Athlon II x3 450 bottlenecking question

[Sniper434]

im getting mixed answers on this but will this cpu (athlon II x3 450) bottleneck the Radeon HD 7770 gpu

keep getting answer of yes and no just want a good answer lol

 

[shellls45]

It depends on the game. Something like BF3 MP yes. TF2 no.

 

[barto]

I'm with shellls. It will depend on the game. If you want to play the latest games, I'd say bottleneck all the way. Older games, hit or miss.

 

[Sniper434]

I'm with shellls. It will depend on the game. If you want to play the latest games, I'd say bottleneck all the way. Older games, hit or miss.

the games i play are diablo 3, wow , dayz/dayz standalone, hearthstone, those are the games i play

 

[shellls45]

If you really want to check, start up msi afterburner and turn on frame monitoring. Then play your games with v sync on. Then minimize while playing and read the graphs. If the frame rate is below 60 fps at any point when gpu usage is not at 100% then you are bottlenecking.