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What is my bottleneck?

TheTacoSniper
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Hi guys, Taco here asking you what the next thing I need to upgrade in my PC. Here are my specs (may not be 100% correct on all the parts).                                                                                                                                                     Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3
CPU: Amd Fx-8150 8 core @ 3.6 GHz
GPU: PNY Gtx 770 2 GB oc edition
RAM:8 GB patriot viper something. H D: 1 tb Seagate barracuda 7200rpm
Ssd: 120gb Samsung 840 something
PSU: Corsair CX 750 watt
Case: Cooler master HAF 912 I think
Mouse: Razer Naga
keyboard:Razer blackwidow ultimate 2013
Headphones: some random Sony fluffy ones
Monitor: Some random HP 1080p 60hz

Thanks and sorry for weirdness I'm doing this on my phone. Don't judge my Razer products I like it.

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Probably that CPU, because Fx- 8150 was a terrible fail for an 8 core cpu, it didn't really perform any better at all than a same processor clocked at same speed with 4 cores. So, I think that is the best you can upgrade right now. That being said, in most of the games it still wont bottleneck a 770. 

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I guess your CPU but not by anything worth spending the money for an upgrade over. To be honest, nothing is bottlenecking anything in this current configuration and bottlenecking is something that is blown out of proportion.   

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If I were you the only upgrade I do would be a ram upgrade to 16gbs or more but that's just me. 

 

Hmm you could upgrade the GPU and mail me that 770 ya know? 
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Is your current performance unsatisfactory?

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As everyone else is saying: if you are to upgrade something it'd be the CPU.   I personally would probably slap a better cooler on it and overclock it rather than buying something new, though without knowing which motherboard you have it's hard to say how successful that'd be.  If you do get a better CPU, you may want to consider intel as the 8350 would be about 15~20% better.

 

I would just stick with what you have.  I'm only bottlenecked by my FX- 8120 when I try to go over 60 fps in modern games.

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As everyone else is saying: if you are to upgrade something it'd be the CPU.   I personally would probably slap a better cooler on it and overclock it rather than buying something new, though without knowing which motherboard you have it's hard to say how successful that'd be.  If you do get a better CPU, you may want to consider intel as the 8350 would be about 15~20% better.

 

I would just stick with what you have.  I'm only bottlenecked by my FX- 8120 when I try to go over 60 fps in modern games.

I figured out what mobo I have, its the Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3

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I figured out what mobo I have, its the Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3

Yeah that board isn't really meant for overclocking (no vrm heatsink among other things).  As others have said, don't upgrade unless you feel you need to, otherwise wait for a good motherboard/processor combo as your next upgrade.

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