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AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition 3.4GHz Bottleneck?

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Clocking my 975 from 3.6 to 4GHz does improve frames slightly (+10Fps avg on C3) but it seems that the Cpu pushes harder and card usage drops so its more balanced,
depending on your cooling being up to it I'd say check out the BE Clocking guide over in the overclocking section and clock the puppy up some :) 
Moto

Kamen_BG said:
In short. No.
Your CPU doesn't even bottleneck a HD 7970.


so not overclocking the CPU wouldn't be an issue running the 7850 at 1600x900 resolution, the games that it will be running are BF3 guild wars 2, crysis 1,2 and 3 Tomb Raider ect mostly modern games what sort of setting would I be looking at?

Motopsychojdn said:
Take C3 as your guideline here,
run this on your pc, it will probably say your chips weak and gpu is lacking
http://www.yougamers.com/gameometer/10566/
Then clock it to 4GHz and rerun it, it should make a vast difference,
I run C3 on very high (Except shadows, High) and Fxaa, 3.6GHz gets me about 50Fps and 4 gets a solid 60
I'm slightly ahead of you on Gfx though with two 6950 2gb's

Moto


Cheers, what resolution you running at as 1600x900 is tops for my monitor.

Motopsychojdn said:
Yup, As I said, knock aa off if you struggle and drop settings you can live without like shadows, but its perfectly playable on lower settings or at slightly lower frames,
Moto


thanks a lot you've been a big help think its a wise choice while i wait for steamroller

Motopsychojdn said:
No probs man, glad to help
Moto


Big mess up the company supplying the CPU and GPU have shafted me and I waiting for refund

had to go with
XFX Core Edition Radeon HD 7870 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card + 2 FREE GAMES! £166
FX-4300 3.80GHz £90

will the FX-4300 3.80GHz be as good as the X4 in gaming?

Thanatos79 said:
Motopsychojdn said:
No probs man, glad to help
Moto


Big mess up the company supplying the CPU and GPU have shafted me and I waiting for refund

had to go with
XFX Core Edition Radeon HD 7870 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card + 2 FREE GAMES! £166
FX-4300 3.80GHz £90

will the FX-4300 3.80GHz be as good as the X4 in gaming?


it will do just as well, they are of the same class of gaming cpu

spentshells said:
Thanatos79 said:
Motopsychojdn said:
No probs man, glad to help
Moto


Big mess up the company supplying the CPU and GPU have shafted me and I waiting for refund

had to go with
XFX Core Edition Radeon HD 7870 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card + 2 FREE GAMES! £166
FX-4300 3.80GHz £90

will the FX-4300 3.80GHz be as good as the X4 in gaming?


it will do just as well, they are of the same class of gaming cpu


Thank god lol
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