Bottleneck with 970

[DriedUrchin]

Just a quick question. Would a gtx 970 bottleneck a 6300? neither of them are overclocked.

 

[Deleted member 217926]

Other way around. The 6300 will bottleneck the GTX 970. Overclock the CPU as much as possible and it will help.

 

[cuecuemore]

anort3 is correct, the 6300 is likely to bottleneck the 970. It depends a lot on what you want to play though.

 

[Haydose]

Bottlenecking is a very overused term, I believe yes your cpu may be a 'bottle neck' although in terms of performance you may or may not see any increase or decrease, of performance in certain games.
If you could list what type of games or uses of the pc, i can try to assist you in if your cpu is indeed a 'bottle neck'.
For now I can recommend you purchase yourself an AMD FX-8350 or you can either purchase a AMD FX-8320, which is essentially a underclocked model of the 8350, you can easliy acquire same performance and even better performance by overclocking a 8320 then you would a stock 8350.

 

[Vici0us]

FX-6300 will bottleneck GTX 970. You'd want at least FX-8320 paired with GTX 970.

 

[DriedUrchin]

Other way around. The 6300 will bottleneck the GTX 970. Overclock the CPU as much as possible and it will help.

Then I have 2 questions: would it still be worth to get with plans to upgrade down the line? If not, what card would you recommend to upgrade from a 660.

 

[Deleted member 217926]

Oh I would still get the 970. There are some games that perform the same with pretty much any modern CPU and the games that are bottlenecked by the CPU will still do better with a high end GPU like the 970 than with something slower. An FX 8xxx series or even better a move to Intel would certainly help in the long run though.

 

[DriedUrchin]

Oh I would still get the 970. There are some games that perform the same with pretty much any modern CPU and the games that are bottlenecked by the CPU will still do better with a high end GPU like the 970 than with something slower. An FX 8xxx series or even better a move to Intel would certainly help in the long run though.

So despite the fact that my cpu would sometimes bottlenck it would still be worth the 350$ to get the 970?

 

[Deleted member 217926]

In my opinion, yes. I would also overclock the CPU. If you can get ~4.5Ghz out of it or around there it will go along way to alleviating any bottleneck.

 

[DriedUrchin]

In my opinion, yes. I would also overclock the CPU. If you can get ~4.5Ghz out of it or around there it will go along way to alleviating any bottleneck.

Using stock cool so no overclock for me 🙁

 

[Deleted member 217926]

Even a cheap mid range cooler like the Coolermaster Hyper 212 Evo should get that CPU to ~4.3Ghz-4.5Ghz. Cost you around $30 and about an hour of time to install it. Pretty cheap compared to a CPU upgrade.

 

[DriedUrchin]

Followup question, would my current gpu, a 660, bottleneck a 3570(k)?

 

[Deleted member 217926]

No. With multiple high end cards like GTX 970s/980s in Sli you would want to overclock the i5 but you aren't going to bottleneck it. A good rule of thumb is the FX 8xxx series at 4.5Ghz is equal to a stock i5 in gaming. There are of course, games where this is not true but overall as an average it is about right.

 

[Deleted member 217926]

I do believe that an FX 6300 ( overclocked ) with a GTX 970 will give you a better gaming experience than an i5 with a GTX 660 though. I generally upgrade graphics cards 2 or 3 times between CPU/motherboard upgrades but I do generally buy higher end CPUs. As much as a good CPU matters the graphics card is still the main part of a good gaming system.

 

[DriedUrchin]

Ya know, with buying a 970, and new mobo, and a cooling system, and an i5, I'd be better off just waiting for my next build. Thanks for all the helpful input though!