FX8320 with R9 390, can the CPU handle the GPU?

[khaii]

hi guys..,

i am here for my friend.

he have a budget gaming pc, he useing R9 280X with a FX8320, now he wanted to upgrade his graphic card in to new R9 390.

so can the  FX8320  handle R9 390 gpu?? will it become a bottleneck ???

 

Thanks......

[Aytex]

no there will be a bottleneck.

[Castdeath97]

The upgrade is mostly pointless from the r9 280x for 1080p anyway so no.

[DarkBlade2117]

Is don't recommend going any higher for a fx8 chip and for 1080p yeah it's pointless..

[khaii]

The upgrade is mostly pointless from the r9 280x for 1080p anyway so no.

he is currently useing a 1080P 60Hz BenQ monitor but he recently got a Acer 1080p 144Hz moniter thats why he thinking to upgrade...

[1Scotty1]

he is currently useing a 1080P 60Hz BenQ monitor but he recently got a Acer 1080p 144Hz moniter thats why he thinking to upgrade...

I wouldn't say that from a 280X to a 390 is an "upgrade"... very minimal to say the least

[xTrekStorex]

bottleneck. my 8350 is already limiting my 290s.. get at least an i5. even 5GHz on the FX is not gonna help. pipelines and cache are just at their limit. also 280X should already barely exceed the limits of your CPU.

[SkilledRebuilds]

The GPU usage will be lower than expected (not on all games, but thats no excuse to limit urself), especially at 1080p, would be better with 1440p/4K, still not ideal.

[Castdeath97]

he is currently useing a 1080P 60Hz BenQ monitor but he recently got a Acer 1080p 144Hz moniter thats why he thinking to upgrade...

You should have said that before brah. What games does he play.

[SImoHayha]

hi guys..,

i am here for my friend.

he have a budget gaming pc, he useing R9 280X with a FX8320, now he wanted to upgrade his graphic card in to new R9 390.

so can the  FX8320  handle R9 390 gpu?? will it become a bottleneck ???

 

Thanks......

Definitely will bottleneck. Any FX chip will bottleneck the higher cards no matter what.

[khaii]

You should have said that before brah. What games does he play.

Strategy, action, adventure shooting etc he plays most of the modern games, total war games and BF and CoD his fevrt i think

[khaii]

So guys, instead of buying higher GPU can he do a crossfire with the same card ( buy the same card) or with the new R9 380?????

[Castdeath97]

So guys, instead of buying higher GPU can he do a crossfire with the same card ( buy the same card) or with the new R9 380?????

That will be even worse with that processor.

[xTrekStorex]

So guys, instead of buying higher GPU can he do a crossfire with the same card ( buy the same card) or with the new R9 380?????

CF depends on your mobo and I cant recommend it personally.

my 290s dont scale well in games and the FX is a major bottleneck in GTA5 for example. 2nd GPU gets 10-60% load at max.

dont bother.. it will just increase the amount of power and cooling you need to run it

[Guest]

So guys, instead of buying higher GPU can he do a crossfire with the same card ( buy the same card) or with the new R9 380?????

He needs a new processor and motherboard

The CPU will bottleneck any GPU above the 280x

Any GPU within the 390 price range would be a worthless upgrade

[khaii]

Thanks for the advice guys

 

so the conclusion is "not to upgrade in to R9 390 until he upgrade  his CPU"

 

one last question guys , my friend going to get new monitor soon which is a Acer 24inch 1080p 144Hz (XB24OH),

if he connect that monitor in to his current pc (fx8320,8gbram,r9 280X), will he face any screen tearing or any other visual experience problem????

 

ones again Thank you all......

[xTrekStorex]

Thanks for the advice guys

 

so the conclusion is "not to upgrade in to R9 390 until he upgrade  his CPU"

 

one last question guys , my friend going to get new monitor soon which is a Acer 24inch 1080p 144Hz (XB24OH),

if he connect that monitor in to his current pc (fx8320,8gbram,r9 280X), will he face any screen tearing or any other visual experience problem????

