Will AMD FX 8350 bottleneck with R9 290X?

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Because i can clearly see bottleneck with Phenom II X4 965, when i was with Gigabyte R9 270 (witch i still have) - a game like Fallout 4 was running ultra settings (set by the game itself) and had no issues,but now with Gigabyte R9 290x game feels kinda laggy, even graphics card is twice as powerful as R9 270? so i made my mind and looked at forums about new CPU, i found that FX 8350 is best for gaming (like Phenom II x4 965 was the best in his days) so im asking will it bottleneck with R9 290x ?
 
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First of there is no way fx 8350 is best for gaming, from amd side of things fx 8320/fx8320e/fx8370e would be a lot better choice and even then for gaming the fx 6350 would do just as good. Then there is the problem with mobo for your fx chips you need a board with a good vrm design 6+2 or 8+2 (if you intend to overclock, which lets face it you not only should but will need to, fx chips have lower ipc clock vs clock when compared tho phenom 2 x4/x6 chips. Since you mentioned Fallout 4, what you need is a chip with a lot faster cores so your best option would be something i5 haswell
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as you can see a i3 outperforms even the fastest chip that amd has to offer and this is not the only game where it happens. Gaming in general relies and always will rely on strong main thread even with dx 12 the landscape will not change and the fx line will be about as fast as i3.
Depending on your budget go for i5 you can afford, if you do not intend to get unlocked sku and overclock the motherboard will cost you a lot less than amd board would aswell
 
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The 6300 will do everything you want for gaming the same as the 8350 because no games use more than four cores anyways and even if they do, the 6300 still has 2 extra cores. Itll perform the same in game as an 8350 if youre willing and able to overclock.
 
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This guy isnt wrong. He doesnt have a 980Ti, he has an AMD card which tends to work better with an AMD processor, that chart isnt true for him.
 
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Actually, AMD GPUs work worse with AMD processors because AMD's graphics drivers have more CPU overhead, and are thus more affected by AMD's weak per core performance on their CPUs. Ironically, you're better off with an Nvidia card with an AMD processor because it won't get bottlenecked quite as easily.
 
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I am sorry but what, I hope for your sake that you realize it is total bs, any card will work best with the fastest cpu no matter who made it and in case of desktop gaming intel has been far faster ever since corei series came out, also the chart will be more true for him amd driver uses only one core to talk to gpu and the higher the ipc the better, performance gap between amd and intel would only grow with amd gpu in the mix not shrink you have been lead to believe
The whole idea was nothing more than part of amd marketing for failed produts
 
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What I was pointing out was that it's useless to use a benchmark to "prove" that a particular GPU performs better under an Intel CPU than an AMD CPU, when the GPU in question isn't even from the same manufacturer, let alone same model, as the OP has. That's like saying that a Ford Festiva will outperform a Chevy Cruze because a Ford Mustang is faster than a Chevy Impala. They're all completely different models. Just like you can't say, "Since A > B, C must be > D", without also proving that A = C and B = D.

OP: "...when i was with Gigabyte R9 270 (witch i still have) - a game like Fallout 4 was running ultra settings (set by the game itself) and had no issues,but now with Gigabyte R9 290x... "

No mention of an nVidia GPU, let alone a GTX 980Ti. He specifically states that his original GPU was the R9 270, & that he replaced it with an R9 290X.

GTX 980 Ti <> R9 290X <> R9 270. So again, without benchmarks showing the performance of various CPUs with the particular GPUs that the OP has -- especially necessary for a GPU-dependent game like Fallout 4 -- the chart showing a GTX 980Ti's performance is worthless.
 
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I dont think you have the slightest clue of what you are talking about, just because 290x is slower than 980ti doesn't mean the benchmarks is irrelevant, you seem to not understand what the benchmark is supposed to represent, you will never have a benchmarks where every cpu and gpu combination is available, what i have shown you is how fast the cpu is, it doesn't matter that it is paired with 98ti you can see what the fps limits for each cpu are, and the same site has benchmarks for, the cpu performance will not go up so with amd card that doesn't have any benefits from multithreading like nvidia
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anyone taking these two images into consideration would understand what to expect...
 
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I have an 8350 and a 290X. I dont see any bottlenecks. I am able to play most games in ultra settings at 1080p at 60fps. With the new crimson drivers you can apply FPS cap. This helps in kipping noise low. My card never goes over 75c under load.

Remember to unpark the cores to allow the procesor to run at its full potencial. You can find tutorials on youtube.

Note: my prevous build was exactly like yours. I had a phenom II x4. The games run way better with the 8350.
 
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It shows me that all 8 cores is working 100%
 
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If all 8 cores are working at 100%, you are almost certainly bottlenecked by it, but the question is, do you get the FPS you desire? That's what really counts.

Depending on the FPS you are after and the settings you use as a result, any CPU can be a bottleneck. The question is whether or not you are getting the performance you desire.
 
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I mean It shows me all of the cores, none of them are locked, here's image http://www62.zippyshare.com/v/nielbGEe/file.html

 
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2 cores unparked "core 0" "core 1"

 
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