Amd Athlon X4 II 631 @2.6ghz bottleneck?

[danvic123]

Will my cpu bottleneck my gpu? and is it good enough for intense games like bf3?

Amd Athlon X4 II 631 quadcore @2.6ghz
Sapphire HD7770 ghz overclock edition
8GB ddr3 ram

 

[AbdullahG]

The Athlon II X4 should be too much of a bottleneck for the HD 7770. There is always some sort of bottleneck present in every PC. An HD 7770 is a low-mid range GPU that performs very much like the GTX 460 and HD 6850:

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/536?vs=542

With lowered settings in BF3, you should be able to play it fine.

 

[danvic123]

Yeah, I intend to overclock

 

[nomad_1911]

Your cpu is fine for that graphics card,you should not experience any bottlenecking,it should be well balanced in my opinion even for BF3,cheers !!!

 

[danvic123]

Thanks! Thats great to know, just wasnt sure seeing as the gpu cost like twice as much as the cpu.

 

[danvic123]

Ecs A75f-M2 motherboard, i probraby wont even get battlefield 3, i just want to benchmark my cpu and gpu against it so i know how if theyre good enough for other games.