WIll my CPU bottleneck?

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will an athlon x4 750k bottleneck my GTX 750ti? i want to play Skyrim w/ mods, and assetto corsa, and a few others like those. (Dark Souls?)
 
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Yeah i know that GTA IV and Skyrim are notorious for that, but i could live with not maxing Skyrim or Assetto Corsa. I was just throwing out the most hardware intensive games i could think of that i would be playing. Do you guys think i could play things like The Witcher 2 with this, on mid to high settings with it never dipping below 30? I'm just throwing around Hypotheticals because I ordered these parts and I am very, very, excited to build my first PC. Should be here on monday :).

 
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I looked into that, but im on a tight budget, and i didnt want to upgrade my PSU. The 750ti is plenty for me, and i think it only uses 68w if i remember correctly.

 
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Thanks for that Link! 60 fps is pretty darn good for me, but with a little bit of OC i can get really good performace! I can safely say that before i mess with Overclocking, i'm gonna buy a new CPU cooler.
 
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Are you building this, or is this an upgrade. If either I would say get an FX 6300 or 8320. That way if you upgrade the GPU you will have no issues, The X4 you are talking about is going to bottleneck slightly in the more CPU heavy games.

If you can not, that should do to play most games, just dont expect max settings. Skyrim only uses I think 2 cpu cores last time I checked!

Keep in mind Dark souls 1 is a train wreak on pc, the only way to get it to run well seems to be a certain mod. Keep this in mind, dark souls 2 however is very well optimized and should run fine on that rig!

My last tip is play in 720p When I ran a 7750 and A8 apu (Old rig gave it to my father )I was able to play skyrim on high settings!
 
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Its not a true 8 core no, but its not like 3. each 2 cores share resources or something like that theirs more too it, regardless my FX 6300 maxs skyrim and everything else I play. They are more then fast enough for most gaming these days and rule in editing and rendering in such these days while not costing to much . An I3 gets torn apart by them.

Just not dark souls 1 till I installed a certain mod, that game was terribly optimized.
 
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yeah i know what you mean intel doesnt share resoucres(unless you count cache) but amd has their 6 cores split into 3 sets of 2 where theres a pool of resources for both of the cores. fx 6300 and fx 8320 will still play games very good. rendering and video edting are meant for multi core they'll even beat a i7 at it if they dont use HT. I think intel is releasing its own 6 and 8 core processors mainstream so i think amd will lose if that happens
 
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i7 and fx 8 cores are comparable when used in rendering or programs that utilize multi cores. The i7 can gain a marginable lead if the program uses HT. Intel does have good single core performance sorry if it sounded like i said amd was better intel beats all amd's chips at higher cost
 
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The GTX 750ti is the go-to recommendation for people with limited power supplies. The Athlon 750 is a solid budget CPU (though I wish they still made the Phemon II 9x5s which were awesome mid-range CPUs at their peak and then awesome budget ones that I'd still recommend if they were around). I would strongly look into the new Pentium G3258 anniversary CPU as well as it is a very recommendable budget CPU.
 
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