FX6100 and a GTX 970. Bottleneck?

Just wondering if the GTX 970 would be bottlenecked at all by the 6100? I have it OC'd to 4.2ghz.. had it at 4.5 at one point but was too lazy at the time to run stress tests to make sure it was stable.

I'm in the midst of upgrading the whole PC, going to switch to intel, but I'd like to do the GPU first.. As long as the card won;t go to waste with that CPU.

Nope.

Depends on the game. in most well threaded games no ( or at least not much ) but do expect bottlenecks in games like Skyrim or some MMO's or strategy games

Okay thanks. I'll be making the jump to an i5 or i7 come the new year so I'm hoping to see a substantial jump in performance when that happens.

Almost everything tends to bottleneck everything else. The thing is how much performance loss are you willing to take compared to the current performance leader in the market. That said since you are upgrading by stages buy the 970, who cares if it's bottlenecked right now, you're going to upgrade to something that will bottleneck it less anyways.

Skyrim makes use of four threads so he wont see too much of an issue, but with MMO's most only use 1-2 cores so your 970 usage will be low.

Looking to do the same. Going with either the r290x or gtx970 to pair with my fx6100. I'm running crossfired 6870s right now, and their vram is showing it's age. May move up to the 8 core fx chip later, but for now I'm gonna upgrade gpus.

Forget the 290 series, especially when DX12 is around the corner. in DX12 ready games that FX 6100 will not any problem feeding any gpu.

Yes it is a big bottleneck to your framerate if you want to play above 60fps.

That 6100 is junk and your bottleneck.

Yeah, POSSIBLY for DirectX 12 games, which won't be a mainstream thing until probably two years from now and won't help for games not using it, that CPU is a bottleneck...

Actually once DX12 hits the market it's features will become the standard for most AAA based games. Now the devs that dont take the time for DX12 will use DX11.3 which will still include most of the cpu side optimizations. Porting current and upcoming DX11 games to DX12 or 11.3 is not that big of a hassle. There is a very good chance that we could start seeing upgrade patches this year and upcoming games next year being ready for DX12/11.3. It wont take years as some think DX12 is not adding nothing drastically new to the table besides much needed optimizations.

was a little surprised when I saw this back up lol anyway been running the 6100 oc'd to 4.2 and the 970 for a few months now and I've had no issues hitting 60 fps in pretty well every game I play, except any RTS's or CPU heavy games. I noticed a big jump when i switched to the 970 in all games though. I woulnd't be too worried about the CPU bottlenecking it too much. I am switching to intel once skylake drops though, A buddy of mine has an i5 paired with his 970 and he does have a bit if a performance increase in most games when compared to mine.

currently yes it does for many games... Even higher chips like the 8350 is getting surpassed in performance with I3's...This may or may not change with the release of dx12 with current games, only way to find out is wait and see.

I went from an fx8150 to an i7 4790k. The performance difference is night and day. everything is way smoother and more responsive. Throw that AMD chip away. BTW this is my first intel chip. I have always had AMD

Yeah this is a real freaking shame too, AMD really started falling completely behind when intel released its core 2 duo's and quads.. If only the cpu market is as competitive as the gpu market currently is..

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