FX-6300 and GTX-1070 will it work?

[Benstar279]

I am thinking of getting a GTX 1070 but will it bottleneck with the FX-6300 6 core?

Motherboard:Gigabyte 78LMT-S2PT
RAM: 8 GB
PSU: Corsair CXM500 (500 W)

 

[Alan Caldwell]

Yes, the CPU will bottleneck.
BTW
You need a better PSU too.

 

[DustinV]

Agree^

 

[jbc029]

It will depend on how well the game in question uses mutli-threading. If it's still the old 4-thread development, yeah, you're going to need a pretty decent OC on that machine to keep the 1070 at close to peak utilization. Regarding the PSU, it's a CX 500W. You'll probably be ok with a 6300 and a 1070, if you don't OC either, but then you you're back to your original question.

 

[Benstar279]

It will depend on how well the game in question uses mutli-threading. If it's still the old 4-thread development, yeah, you're going to need a pretty decent OC on that machine to keep the 1070 at close to peak utilization. Regarding the PSU, it's a CX 500W. You'll probably be ok with a 6300 and a 1070, if you don't OC either, but then you you're back to your original question.

well what micro ATX motherboard would you suggest for me to get? it is even big enough for a 1070???

 

[maxalge]

It will depend on how well the game in question uses mutli-threading. If it's still the old 4-thread development, yeah, you're going to need a pretty decent OC on that machine to keep the 1070 at close to peak utilization. Regarding the PSU, it's a CX 500W. You'll probably be ok with a 6300 and a 1070, if you don't OC either, but then you you're back to your original question.

well what micro ATX motherboard would you suggest for me to get? it is even big enough for a 1070???

has nothing to do with your mobo size, the case must support such a big sized card

also you got it wrong, the 6300 is not good enough to not bottleneck the 1070


and is made worse by the terrible non overclocking motherboard and power supply you have


if you want a 1070, it's time for you to get a new i5 setup

 

[Benstar279]

It will depend on how well the game in question uses mutli-threading. If it's still the old 4-thread development, yeah, you're going to need a pretty decent OC on that machine to keep the 1070 at close to peak utilization. Regarding the PSU, it's a CX 500W. You'll probably be ok with a 6300 and a 1070, if you don't OC either, but then you you're back to your original question.

well what micro ATX motherboard would you suggest for me to get? it is even big enough for a 1070???

has nothing to do with your mobo size, the case must support such a big sized card

also you got it wrong, the 6300 is not good enough to not bottleneck the 1070


and is made worse by the terrible non overclocking motherboard and power supply you have


if you want a 1070, it's time for you to get a new i5 setup

well any recommendation for a mobo, i5 and psu?

 

[DustinV]

Do you plan on overclocking the CPU?
If so do you have an aftermarket cooler on your fx 6300 that you can reuse?
Do you plan on going SLI in the future?
What is your budget? Should expect around $400 USD for the upgrade

 

[Alan Caldwell]

What is your budget for the processor, mobo, ram, PSU?

 

[Benstar279]

Do you plan on overclocking the CPU?
If so do you have an aftermarket cooler on your fx 6300 that you can reuse?
Do you plan on going SLI in the future?
What is your budget? Should expect around $400 USD for the upgrade

If so do you have an aftermarket cooler on your fx 6300 that you can reuse? Ill be buying one very soon like week or so.
Do you plan on going SLI in the future? Not really but if I can, I probably would.

I am planning to get MSI 970 Gaming AMD AM3 GBE LAN ATX Motherboard. But even if I dont get the 1070, would I have to buy a new PSU?

