CPU BottleNeck?

Ray Marree

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I was wondering if anyone could help me out. I am running an AMD FX-6100 CPU with an ASUS 7970. Does anyone see a potential bottle neck here? I was running 2 Radeon 6870 in Xfire but I have upgraded and am wondering if the CPU is bottlenecking the GPU.

Comments would be lovely. Thanks
 
lets see current spec'd gpu and cpu. I highly doubt its hindering ya at all. now if ya like said 7970 with a X2 3800 or even say a dual cored AM2 or 3 proc I'd say highly likely. But as there isnt much over the 6100 I think ur fine. (2500K or 2600K would be better)
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Someone needs to do a ""bottlenecking"" thread with tests and trials, pretty graphs and so on, old and new cpus & memory, just so we can link to it everytime these threads come up.

People worry far too much about it.
 
That would be such a massive article though, Rasta! Disproportionally so for the usefulness it would have I think. If it was done properly there would be so many factors to account for: from resolutions and multi-gpu setups to different games which put different and unequal pressures on the cpu/gpu plus the article would be constantly going out of date.

Bottlenecking should be one of, if not the primary, factors in deciding on an upgrade cycle though. Maybe that would a good article to have.

@Meat Vendor. I agree with SIN. I would be surprised if the cpu bottlenecked a single gpu. Crossfire, maybe and trifire definitely.

As rasta says - people worry about bottlenecking too much.

As long as you are getting 60fps at the resolution and graphics settings you want to play at in the games you play (each of those things matters) then it makes no difference. Bear in mind that many tvs have a 60hz refesh rate so it doesn't matter if your pc is pumping out 120fps, the screen is still only going to update at 60. Even if you have an 120hz screen your brain isn't going to notice the difference!

If you aren't getting 60 then this is where overclocking gets into its own:

If you overclock your gpu and the fps increases then you know it's the bottleneck.

If you OC the cpu and fps increases then you know it's the cpu/mobo.
 
If only we could have such guides. I personally would like to so results for 2560x1440+ resolutions but i happy enough readin 1920x1080. Surely there is some rule of thumb like if you mix something more than 2 gens apart then there will start to be reduced performance and so on

Dear dell. Stop offering us awesome competitions that i havent won yet and give to a 30inch ultra sharp for giggles.

Thank you kindly
 
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