would my AMD FX-4100 Quad core processor work with the Sapphire Dual-X AMD Radeon R9 280X OC 3GB GDDR5 Graphics Card?

[John94572]

would my AMD FX-4100 Quad core processor work with the Sapphire Dual-X AMD Radeon R9 280X OC 3GB GDDR5 Graphics Card

Update: If i oc my cpu would it work with the gpu?

 

[littleleo]

Yes, but you may want to OC it if you start bottlenecking.

 

[CTurbo]

Yes it will work, but it's going to bottleneck it to some degree. Some games it will be worse than others. I really recommend upgrading cpus as soon as possible.

 

[Blackzone70]

Yes, your setup will work, but will not be as effective as it could be because your CPU will severely bottleneck your system resulting in a loss of FPS in many CPU intensive games. Your best course of action would be to get a faster CPU. The FX-8320 or the FX-8350 would probaly fit on your current motherboard. If you are on a budget, it would be better to get a slightly cheaper card, (like a R9 270x), and get a better CPU than to have a faster card and be bottlenecked. I know from experience that a slow CPU can limit your system quite a bit.

 

[littleleo]

Yes, but you may want to upgrade the CPU in the future. You may get a bottleneck in some games, but most will only use a max of 4 cores. If you have a issue you can probably overcome it if you can achieve a good OC, so you should be good for awhile.

 

[Blackzone70]

Yes, but you may want to upgrade the CPU in the future. You may get a bottleneck in some games, but most will only use a max of 4 cores. If you have a issue you can probably overcome it if you can achieve a good OC, so you should be good for awhile.

What you are saying is true, most games out now will only use 4 to 6 core, but many of the new games coming out this year (especially console ports) will use all 8 cores of an octo-core processor. His current fx-4100 is reasonably fast (even faster OCd) but many newer games will eat through it's power in no time.