 

[DustinV]

you should be getting a Z170 mobo and i5 6600k if you want to overclock (if not overclocking get i5 6500, use stock cpu cooler get something cheaper liek a T4 and an H170 motherboard
SLI 1070s in the future would be amazing, so getting an sli capable mobo would be smart, and a good quality 750w psu

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-6600K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor ($233.99 @ SuperBiiz)
CPU Cooler: CRYORIG H7 49.0 CFM CPU Cooler ($35.00)
Motherboard: ASRock Z170M Extreme4 Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($101.98 @ Newegg)
Memory: Kingston FURY 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2400 Memory ($32.99 @ Amazon)
Power Supply: EVGA 750W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($64.99 @ Amazon)
Total: $468.95
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-06-09 14:40 EDT-0400

 

[Benstar279]

you should be getting a Z170 mobo and i5 6600k if you want to overclock (if not overclocking get i5 6500, use stock cpu cooler get something cheaper liek a T4 and an H170 motherboard
SLI 1070s in the future would be amazing, so getting an sli capable mobo would be smart, and a good quality 750w psu

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-6600K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor ($233.99 @ SuperBiiz)
CPU Cooler: CRYORIG H7 49.0 CFM CPU Cooler ($35.00)
Motherboard: ASRock Z170M Extreme4 Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($101.98 @ Newegg)
Memory: Kingston FURY 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2400 Memory ($32.99 @ Amazon)
Power Supply: EVGA 750W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($64.99 @ Amazon)
Total: $468.95
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-06-09 14:40 EDT-0400

I dont think ill be getting SLI too soon, I think I'll wait for a few more interesting cards for a nice price to come out. But i want to know, with a 500W PSU and what ever MOBO you recommend, could I overclock my fx- 6300 properly? Eventually i will upgrade my PSu once i go 2-way gpu but for now I would prefer 500W/

 

[DustinV]

If you are upgrading your motherboard you should switch to an intel i5 cpu. the fx 6300 will bottleneck newer cards
And i would still upgrade to a better quality psu if you like you computer. I wouldnt want my pc blowing up.
The 750 w psu is the same price as the 500-550w psu's id recommend. and of same quality. Would of recommended an H170 motherboard for no overclockign, but this Z170 is of better quality and same price

This is a lot cheaper, since it has a locked cpu and a non sli mobo. But you are able to upgrade to an overclockable cpu like the 6700k in the future.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-6500 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor ($194.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: MSI Z170-A PRO ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($82.98 @ Newegg)
Memory: Kingston FURY 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2400 Memory ($32.99 @ Amazon)
Power Supply: EVGA 750W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($64.99 @ Amazon)
Total: $375.95
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-06-09 21:54 EDT-0400

 

[bgi123]

Are those things that you have already?
If so the PSU should be fine to run the 1070. I ran a 7970 overclocked plus an overclocked AMD 8320 on a similar power supply not too long ago ( I have a 1000 watt power-supply now). Everyone here always exaggerates on how much wattage you need. Your power supply is good enough for your set up. Nividia page recommends a 500 wattage PSU for that graphics card.

The AMD FX 6300 will need to be overclocked to at least 4.2GHz or more (very easy to do with a Hyper Evo 212). I am using GTX 970s in SLI with my AMD FX 8320 4.6 ghz. Gaming has been good on it. Most games nowadays are limited by the GPU anyways. You won't experience a lot of bottlenecks if you overclock your CPU. I had overclocked my AMD 8320 to 4.4 ghz on a cheapo 50$ gigabyte mobo so I believe you can too.

It really depends on your budget. AMD FX is going to be a dead end socket meaning no potential for upgrades in the future, but its a lot cheaper and is really only marginally worse at modern games than the i5. If you already have it stick with it until Zen comes out or when you get more money to spend.

If you want you should maybe wait for the RX 480 for 200$ its between a GTX 970 and GTX 980 in performance at a very good price and maybe get a good monitor or gaming keyboard.

 

[DustinV]

He needs to upgrade the power supply due to bad quality, not wattage.

And 8 core fx's perform way worse than i5. An i5 can give 5-30 fps more in AAA titles. There are plenty of videos on it. (5 fps increase being Poorly optimized Arma 3)

 

[Benstar279]

Are those things that you have already?
If so the PSU should be fine to run the 1070. I ran a 7970 overclocked plus an overclocked AMD 8320 on a similar power supply not too long ago ( I have a 1000 watt power-supply now). Everyone here always exaggerates on how much wattage you need. Your power supply is good enough for your set up. Nividia page recommends a 500 wattage PSU for that graphics card.

