Are there any Bottlenecks with this?

[fajanelat]

MOBO: Gigabyte GA-F2A68HM-S1
CPU: AMD A10-7870K
GPU: Zotac GeForce GTX 1050 Mini OC Ed. (2 fans)
RAM: Kingston 1x8 GB 1333

Are there any bottlenecks from the setup provided? Also, with this setup, what should my expected FPS be with High Settings on games like Dota 2, CSGO, PUBG, etc.?

 

[ZRace]

Bottleneck Number 1: Only a single RAM stick. You got dual channel, why would you do this?

Bottleneck Number 2: CPU/The platform in itself. The A10 doesn't even reach modern Core i3 performance in gaming, it's not worth it. Also, FM2+ as a platform is end of life.

Your GTX 1050 will get bottlenecked. Dota 2 and CSGO should work fine with this, but the CPU will have a hard time with PUBG.

If possible, get a Ryzen 3 series CPU with a cheap B350 motherboard, would be a better match for the GTX 1050

 

[RememberThe5th]

I think the CPU will hog you down in PUBG without a slight overclock, but other games would be fine.
You can always return product on steam if your hardware isn't good enough.

As for GTA 5 and H1Z1 would be over 30 surley, but Arma 3 won't do it on 1080p.

 

[RememberThe5th]

Usually CoreTemp reports most accurate and amd Overdrive since they use CPU/Motherboard sensors.
4.5GHz should be good under 75*C, just make sure that you have atleast one exhaust fan.

 

[fajanelat]

@ZRace
Was planning on buying a new build after 2 years as I am possibly not gonna be able to use this PC abroad, I was planning on a Ryzen 3/5 with a B350 ASRock Board, ang 2x4 or 2x8 gb ram. Should my GPU still be a 1050 or just upgrade to whatever is in a nice spec ratings on that current time?

@Robert Ban
Tried overclocking my CPU to 4.5Ghz but I'm not sure if these temp readings are accurate, I use 3 different softwares: AMD Overdrive, SpeedFan, and CoreTemp. Should I try getting their average readings?


UPDATE: Comment got deleted in accident

 

[fajanelat]

@Robert Ban
In CoreTemp, I get Max 51c while in AMD Overdrive, I barely reach 55c. That's why I was doubting these softwares as it should've increased, as I've seen other threads not reaching 4.5Ghz with stock heatsink. By the way, is the ID Cooling 12025 Fans good? (Kinda on a budget for now and this is the only available fan on my local store atm)

 

[fajanelat]

@Robert Ban
Oh by the way, I can run PUBG with at least 25-30+ fps without the overclock but sometimes I get spikes of up to 10+fps, so should the overclock from 3.9Ghz to 4.5Ghz do something good? (Haven't played PUBG cuz of the 5gb update)

 

[ZRace]

Oh so you have the A10 already. In that case it's different of course. I believe Robert already responded well enough in that regard, I have nothing to add.

As for the next build: In years is in 2 years. There will be new CPU and GPU generations out there, so you'll have to look at it again when the time comes

 

[fajanelat]

@ZRace
Yep, regarding the OC I did (from 3.9Ghz to 4.5Ghz), shouldn't there be an increase in temp during idle and gaming? How about the volts? It seems that my max temp still remained the same (5.1C for Coretemp, 55C for Overdrive)

 

[King_V]

It's hard to give expected FPS without knowing what resolution you're running.

 

[RememberThe5th]

Well he's gonna probably 1080P , if you are scared about voltage you can always dip down a bit and test if it crashes, you can enable speedstep and C states (which activates as you do nothing and it automagicly downclocks your CPU it does for intel not sure for amd).

Overclock is always good in perfomance boost but as most state it degrades the CPU, but thats if you use too much voltage.
As i watched on youtube usually as degradation means as you run CPU at 1.2V for example and over a year once crashed soo you need more and more voltage until becomes unusable, but as you are in safe voltage range there shouldn't be any worry.

 

[fajanelat]

@King_V
I play on 1080P but 1024 for FPS (if possible) cuz of the small FOV

@Robert Ban
Is it safe to lower voltage on BIOS? 1.5 is the stock, should I go down a bit? Like 1.475 or 1.45?

 

[RememberThe5th]

"Usually, you can put quite a few volts through the A10 chips, it really depends on the temps for your CPU. If they are good, you can typically push 1.5-1.6 volts, but I'd probably recommend no more than 1.55-1.6 volts for everyday use. Although, more than 1.6 is perfectly fine as long as the processor stays under 80 C.



The 1.65 volts it was using earlier should not have damaged the processor, it may have overheated a little but considering that it was only on that high for a few days it'll be fine. I know that KeithplaysPC got his 7870k to 5.5 Ghz using 1.75 volts so 1.65 isn't going to kill your processor unless the temp was bad.



So, in short: You are probably fine, 1.65 should not have damaged the CPU unless it was overheating. I'd also recommend that you manually overclock that processor, you can probably find a better mix of settings than the auto-overclock feature will be able to set. Usually you can find a advanced bios key of some kind to manually do volts, if not then just play with it a bit and see if you can't get the 4.4 Ghz with a lower amount of volts."


Thats what i found, soo it seems safe for it.

Happy gaming btw.

But usually lower voltage means less heat soo if you are willing to play around then sure, but if it works i wouldn't touch anything.

 

[King_V]

@King_V
I play on 1080P but 1024 for FPS (if possible) cuz of the small FOV

Wait, when you say 1024, do you mean 1280x1024, or 1024x768?

Though, with either of those, the FPS will be notably more than at 1920x1080 (which is what I guess people are probably assuming when a resolution isn't stated).

 

[fajanelat]

@King_V
I meant 1024x768, it seems to not have any problems unlike my previous monitor which does not stretch the 1024x768. But mostly, I play 1920x1080 on other games. I tried 1920x1080 on CSGO, got a good fps with stock Clock speed but I was used to 1024x768.

@Robert Ban
Basically, I can push more speeds, even if my volts reach more than 1.5 but no more than 1.65 as long as the temp is normal? So with my max of 55C, I can push it more?

 

[RememberThe5th]

Im unsure. I dont have any experience with APU CPU's.