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By how much will my CPU bottleneck my GPU

CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
Or the OP could just get a £20 cooler and overclock their current chip?? Or even find the AM3+ copper cooler for £10 and use that??

The stock cooler for the A8 6600K is the AMD aluminium cooler of fail and it would not surprise me if the CPU is even downclocking under heavy load too.

Plus like I said,what games??

FO4 is a modern game which has mods which make the game far more playable with little or no visual loss.

Or it could be PS2 which can tank on any modern system during heavy battles.
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I've changed the cooler for my CPU before and overclocked it to 4.2ghz.
Also the games I want to game are new games with medium to high settings.
 
If new games mean Fallout 4, Battlefield 1, Infinite Warfare, etc then you might as well bite the bullet and get new skylake/2nd hand Haswell.

The basic end of the day fact is that the FM2+ socket is totally crippled compared to the AM3+ and Intel line up and will always be an issue no matter what you do.

My 2 cents - keep the GTX950 and buy new H81M board and second hand i5-4670/4590/4460/etc, re-use your old ram.

Total upgrade cost and ability to run all the latest games at 1080p medium @60fps - around €160.

I'm sure you'd be able to get €50 back by selling the FM2 board and A8-6600.
 
Sebjay said:
Alright thanks. Would it be worth selling my GTX 950 and getting a 1050ti, i3 6100 and a motherboard that supports it or should I just put extra money into getting an even better processor?
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Personally, I would go down the used route and get yourself something with a quad core rather than an i3, I found that dual cores are beginning to bottleneck a bit in newer titles where even a modestly clocked quad can play smoothly.

If anything it will last you a little longer.

For example...

I couldn't play BF1 online with a heavily overclocked G3258 Dual core CPU and an overclocked R9 280X.... However I could play with a 5 year old HD5850 1Gb when coupled with a haswell i5 cpu.
 
Figo said:
Personally, I would go down the used route and get yourself something with a quad core rather than an i3, I found that dual cores are beginning to bottleneck a bit in newer titles where even a modestly clocked quad can play smoothly.

If anything it will last you a little longer.

For example...

I couldn't play BF1 online with a heavily overclocked G3258 Dual core CPU and an overclocked R9 280X.... However I could play with a 5 year old HD5850 1Gb when coupled with a haswell i5 cpu.
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I agree with the G3258 (2 cores 2 threads) not being very suited for today's games. An i3 however will not bottleneck and in fact an 4400 or 4500 (2 cores 4 threads) would be more than enough for any but the most intensive tasks.
 
Go for it, some games will bottleneck and some won't. People like to throw around the bottleneck statement around a lot. But in reality it game dependent. If a game is CPU heavy Arma2 3 and Dayz SA come to mind (Project Reality 4 Engine) they won't run very well. You could always upgrade your CPU and mono later if your not happy
 
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