the program or game this can affect performance anywhere from 5 to 25 percent. So yea, the 660 TI is not the best pairing with a Llano, they work best as low end systems that don't need discrete graphics cards.

It might, the 660 ti is faster than the old 580GTX, which already could push a stock 965.

Keep your stuff, live with the card being more or less bottleneck'ed and save that money for a new mobo + CPU. In your case, I'd go Intel.

Best answer selected by catchme247.