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    bubblypotater reacted to Aniallation in Will an AMD 1090T bottleneck a GTX 970   
    I also have a Phenom II X6 (1055T), I also upgraded from a 7870 to a 970, so honestly if it's anyone to ask it's probably me.
     
    It truly depends on what kind of games you play. I play a variety of single-threaded MMOs to AAA titles that are well-optimized for multi-threaded CPUs. In 95% of cases a bottleneck is present, but in a much lower number is it actually noticeable to the point where it heavily hinders gameplay. In every case though, it's still a bigger increase over the 7870 then if you were to keep the 7870 and upgrade to a 4690K instead. So yes your CPU is old, but a GPU upgrade is giving you a bigger performance increase then a CPU upgrade would, so you did make the right choice.
     
    What kind of performance improvement you'd get depends on what games we're talking about. In some games it can be a massive difference, in some it'll be a difference you won't even notice. Compared to my 7870, in AAA games like GTA V and COD:AW I went from 40-50 FPS at 1080p medium settings to solid 60 at high-ultra. In heavily single-threaded games like League of Legends, I went from 45-60 FPS to... 45-60 FPS (cause same single-threaded IPC of a Core 2 Duo ftw) . Personally, I'd wait for DX12 before looking into getting a new CPU, but it doesn't hurt to save up for one in the mean time.
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    bubblypotater reacted to Aniallation in Will an AMD 1090T bottleneck a GTX 970   
    http://www.techspot.com/review/956-dying-light-benchmarks/page5.html
     
    You'll technically get better performance, but in reality, if you have a 60Hz monitor, 61 FPS to 80 FPS is zero perceivable difference. 
     
    SSD has no impact on FPS, and RAM is fine as long as you have 8GB or higher (it's also very cheap and easy to upgrade). Like I said before if you have no intentions of ever overclocking try to save up for a HT Xeon or i7 instead so that in the future you can leverage the better thread optimization of DX12. On the other hand if you'll eventually learn to overclock then get a good board and cooler for that i5 in the first place.
     
    CPU should be your next upgrade, but it doesn't have to be done right away.
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    bubblypotater reacted to tnlich in Will an AMD 1090T bottleneck a GTX 970   
    Im probably going to  get Trolled to hell and back but a suggestion is all this is.
    http://pcpartpicker.com/p/yys6ZL
     
    Just something to think about.. 4690 is nice but just for gaming etc you don't need to go tip top of the i5 line.. 3.2 quad same set real decent and nice priced board . The cooler ill back it up till I die its real good and priced right.. it will cool anything. 5 pipes in there so yea. also gives extra hooks for push pull. GL to your decision.
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