Cooling And Overclocking with &GTX 1070 build

[AziWazzi]

Hi, I am relatively new to PC's. My current PC has AN AMD FX-6300 and AMD Radeon HD 7900 series. I am looking to upgrade to a gtx 1070. I was wondering a few things. 1# I read that the FX-6300 would bottleneck a 1070. Would Overclocking my CPU stop bottlenecking? 2# If it would, than would I be able to overclock the 1070 as well as the FX-6300? 3#And finally, what cooling would I need to overclock one or both of these components? I currently have just default cooling. Thankyou for all your help!

 

[Trafalgar747]

No matter what you do with your FX 6300, it will still bottleneck the GTX 1060, let alone the GTX 1070. Overclocking your graphics card doesnt require you to purchase any additional components, you should have a good Power supply for overclocking. If you want to overclock the GTX 1070 to a very high extent, you can resort to watercooling, which is expensive. The FX 6300 needs a good cpu cooler to overclock well and a good compatible motherboard, i wouldnt recommend spending anything on that, just save up for a platform change.