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)

 

[Benstar279]

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.

THx man but what motherboards would you recommend for that MONSTER OVERCLOCK you speak about?

 

[madmatt30]

cheapish boards

gigabyte 970a-ud3p
msi 970 gaming
gigabyte 970 gaming

about it for boards at a reasonable pricepoint,no point going 990 with a 6 core.

ud3p would be my choice,however 4.5ghz+ is not a certainty on any fx chip.
I still dont think the 1070 is worth the outlay for an fx chip unless youre running 1440p+
the current gtx 970 & the upcoming r9 480 are better suited for 1080p gaming.

gigabyte 9

 

[Benstar279]

cheapish boards

gigabyte 970a-ud3p
msi 970 gaming
gigabyte 970 gaming

about it for boards at a reasonable pricepoint,no point going 990 with a 6 core.

ud3p would be my choice,however 4.5ghz+ is not a certainty on any fx chip.
I still dont think the 1070 is worth the outlay for an fx chip unless youre running 1440p+
the current gtx 970 & the upcoming r9 480 are better suited for 1080p gaming.

gigabyte 9

thx ill check it out

 

[bgi123]

Oh man. If you want to play Arma 3 on a FX is gonna be kinda sub par. That game is VERY CPU extensive. You should get playable frames around 30 to 45 but nothing amazing. It won't be a slide show, but it won't be super smooth also. It will be console level at the very most so you'll be fine. I don't think Arma is a twitch shooter like COD, BF4 and counter strike where you need the frames for super smoothness. You'll be fine.

Oh ya. I am using the MSI 970 gaming board for my 8320 at 4.6 ghz.

On your current board try to push for 4.3 ghz. That should be fairly easy. If you don't have an after market cooler yet you can do 4.0 without any major problems.

Also as I and MadMatt recommends - try to save for the RX 480. You don't have a 1080p monitor yet so getting one would improve your gaming experience greatly.

 

[DustinV]

If you are spending money on a motherboArd you should take the Opiortunity to swap over to an Intel CPU.

You will be wasting your money getting a new mobo, and aftermarket cooler just to overclock an fx 6300

And I highly recommend getting a new Psu, don't listen to those saying it isn't a problem. It is very low quality and it is a PC killer

 

[bgi123]

If you are spending money on a motherboArd you should take the Opiortunity to swap over to an Intel CPU.

You will be wasting your money getting a new mobo, and aftermarket cooler just to overclock an fx 6300

And I highly recommend getting a new Psu, don't listen to those saying it isn't a problem. It is very low quality and it is a PC killer

Again you are saying a hyperbole. No the PSU won't kill his computer. I have one of those in my little sisters PC, but it isn't modular. She has a FX 6300 paired with a 7970 both are overclocked as high as I could get it. Still going strong for the 4 years she had it.

Also about the intel upgrade. If you got the money intel will give you better frames in Arma 3.

 

[DustinV]

I'm not saying it is a 100% chance of it to fry components, but it is possible.

Personally I wouldn't risk it.

 

[Wayfall]

So your want to buy a near £500 GPU then plug it in a cheap budget PSU, that is just careless and dangerous for the card.

My GTX 970 slowly killed my old year old CX 500w (PSU use to be in FM2 build) within a month of install the new GPU it die,d so how long do u think a GTX 1000 series card would do with it.

Also the GTX 1000 series cards are around 28cm in length so it will just fit in a Mid tower case, I have a full tower case so I won't have issues.

You will need to do a lot of upgrading before you can use GTX 1000 series card.

 

[rnewton8]

GTX 1070 is a great card for 1440p rez, but you could get by with less for 1080p.

Also, the non-k models for i5 skylake will in fact overclock quite well. So you could just do what i did and just get a i5 6400 instead of a 660k and a z170 motherboard and overclock the heck out of it. I have mine @ 4.2, or sometimes 4.5 on 1.3 volts, perfectly stable and on the newest bios. My board is an ASRock Z170 Extreme 4, which i highly recommend.

And no matter what, even if you just get an i3, ( which is only dual core but does have hyperthreading) you will still want a z170 board, so you can use memory faster than 2133. There are benchmarks showing an i3 with DDR4 running at 3200 improves fps in games.

Here is my completed skylake build.
https://pcpartpicker.com/b/mfqkcf

I'm still rocking a GTX 960 in this build, but everything else is new..Now I'm , waiting for the rx 480 benchmarks to come out before i decide on which card to get. I have a 1440p freesync monitor, otherwise i would have already gotten a 1070.

 

[Benstar279]

btw i already got a 970 so dont bother writing here cuz i already selected a solution