Wondering about Fx-8320 and HD7870 Ghz Bottlenecking...

[theodean]

I recently built a system containing the following:

AMD FX-8320 3.5Ghz (Turbo boost to 4.0Ghz)
Sapphire HD7870 Ghz Edition OC
G-skill RipJaw x 2133 8gb (2x4gb)
Asus M5A97 R2.0
Antec Three Hundred
WD Blue 1TB
OCZ 550w PSU
Windows 7 64bit
And some crappy brand optical drive


Just wondering if the FX-8320 is gonna bottleneck the 7870 at stock/un-overclocked CPU speed (currently at about 3.7Ghz according to bios). Not really sure how to measure this.

I know a lot of people will tell me to OC, but I'm using stock heatsink/fan atm, and don't really wanna change it out very soon as I just built the damn thing. Am I going to see a massive performance boost, or just a little? Or is there no bottleneck at all?

Cheers

 

[maurelie]

Not a chance, even R9 290X will run just fine

 

[theodean]

Not a chance, even R9 290X will run just fine

It's just that I have seen videos on youtube, which claim to be using Fx-8320/HD7870, and are getting a lot better performance than me. Wondering if you have any tips on performance boosting?

 

[maurelie]

Is everything updated on your system? Windows, GPU drivers, chipset? And on what resolution and setting are you playing games and wich games?

 

[jay2577]

A non reference cooler and overclock.
Latest drivers for your graphics card.
Disable AA

 

[theodean]

Is everything updated on your system? Windows, GPU drivers, chipset? And on what resolution and setting are you playing games and wich games?

I have the latest of both of those, and play in 1920x1080. I haven't yet tried BF4 or any brand new games, apart from Dayz standalone, which I get pretty bad performance in (hardly getting 40fps on medium settings). I understand that the game is badly optimized, I just expected this card to pack a bigger punch. I might just have high expectations. I've also tried Rising Storm (the latest Red Orchestra standalone expansion thingy), and get decent frames at very high/ultra settings, but when I start whacking on the Post Processing, anti aliasing, the fps drops significantly, especially in action packed moments.

 

[maurelie]

Bot of those games are not optimized good. I've heard some people that on RO2 with even better cards have the same problem as you with the frames drop in certain scenarios. That is happening on RO2 because they changed the foliage quality. Low now is what medium was during beta.