GTX 1070 compatibility

[Beasty_993]

So i was thinking of purchasing a 1070 and putting it into a prebuilt system wich has:
M5A78L-M LX3 motherboard
ddr3 1600 8gb ram
amd 6300 cpu
500 hyper psu
Would the psu, motherboard handle the 1070? Also how bad of a bottleneck ill be getting with the ram and the cpu? I'm planning on buying ddr 4 16gb ram and a ryzen 5 1600. Would the ryzen be a good purchase with the 1070? I chose ryzen because of the cooler that comes with it and also because of the extra cores wich should help in the newer games wich will use more cores... right? Currently i'm thinking of this 1070 as it is the cheapest, but are zotac cards good?: https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814500409

 

[TechyInAZ]

[strike]Yep, Ryzen is an excellent choice.[/strike]

Zotac makes very good cards, that 1070 will work great for you!

 

[Isokolon]

This is not a Ryzen CPU
It's an old FX6300

It's too weak to be paired with a 1070 at 1080p

 

[bjornl]

Several questions:
That PSU will be ok with the 1070.
The amd 6300 CPU will be a bit of a bottleneck. It is an old, slow CPU.
The extra cores in a Ryzen CPU might help some day but for now Ryzen based CPUs are slower for games. If gaming is all you care about, a Ryzen is not the right purchase. A similarly priced Intel i5 will get you better FPS. The reason to buy a ryzen today would be if gaming is not super important but rendering, compiling or other very parallel work is your goal.
Choosing a CPU because it comes with a cooler seems a strange way to go, but ok.

 

[TechyInAZ]

This is not a Ryzen CPU
It's an old FX6300

It's too weak to be paired with a 1070 at 1080p

:facepalm: Fail on my part. Thank you for pointing that out.

The FX 6300 is not going to do well at all with a GTX 1070, you'll want at least a Skylake/Kaby Lake Core i5 or Ryzen 5 CPU to prevent bottlenecking.

 

[Beasty_993]

Several questions:
The extra cores in a Ryzen CPU might help some day but for now Ryzen based CPUs are slower for games. If gaming is all you care about, a Ryzen is not the right purchase. A similarly priced Intel i5 will get you better FPS. The reason to buy a ryzen today would be if gaming is not super important but rendering, compiling or other very parallel work is your goal.
Choosing a CPU because it comes with a cooler seems a strange way to go, but ok.

Well i have heard good things about the wraith spire cooler and will say, an i5-7500 really make a noticable difference for gaming? I currently have a 1080p 60hz monitor. Also is the i5-7500 much worse at rendering?

 

[bjornl]

Several questions:
The extra cores in a Ryzen CPU might help some day but for now Ryzen based CPUs are slower for games. If gaming is all you care about, a Ryzen is not the right purchase. A similarly priced Intel i5 will get you better FPS. The reason to buy a ryzen today would be if gaming is not super important but rendering, compiling or other very parallel work is your goal.
Choosing a CPU because it comes with a cooler seems a strange way to go, but ok.

Well i have heard good things about the wraith spire cooler and will say, an i5-7500 really make a noticable difference for gaming? I currently have a 1080p 60hz monitor. Also is the i5-7500 much worse at rendering?

The i5-7500 would not be as fast if you were using Cinema 4d, 3D Studio Max, Lightwave or that sort of app. The difference would be substantial. But at games play the way the Ryzen is put together as two halves which work together but less directly than the cores on the same "side" seems to play a role in game performance. I encourage you to read the reviews. They are more definitive and less biased than random opinions on the internet.

 

[Isokolon]

You won't see any performance increase with an i5-7500 over a Ryzen CPU
Ryzen is barely slower than an i7 or unlocked i5 and by far the better deal than a 7500 for the money

 

[Beasty_993]

Well my biggest concern was with the motherboard. I think it's old/bad(maybe both) and so it may not work with the new gpu... Could that be an issue or is any motherboard with a pcie slot good for any gpu? I currently have a gtx 960.

 

[bjornl]

Well my biggest concern was with the motherboard. I think it's old/bad(maybe both) and so it may not work with the new gpu... Could that be an issue or is any motherboard with a pcie slot good for any gpu? I currently have a gtx 960.

What you need for the 1070 is a PCIe 16x slot. The gtx960 also needs 16x slot. These cards can typically be made to work in 8x slots, but performance is bad. Your motherboard manual will tell you what you need to know there (which slot is what).
Performance with your fx6300 based system will be poor, but that won't be because of the motherboard. It will be because the fx6300 is an old, slow CPU.