gtx 770 fx-6120

[wowwheaties]

I have an hp envy-1414 pc that i upgraded with a 650w psu asus gtx 770 samsung 840 pro 128gb ssd. Ive managed to oc my stock fx-6120 cpu to 4.4ghz stable stock cooling, ran stress tests for hours and my gtx 770 to 1250 boost clock and 7800 memory clock also stable. My Heaven score is as follows. I was wondering if my cpu is still bottlenecking the 770, or how i can figure out other people scores with there 770's. i was thinking about getting a fx-8350 as i know it oc pretty good. btw first time oc anything still learning. thanks in advance

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[barto]

Probably a little in CPU intense games. The first gen FX CPUs just suck. The Phenom IIs were better. Overclocking will help but only so much. I think you should first play a few games and see if you desire more performance to find out if it is worth the upgrade.

 

[geofelt]

A GTX770 is a fine card.
Play your games and see how you do. That is the true test.

Since few games use more than 2-3 cores, I doubt that going from 6 cores to 8 would help.

If you want to do some testing,

You could experiment with removing one core in the bios. This will tell you how sensitive your games are to the benefits of many cores.

Or, Go to control panel/power options/change plan settings/change advanced power settings/processor power management/maximum processor state/
set to 50% and see how you do.
This will tell you how sensitive you are to individual cpu core performance.
If you need faster cores, you are looking at a Intel chip. They have much faster cores per clock.