[SOLVED] Does bottlenecking damage hardware?

[Jm5ulla]

I'm planning to upgrade my components one by one. I currently have a Ryzen 1700 on stock cooler, AB350M motherboard from Gigabyte, 8gb of 2400mhz ram and a GTX 750ti (yeah, choices here are really cheap). I do a lot of video editing in Ae and quite alot of gaming (Namely: Apex Legends, Witcher III, AC Odyssey, OW and MOBAs) and my parents have given me the opportunity to upgrade my system this September (new MoBo), November(new GPU) and December (ram). I plan to replace my board with the X370-F Strix or maybe the X470-F Strix if my savings gets there. For my ram I'm planning on going for the Trident Z 16gb 3000mhz and Strix 2080 for my GPU.. I'm afraid I may damage my GPU by pairing it with a Ryzen 1700 for years to come since I currently have a 1080p 60hz monitor that isn't really built for gaming which i plan on replacing aswell. Aesthetic, performance matters to me alot.

So basically I'm curious if bottlenecking damages hardware fore I might regret my choice of pairing a RTX 2080 with a R 1700 and a 1080p 60hz monitor for the time being. (If you can recommend me a better set up, feel free to give me a spec list at the bottom, i would appreciate it a lot ❤)

My planned set-up : PC

 

[Gam3r01]

"Bottlenecking" has no physical impact on your hardware.

 

[ConanLock]

Bottlenecking won't damage your components in any way. It simply means one of them will be running at 100% while the other one is at anything below that.

Is there any particular reason why you want to upgrade the motherboard? Do the ones you want have extra features that you might use? You will find that the RAM, graphics card, and even a CPU upgrade will run on your current motherboard.

By getting rid of the new motherboard, changing the RTX 2080 for an RX 5700 XT (when custom cooled ones come out - in a few days), you can instead get a Ryzen 3700x and a 500GB NVMe SSD. In my opinion, this would be a much more worthwhile upgrade in terms of performance.

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CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 3.6 GHz 8-Core Processor ($327.79 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: ASRock AB350M-HDV Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard ($87.20 @ Amazon)
Memory: G.Skill Trident Z RGB 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3000 Memory ($89.89 @ OutletPC)
Storage: HP EX900 500 GB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive ($56.89 @ OutletPC)
Storage: Seagate BarraCuda 1 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($44.89 @ OutletPC)
Video Card: XFX Radeon RX 5700 XT 8 GB Video Card ($399.89 @ OutletPC)
Case: Aerocool Aero-500 ATX Mid Tower Case
Power Supply: Corsair CXM 550 W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-modular ATX Power Supply ($69.87 @ OutletPC)
Total: $1076.42
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-08-27 00:49 EDT-0400

Note: motherboard will need BIOS update in order to use Ryzen 3000 CPUs. You can see instructions on the BIOS support page of your motherboard.

 

[Terpinator]

It won't damage anything, you just won't get the most out of a certain piece of hardware.

Imagine you and I are in an assembly line and you can move 10 things per second, but you have to hand it off to me next and I can only move 5 things per second. I will not damage myself, but I will slow down the entire process regardless of how fast you are. The entire line will only move as fast as the slowest person.