The AMD FX 6300 will need to be overclocked to at least 4.2GHz or more (very easy to do with a Hyper Evo 212). I am using GTX 970s in SLI with my AMD FX 8320 4.6 ghz. Gaming has been good on it. Most games nowadays are limited by the GPU anyways. You won't experience a lot of bottlenecks if you overclock your CPU. I had overclocked my AMD 8320 to 4.4 ghz on a cheapo 50$ gigabyte mobo so I believe you can too.

It really depends on your budget. AMD FX is going to be a dead end socket meaning no potential for upgrades in the future, but its a lot cheaper and is really only marginally worse at modern games than the i5. If you already have it stick with it until Zen comes out or when you get more money to spend.

If you want you should maybe wait for the RX 480 for 200$ its between a GTX 970 and GTX 980 in performance at a very good price and maybe get a good monitor or gaming keyboard.

I was thinking of getting the RX 480 but my issue was the PSU and what motherboard would be best. also I am not running 1080p yet but ill probably get a monitor for Christmas. I noticed the recommended psu power was 500W and people saying i cant do it really was weird to me.

 

[ema21del9]

Are those things that you have already?
If so the PSU should be fine to run the 1070. I ran a 7970 overclocked plus an overclocked AMD 8320 on a similar power supply not too long ago ( I have a 1000 watt power-supply now). Everyone here always exaggerates on how much wattage you need. Your power supply is good enough for your set up. Nividia page recommends a 500 wattage PSU for that graphics card.

The AMD FX 6300 will need to be overclocked to at least 4.2GHz or more (very easy to do with a Hyper Evo 212). I am using GTX 970s in SLI with my AMD FX 8320 4.6 ghz. Gaming has been good on it. Most games nowadays are limited by the GPU anyways. You won't experience a lot of bottlenecks if you overclock your CPU. I had overclocked my AMD 8320 to 4.4 ghz on a cheapo 50$ gigabyte mobo so I believe you can too.

It really depends on your budget. AMD FX is going to be a dead end socket meaning no potential for upgrades in the future, but its a lot cheaper and is really only marginally worse at modern games than the i5. If you already have it stick with it until Zen comes out or when you get more money to spend.

If you want you should maybe wait for the RX 480 for 200$ its between a GTX 970 and GTX 980 in performance at a very good price and maybe get a good monitor or gaming keyboard.

I was thinking of getting the RX 480 but my issue was the PSU and what motherboard would be best. also I am not running 1080p yet but ill probably get a monitor for Christmas. I noticed the recommended psu power was 500W and people saying i cant do it really was weird to me.

The issue with certain PSU's is that they don't deliver what they say they do, let's say we have a "600W generic PSU", I'm pretty sure the "real" wattage will be around half of that, you get the point right?

 

[DustinV]

Your power supply does have enough wattage, but is low quality. Which means when stressed it could blow up

Not a single person here said you need more than 500w. We all said your Psu is low quality.

I only recommended a 750w Psu because it is the same quality and price as other 550w units I usually recommend

 

[Wayfall]

CPU has old architecture and is slower compared to new CPU's due to this, having lots of cores isn't everything you know.

If you would like to take full advance of the new GPU's (and be able to have no CPU limitations in games) I would highly recommend you look into the Devils Canyon i7's or the Skylake i7's if you have the cash as i5's can struggle in some of the very demanding games such as the Witcher 3 and Fallout4.

Also have a gander at this PSU guide to help you out:
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/id-2547993/psu-tier-list.html

Regards

 

[Alan Caldwell]

I was thinking of getting the RX 480 but my issue was the PSU and what motherboard would be best. also I am not running 1080p yet but ill probably get a monitor for Christmas. I noticed the recommended psu power was 500W and people saying i cant do it really was weird to me.

You might wanna read this thread to understand about PSUs,
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/power-supply-psu-review,2916.html

This is a guide on choosing the right PSU,
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/power-supply-psu-review,2916.html

 

[bgi123]

Guys. He already has the power supply and it isn't a sentey or a no brand ebay one. I used a really shitty 500 watt thermatake power supply (was only 80+ not even bronze) on the set up I mentioned (7970 with an 8320 both overclocked) and there wasn't anything wrong with it at all. His setup will be even less demanding. Prob around 330~400 wattage at most.