 

ones again Thank you all......

depends on the game. to avoid tearing at 144Hz you need to provide steady 144FPS or at least a common factor of 144. a 280X can provide that in some games but not every game especially not on ultra settings. I'd say CSGO should be one of those games running at steady 144Hz if you maybe lower the bloomeffects and enable vsync (vsync = capping FPS to your monitors refresh rate -> 144. since going higher than 144FPS could also cause tearing)

[scifibuford]

Dear confused people I have a fx 8320 black edition with a r9 390 and i have not had any bottle neck issues and trust me i have done plenty of benchmarks dont let the nvidia and intel fan boys tell you otherwise! go with the r9 390.

 

fx 8320 4.5 ghz

gigabyte r9 390(oc 1100 gpu 1630 mem)

16 gigs ram 

250 ssd

 gigabyte 990fxa ud3 motherboard

750 watt psu

[App4that]

2 minutes ago, scifibuford said:

Dear confused people I have a fx 8320 black edition with a r9 390 and i have not had any bottle neck issues and trust me i have done plenty of benchmarks dont let the nvidia and intel fan boys tell you otherwise! go with the r9 390.

 

fx 8320 4.5 ghz

gigabyte r9 390(oc 1100 gpu 1630 mem)

16 gigs ram 

250 ssd

 gigabyte 990fxa ud3 motherboard

750 watt psu

What games do you play. If you want to see what a bottleneck looks like, play ROTTR. 

[xTrekStorex]

24 minutes ago, scifibuford said:

Dear confused people I have a fx 8320 black edition with a r9 390 and i have not had any bottle neck issues and trust me i have done plenty of benchmarks dont let the nvidia and intel fan boys tell you otherwise! go with the r9 390.

 

fx 8320 4.5 ghz

gigabyte r9 390(oc 1100 gpu 1630 mem)

16 gigs ram 

250 ssd

 gigabyte 990fxa ud3 motherboard

750 watt psu

well 1.) dont revive a dead thread and 2.) take a look at peoples rigs or buildlogs of previous rigs. then you would have known that I had a FX-8350 @4.7GHz and 2x R9 290s in CF all on watercooliing and I had MASSIVE bottlenecks. not in games like CSGO or Dota but GTA5 or BF4 - games that actually stress your hardware  finally switched to a 6700K and a spare 780 until Pascal release and I couldnt be happier - fact.

 

still I am by no means an Intel fanboy (except for server and network stuff ) or AMD hater, for the price it's ok - although rather GPUs, their old CPU arch is really not keeping up with modern APIs.

I am looking forward to Zen, but I will not buy it.

[Paralectic]

It can easily handle it, trust me.

[Nena Trinity]

1. No very rare to bottleneck if you have it at 4.5GHz or more! (Arma & DayZ etc...)

2. Wait for Polaris because upgrade 280X to 390 is not really worth it...

[Citadelen]

I own an FX-9590 and an R9 290X, GPU usage regularly reaches 100% in intensive gaming, the driver overhead problems are being blown way out of proportion, upgrading to an i5 will yield benefits, but these will be relatively hard to notice in the majority of games, don't worry about a severe bottleneck.

[scifibuford]

1. Didnt know thread was dead

2. just tired of the intel amd war its a fact that amd has cheaper products

but that does not mean bad my fx8320 will run anything fast all games even when i had hd 7850 it ran all games on high no lag so i thing people who are getting bottle necks its something else in your system causing that

i play games @2560 x1440 or greater with new card r9 390 no problems none i also use 3d mark scored 9400 on fire strike. 

[scifibuford]

Almost forgot i play games like

call of duty blk ops 3

shadow of mordor

the witcher 3

battlefield hardline

almost any new game 

no bottlenecking ever 

 

fx 8320 4.5 ghz

gigabyte r9 390(oc 1100 gpu 1630 mem)

16 gigs ram 

250 ssd

 gigabyte 990fxa ud3 motherboard

750 watt psu