Will it bottle neck?

[klaverman]

Do you think getting an SAPPHIRE Dual-X OC R9 280X will bottle neck this system?
System:
AMD FX 4300 4 cores
8 GB Ram dual channel
gigabyte 78LMT-usb3 rev 4.1

 

[Novuake]

Your CPU is the bottleneck, not the card. But I would still get it if I were you.

 

[Patrick Guenter]

u will be able to upgrade the cpu.
a possible option would be to got for the R9 290X and a 8 core?

 

[Novuake]

u will be able to upgrade the cpu.
a possible option would be to got for the R9 290X and a 8 core?

No, its NOT possible on the motherboard he has. That board only actually supports up to 6300 and even they throttle badly due to the bad VRM cooling ETC.

 

[klaverman]

where did you get the info about it can only run 6 core 6300

 

[Novuake]

A LOT of experience with systems.

The 760G chipset that it uses and the cheap VRMs and VRM cooling causes any 8 core CPU to not run at NEAR the speed that it is rated for. Most users are reporting speeds of lower than 3GHz when they drop an 8 core into those boards.

A simple search of the forum will corroborate this.

 

[klaverman]

i found this http://www.cpu-upgrade.com/mb-Gigabyte/GA-78LMT-USB3(rev._4.1).html

 

[Novuake]

Yep, trust me on this one.
Even Gigabytes site says official support for the 8 core CPU.
It works, but not at the speeds its supposed to and the boards usually don't last long.

http://www.gigabyte.com/support-downloads/cpu-support-popup.aspx?pid=4305

 

[klaverman]

Ok thats Man!!
Im keen to run bf4 on ultra on about 40-50 frames
I was thinking AMD 6300 and a Hd 7870 or a gtx 660. What do you think and what do you recommend to me.

 

[Novuake]

Ok thats Man!!
Im keen to run bf4 on ultra on about 40-50 frames
I was thinking AMD 6300 and a Hd 7870 or a gtx 660. What do you think and what do you recommend to me.

Well Battlefield 4 is a pretty intense game.

If you have a 1080p monitor you will struggke at Ultra.

But that setup (6300 + GTX660/HD7870) is a decent build that should give you at least decent frames at high.

 

[klaverman]

At the moment i run a fx 4300 and a 7750 and the monitor res is 1600x900 and i ran bf4 beta on high at about 30-35 fps. Does that change any thing you just said

 

[Novuake]

At the moment i run a fx 4300 and a 7750 and the monitor res is 1600x900 and i ran bf4 beta on high at about 30-35 fps. Does that change any thing you just said

At 1600x900 it changes yes, that setup will run BF4 very well then. Maybe even higher FPS than you want.

 

[Avro Arrow]

Upgrade your motherboard to this one and you will fix a lot of your problems, remember, the AMD 7xx chipsets were designed for the Phenom II X4 at most. This motherboard is an AMD 970 and will therefore run crossfire at x16/x16 natively and will also make your CPU faster because it will have HyperTransport 3.0 instead of 2.0. The best part is that it's an ASRock (good name), it has solid-state capacitors and only costs $65:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157364
With that solid foundation in place, you'll still have plenty of money left over for a Radeon HD 7970:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150665
I say this because the R9-280X costs at least $300 but this card costs $280 ($250 after rebate) so your rebate and the lower price will pay for most of your new motherboard. The HD 7970 is exactly the same card as the R9-280X and it also comes with three free current games from AMD. Can't go wrong with that can you? LOL

 

[klaverman]

The thing is that New Egg does not ship to New Zealand.