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Would AMD FX 8370 Bottleneck GTX 970?

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Depends on the game; some games might bottleneck, some won't.

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I currently have an AMD FX 6350 and I am wondering if upgrading the processor to the FX 8370 would be a good idea before buying the GTX 970.

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Depends on the game; some games might bottleneck, some won't.

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If you were using Intel processors you wouldn't have this kind of questions. Even you had a i5 only.

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In games like guild wars 2, yes, most games shouldn't care that much for CPU though.

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If you were using Intel processors you wouldn't have this kind of questions. Even you had a i5 only.

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I currently have an AMD FX 6350 and I am wondering if upgrading the processor to the FX 8370 would be a good idea before buying the GTX 970.

It will depend on the game. However most games will perform the same on the 6350 and 8370 provided they were at the same clock speed. I'd say save the money and don't upgrade the CPU if you're only gaming. There will really only be a benefit from the 2 extra cores if you're video editing or rendering.

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Depends on the game, in Multi-Thread whores like Battlefield 4, it will probably be on par with Intel CPUs. But more CPU bound games like Skyrim will bottleneck it, although not by a massive amount.

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If you were using Intel processors you wouldn't have this kind of questions. Even you had a i5 only.

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The main question is do you really need a upgrade? But if you were to go with a 8370 then it will really depend on the game if it bottlenecks with the 970. If you are gonna upgrade then i would suggest the 8320E over the 8370 because you can OC the 8320 to match the speeds of a 8350/70 and it runs cooler and uses less power.

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No it will not, I have never suffered a bottleneck because of my gpu (even in highly single threaded games). 

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For gaming, there's no reason to upgrade. They have the same single threaded performance if you taking overclocking into account, and the 3/6 cores of the FX-6350 are already plenty for any kind of gaming. You'd have to go to an i5 for single-threaded performance without sacrificing multi-threaded performance.

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If you were using Intel processors you wouldn't have this kind of questions. Even you had a i5 only.

I agree!

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I currently have an AMD FX 6350 and I am wondering if upgrading the processor to the FX 8370 would be a good idea before buying the GTX 970.

Nope, you're good to go with your 6350. Save your 8370 money for future platform upgrade, either Intel's or AMD's next gen chipsets.

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Mostly not. Some future games might. But there aren't any present ones that would do that.

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Skylake + Pascal in 2016 is going to be the next best thing, unless you really need to, I wouldnt bother upgrading the mobo and CPU until then.

Linus is my fetish.

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in many games, yes.

The upgrade is not worth it, what you need is faster/stronger cores and this is found only on intel's CPU...i'd suggest you sell your AM3+ stuff and purchase this instead:

 

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If you were using Intel processors you wouldn't have this kind of questions. Even you had a i5 only.

get out you idiot fanboy....

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get out you idiot fanboy....

he's right...intel is peace of mind...you know it will run it very well...EVERY TIME

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he's right...intel is peace of mind...you know it will run it very well...EVERY TIME

That does come at a cost that  some cannot afford.

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By going from AMD topics to AMD topics, you never read about how AMD CPU don't have enough processing power to get most of the graphic cards ??

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If you were using Intel processors you wouldn't have this kind of questions. Even you had a i5 only.

 

Not so, my laptop i7 bottle necks my dedicated graphics card.

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Ever heard of type-M processors ?

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If you were using Intel processors you wouldn't have this kind of questions. Even you had a i5 only.

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If you were using Intel processors you wouldn't have this kind of questions. Even you had a i5 only.

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Its a truth that too many people cant handle. AMD CPUs are a huge bottleneck, even more so with SLI or Xfire.

Linus is my fetish.

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