Fx 8120 bottleneck?

[Tola]

will my friends fx 8120 bottleneck the 780ti he's getting in a week?

[Coconut Money Affiliates]

Slightly

[Tola]

Slightly

will it be a big performance dip because he is getting a new cpu and mobo when he has enough money (Likely december).

[Coconut Money Affiliates]

will it be a big performance dip because he is getting a new cpu and mobo when he has enough money (Likely december).

I said slightly. Like 5% less than the 8350, which nothing has bottlenecked so far. 

[Tola]

I said slightly. Like 5% less than the 8350, which nothing has bottlenecked so far. 

ok thank u.

[SparkySamZa]

780Ti and a AMD chip :L ouch , need to get one of them i7's bro  

[ForsakenLive]

780Ti and a AMD chip :L ouch , need to get one of them i7's bro

this is just dum.

[ZerueLX11]

will my friends fx 8120 bottleneck the 780ti he's getting in a week?

 

It won't as much. If I recall FX chips still only use PCIe 2.0 so that also cause a slight bottle neck. The bottle will be very low though it wont even matter. FX chips are built to last  

 

Why not get a 290 or 290x? Vastly cheaper and correct me if I'm wrong but your friend probably isn't using a 120Hz monitor where he needs the extra fps.

[i_build_nanosuits]

pcie2.0 wont bottleneck any high end gpu's, the bandwith on pcie2.0 wont get saturated even by the fastest gpus.

the fx-8120 will be a bottleneck in some old tech badly optimised games that use only a couple cores to process all the data...but most modern games are gpu bound and use many cores on the cpu so in all those he wont notice any bottlenecks...does he run that chip at stock or does he have some overclock? if stock, overclocking the crap out of that beast would be a good idea...

[Tola]

It won't as much. If I recall FX chips still only use PCIe 2.0 so that also cause a slight bottle neck. The bottle will be very low though it wont even matter. FX chips are built to last

 

Why not get a 290 or 290x? Vastly cheaper and correct me if I'm wrong but your friend probably isn't using a 120Hz monitor where he needs the extra fps.

He's already got the 780ti from his friend who sold it to him new for $600. 

[Tola]

pcie2.0 wont bottleneck any high end gpu's, the bandwith on pcie2.0 wont get saturated even by the fastest gpus.

the fx-8120 will be a bottleneck in some old tech badly optimised games that use only a couple cores to process all the data...but most modern games are gpu bound and use many cores on the cpu so in all those he wont notice any bottlenecks...does he run that chip at stock or does he have some overclock? if stock, overclocking the crap out of that beast would be a good idea...

Its still at stock. He won't OC (for some reason).

[SparkySamZa]

this is just dum.

not reall look at the benchmarks, when it comes to high end GPU's AMD chips fall behind the pack compared to intel based cpu's so getting s i7 or a really high end i5 should be a must or at least highly recommended 

[D3MON]

will my friends fx 8120 bottleneck the 780ti he's getting in a week?

http://www.techspot.com/review/734-battlefield-4-benchmarks/page6.html

no

[ForsakenLive]

not reall look at the benchmarks, when it comes to high end GPU's AMD chips fall behind the pack compared to intel based cpu's so getting s i7 or a really high end i5 should be a must or at least highly recommended 

Look at GAME benchmarks, look at the settings used in them, and look all those possible variants, and see for yourself that the performance of, something like a FX 6300 is only 5-6 fps compared to a 4770k, and in some GPU bound games it can be as little as 2-3 frames.

A Synthetic benchmark shows all the possible calculations your system can do at the same time, where a hyperthreaded i7 can beat the crap out of everything.

However in games multiple cores and hyperthreading still needs to catch up, ALOT. Recommending an i7 to someone that will only be gaming is as I´ve stated before, just dum. On 95% of the games the difference between an i5 and i7 is 1-2 frames.