Will an FX 4300 bottleneck 2 GTX 708's in SLI

[mistygammerhd]

I have an AMD FX 4300 overclocked to 4.7ghz and I have bought 2 780 Ti's and am wondering if they will be bottlenecked?????

 

[Gam3r01]

That processor would bottleneck a single 780Ti.
You should really invest in new hardware, a Ryzen 5 would be a great budget option.

On a side note, why did you buy two old graphics cards for SLI?

 

[mistygammerhd]

But I got 32 gb of hyper x fury ram for free so I don't really wanna go to ryzen because ddr4 is so expensive what if I went to an 8370e or an fx 9590

 

[sizzling]

Huge bottleneck, the whole FX range are weak by modern standards. The FX9XXX are a nightmare to get running right, few motherboards support them and they need high end cooling and PSU. The FX8XXX are little improvement in single core performance and 'e' version might actually give worse gaming performance in certain games.

 

[mistygammerhd]

Well does anyone have any Intel chips that I should get with a motherboard that supports SLI and supports ddr3

 

[sizzling]

If overclocking you can go Z97 i7 4790k or if not overclocking Z97 & i7 4790. It's still a few generations old so limits upgrade options but it supports DDR3. Only some 'Z' boards support sli so be careful when selecting.

I would not go older i5, 4 core/threads is a bit low these days and effectively modern i3 level.

 

[Gam3r01]

Honestly there is no point in getting old hardware just because you have some RAM already.
Saving a few bucks on RAM to move to a dead platform, and lose out on ~15% or more performance is just a bad idea.