Amd fx-8300 bottleneck GTX 1060

[Ultra_Gamer]

Hey forum wondering if a and fx8300 at 3.3 GHz would bottle neck a GTX 1060 3gb. If it does how much would I need to overclock?

 

[bootcher]

Yes and no. It depends on what game you are playing and at what resolution. If at 1080p/60 fps, most games will be fine. CPU-heavy games will perform less if compared to stronger intel CPU's, but it will still perform well. When games to perform less, overclocking will help, how much you can overclock depends on your setup (motherboard, PSU, cooling, etc).

 

[Ultra_Gamer]

Fallout 4, witcher 3, gta V I have a Asus M5A78L- M/USB3 Micro ATX AM3+ I know not the best and a PSU SeaSonic USA S12II 620 Bronze (SS-620GB). Could cooler Thermaltake CL-P0503 80mm.

 

[spdragoo]

GTA V (http://www.techspot.com/review/991-gta-5-pc-benchmarks/page6.html): FX chips are slightly behind Intel chips in performance, but are still more than sufficient to expect to hit at least 50FPS on Very High @ 1080p.

Witcher 3 (http://www.techspot.com/review/1006-the-witcher-3-benchmarks/page5.html): Pretty much just like GTA V. The gap is only going to be about 10% or so, which would translate to maybe losing ~5FPS (10FPS tops) on Ultra @ 1080p.

Fallout 4 (http://www.techspot.com/review/1089-fallout-4-benchmarks/page5.html): FX chips will give you about 50-60% of the Intel performance. However, with a GTX 1060 that should still be enough to give you at least 40-45FPS on Ultra @ 1080p, so turning the quality down a level should bring you up to at least 60FPS.

Overclocking is going to be hit-or-miss. In some games, overclocking scales quite well; in other games, there's very little change (whether it's an AMD or Intel chip). Fallout 4 seems to scale fairly well, so if you can push the FX-8300 up to 4GHz you should expect to see ~15-20% better performance, getting it to 4.3GHz should give you ~25-30% more performance.

 

[Ultra_Gamer]

GTA V (http://www.techspot.com/review/991-gta-5-pc-benchmarks/page6.html): FX chips are slightly behind Intel chips in performance, but are still more than sufficient to expect to hit at least 50FPS on Very High @ 1080p.

Witcher 3 (http://www.techspot.com/review/1006-the-witcher-3-benchmarks/page5.html): Pretty much just like GTA V. The gap is only going to be about 10% or so, which would translate to maybe losing ~5FPS (10FPS tops) on Ultra @ 1080p.

Fallout 4 (http://www.techspot.com/review/1089-fallout-4-benchmarks/page5.html): FX chips will give you about 50-60% of the Intel performance. However, with a GTX 1060 that should still be enough to give you at least 40-45FPS on Ultra @ 1080p, so turning the quality down a level should bring you up to at least 60FPS.

Overclocking is going to be hit-or-miss. In some games, overclocking scales quite well; in other games, there's very little change (whether it's an AMD or Intel chip). Fallout 4 seems to scale fairly well, so if you can push the FX-8300 up to 4GHz you should expect to see ~15-20% better performance, getting it to 4.3GHz should give you ~25-30% more performance.

Could you guide me through overclocking my processor? to 4ghz?

 

[bootcher]

there are soem excellent guides on youtube, search for it. It is a bit extensive to give a full guide here.

 

[Ecky]

GTA V (http://www.techspot.com/review/991-gta-5-pc-benchmarks/page6.html): FX chips are slightly behind Intel chips in performance, but are still more than sufficient to expect to hit at least 50FPS on Very High @ 1080p.

Witcher 3 (http://www.techspot.com/review/1006-the-witcher-3-benchmarks/page5.html): Pretty much just like GTA V. The gap is only going to be about 10% or so, which would translate to maybe losing ~5FPS (10FPS tops) on Ultra @ 1080p.

Fallout 4 (http://www.techspot.com/review/1089-fallout-4-benchmarks/page5.html): FX chips will give you about 50-60% of the Intel performance. However, with a GTX 1060 that should still be enough to give you at least 40-45FPS on Ultra @ 1080p, so turning the quality down a level should bring you up to at least 60FPS.

Overclocking is going to be hit-or-miss. In some games, overclocking scales quite well; in other games, there's very little change (whether it's an AMD or Intel chip). Fallout 4 seems to scale fairly well, so if you can push the FX-8300 up to 4GHz you should expect to see ~15-20% better performance, getting it to 4.3GHz should give you ~25-30% more performance.

I'd like to point out that if the CPU is the limiting factor in framerate, turning down graphical quality will provide no increase in framerate.

 

[Ultra_Gamer]

GTA V (http://www.techspot.com/review/991-gta-5-pc-benchmarks/page6.html): FX chips are slightly behind Intel chips in performance, but are still more than sufficient to expect to hit at least 50FPS on Very High @ 1080p.

Witcher 3 (http://www.techspot.com/review/1006-the-witcher-3-benchmarks/page5.html): Pretty much just like GTA V. The gap is only going to be about 10% or so, which would translate to maybe losing ~5FPS (10FPS tops) on Ultra @ 1080p.

Fallout 4 (http://www.techspot.com/review/1089-fallout-4-benchmarks/page5.html): FX chips will give you about 50-60% of the Intel performance. However, with a GTX 1060 that should still be enough to give you at least 40-45FPS on Ultra @ 1080p, so turning the quality down a level should bring you up to at least 60FPS.

Overclocking is going to be hit-or-miss. In some games, overclocking scales quite well; in other games, there's very little change (whether it's an AMD or Intel chip). Fallout 4 seems to scale fairly well, so if you can push the FX-8300 up to 4GHz you should expect to see ~15-20% better performance, getting it to 4.3GHz should give you ~25-30% more performance.

I'd like to point out that if the CPU is the limiting factor in framerate, turning down graphical quality will provide no increase in framerate.

Do you have i video i could watch for a 3.8ghz overclock?