Upgrading my current system

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I have at the moment :

AMD FX-8350 4GHz Socket AM3+ 8MB Cache Retail Boxed Processor

Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3P Socket AM3+ 7.1 Channel Audio ATX Motherboard

Crucial BLS2C8G3D18ADS3CEU Sport XT 16GB kit (8GB x 2) Sport XT Ballistix 240-pin DIMM DDR3-1866 CL10 (10-10-10-30) PC3-14900 Memory Module

EVGA 1070 SC

And am looking to upgrade... any one have some recommendations am looking at about £450 ish less if possible. Or do i need to upgrade ? is there infact some bottlenecking (no idea what the term bottlenecking is) i just hear it a lot when it comes to cpu+gpu.

Thanks.
 
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The FX 8350 will definitely bottleneck the GTX 1070. A bottleneck is when a particular part of the system (CPU in this case) cannot keep up with other parts of the system (like the GPU) and effectively limits the performance of the machine below the performance that would be had if the CPU could keep up with your 1070.

I'd suggest the following

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-6500 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor (£200.98 @ YoYoTech)
Motherboard: Asus Z170-A ATX LGA1151 Motherboard (£149.49 @ Scan.co.uk)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory (£98.47 @ Scan.co.uk)
Total: £448.94
Prices include shipping...
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Personally, I'd say you don't need an upgrade. The FX-8350 is near the top of the line for the older AMD processors and should still perform very well. It won't come close to Intel's newest processor line, but should still be sufficient and, IMO, the performance increase would not be worth the overhead cost of an upgrade.

-Wolf sends
 
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The FX 8350 will definitely bottleneck the GTX 1070. A bottleneck is when a particular part of the system (CPU in this case) cannot keep up with other parts of the system (like the GPU) and effectively limits the performance of the machine below the performance that would be had if the CPU could keep up with your 1070.

I'd suggest the following

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-6500 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor (£200.98 @ YoYoTech)
Motherboard: Asus Z170-A ATX LGA1151 Motherboard (£149.49 @ Scan.co.uk)
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory (£98.47 @ Scan.co.uk)
Total: £448.94
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-11-07 21:29 GMT+0000
 
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The thing is the CPU *could* bottleneck on game doesn't mean it is, it would really depend on the games your playing. Basically the real question are you playing games now that you don't feel are running as smooth and they should ? I'm not talking some benchmark that should some with an i5/i7 hitting 200FPS in CS go but you only get 160 FPS when you run the same bench. If you playing games that favor single thread performance or games that don't seem to be running as smoothly as you expect (please note that most new games can take a good 3+ months to get to a good "state" with patches and bug fixes) then it would be worth it to upgrade.
 
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Would recommend this but you would also need an aftermarket CPU cooler.
 
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Couldn't he save money on a different mobo since he would not be getting K series CPU.
 
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but a bottleneck , is that not when the cpu would reach 100% or am i not reading this right ? cos my cpu never goes near 100% maybe 65-70%
 
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"Bottleneck" is by far an overused and overrated term; used to describe when one computer component limits the capabilities of another computer component. The fact of the matter is, if 95% of gamers turned off their FPS trackers, they wouldn't notice any limitations. If 99% of gamers simply turned down their graphic settings, there wouldn't be a bottleneck at all.

I mean, seriously, all "Ultra" settings do for you is allow you to see 12 leaves on a tree branch and 22 blades of grass, as opposed to high settings in which you only get to see 5 leaves on a tree branch and only 10 blades of grass.

-Wolf sends
 
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ok i just ran rise of the tomb raider in dx11 (dx12 would not go above 30fps no idea why)
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i see my cpu hit 100% a couple of times and the gpu was not at 100% so i guess if the gpu is not near the 100% mark , its waiting cos it not getting enough info fast enough ?
 
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