As I mentioned before. Most games are GPU bounded. The games that are CPU bound like the Total war games and MMORPGs are still very playable. Again he already HAS those components. If he didn't I would tell him that intel is faster, but costs more. Every game I play I play it just fine. I don't play ARMA, I play Battlefield 4 instead and a lot of Dota 2 both are over 100 FPS on my 144hz monitor. I am not in a hurry to upgrade yet. Witcher 3 is also very playable at ultra for me. Its around 50 to 90 FPS sometimes dipping to 40s, again still playable same with fallout 4. Again my GPUs are at 99% usage in most of the games I play so I don't have CPU bottle necking for the most part.

I would have gone intel if my gaming experiences was sub par. I just couldn't see any reason to ditch the AMD FX 8320 yet. Its still going strong.

I'll probably spurge when Zen comes out and get SLI 1080 tis.

 

[DustinV]

Corsair Cx are very low quality units. Sure they can work good, until they don't anymore and your Motherboard gets fried

Personally I wouldn't do more than web browsing with that Psu

Never cheap out on the heart of your PC

 

[Benstar279]

Guys. He already has the power supply and it isn't a sentey or a no brand ebay one. I used a really shitty 500 watt thermatake power supply (was only 80+ not even bronze) on the set up I mentioned (7970 with an 8320 both overclocked) and there wasn't anything wrong with it at all. His setup will be even less demanding. Prob around 330~400 wattage at most.

As I mentioned before. Most games are GPU bounded. The games that are CPU bound like the Total war games and MMORPGs are still very playable. Again he already HAS those components. If he didn't I would tell him that intel is faster, but costs more. Every game I play I play it just fine. I don't play ARMA, I play Battlefield 4 instead and a lot of Dota 2 both are over 100 FPS on my 144hz monitor. I am not in a hurry to upgrade yet. Witcher 3 is also very playable at ultra for me. Its around 50 to 90 FPS sometimes dipping to 40s, again still playable same with fallout 4. Again my GPUs are at 99% usage in most of the games I play so I don't have CPU bottle necking for the most part.

I would have gone intel if my gaming experiences was sub par. I just couldn't see any reason to ditch the AMD FX 8320 yet. Its still going strong.

I'll probably spurge when Zen comes out and get SLI 1080 tis.

I want to play ARMA 3 cuz my friends have it. Honestly I didn't realise I was going to get this many different responses.

 

[madmatt30]

Im siding with bgi123 - the corsair aint great but its not a system killer either,its a real 500w unit & will power a 970/1070/480

I think the 1070 is going to be wasted on a 6300 full stop without a monster overclock (4.5ghz+)

get a decent new board & cooler ,push 4.2/4.3ghz & either grab a 970 if prices drop when the 1070 releases or wait for the 480 - they both have a 150w or so tdp & the corsair will manage them,your motherboard is your primary concern not the psu.

 

[madmatt30]

Guys. He already has the power supply and it isn't a sentey or a no brand ebay one. I used a really shitty 500 watt thermatake power supply (was only 80+ not even bronze) on the set up I mentioned (7970 with an 8320 both overclocked) and there wasn't anything wrong with it at all. His setup will be even less demanding. Prob around 330~400 wattage at most.

As I mentioned before. Most games are GPU bounded. The games that are CPU bound like the Total war games and MMORPGs are still very playable. Again he already HAS those components. If he didn't I would tell him that intel is faster, but costs more. Every game I play I play it just fine. I don't play ARMA, I play Battlefield 4 instead and a lot of Dota 2 both are over 100 FPS on my 144hz monitor. I am not in a hurry to upgrade yet. Witcher 3 is also very playable at ultra for me. Its around 50 to 90 FPS sometimes dipping to 40s, again still playable same with fallout 4. Again my GPUs are at 99% usage in most of the games I play so I don't have CPU bottle necking for the most part.

I would have gone intel if my gaming experiences was sub par. I just couldn't see any reason to ditch the AMD FX 8320 yet. Its still going strong.

I'll probably spurge when Zen comes out and get SLI 1080 tis.

I want to play ARMA 3 cuz my friends have it. Honestly I didn't realise I was going to get this many different responses.

fx chips are fairly crap at anything running on the arma engine - its single threaded & unoptimised,dont expect more than 30-40fps no matter what gpu you buy.