Bottle-necking a 660 III twin frozr

[chrispoteraske]

Will AMD Athlon x4 650 3.2 ghz non OC bottle-neck my gpu?

Computer Specs

8GB Ram

1TB Disk Space

MSI GTX 660 III Twin Frozr SuperClocked

AMD Athelon II X4 650 Processor 3.20 GHZ

1080P - 27 Inch Monitor

 

[AMD Radeon]

even if it is OCed, it will still bottle-neck your powerfull 660
because of lnot-so-good architecture of athlon

but still OC helps a lot increasing performance

 

[djangoringo]

Yes, it will, it's weaker than a pentium g620 :

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/188?vs=406

You can either upgrade the cpu or get the card and latter on when you have the money upgrade for an i5 intel cpu.

 

[chrispoteraske]

How bottlenecked is the GPU at this point?

 

[djangoringo]

To the point that either a lower card will have the same fps on your system or your current gpu will have about the same fps as the older one.

 

[chrispoteraske]

Would you happen to know what card wont be bottlenecked on this cpu?

 

[djangoringo]

You can buy a 7770 amd or a 650 ti, but you can also get the 660 gtx and change latter the cpu for a better one(i5+mobo,etc) and you'll have a better gpu.

 

[chrispoteraske]

You can buy a 7770 amd or a 650 ti, but you can also get the 660 gtx and change latter the cpu for a better one(i5+mobo,etc) and you'll have a better gpu.

Is it only my 660 card that being bottle-necked or will the 7770 or 650 be semi bottle-necked?

 

[djangoringo]

Those cards are weaker, so the cpu will not restrain those, but you could get the 660 gtx and change the cpu latter, you'll have a better card by then.

 

[chrispoteraske]

Those cards are weaker, so the cpu will not restrain those, but you could get the 660 gtx and change the cpu latter, you'll have a better card by then.

What do you recommend? Should I buy the 660 GTX and upgrade CPU later in the year or vice versa?

 

[djangoringo]

What's your current gpu ?

 

[chrispoteraske]

What's your current gpu ?

AMD Radeon 6750

 

[djangoringo]

It's a weak card, get the 660 gtx and latter on upgrade the cpu as soon as possible for an i5 ivybridge.

 

[chrispoteraske]

Best answer selected by ChrisPoteraske.