Bottlenecking

[Mr_Cookie]

Just wondering if a i7-860 bottle necks a HD 6950, and if a A8-3500k bottle necks it too.

[Peter Vaughan Truslow]

bottlenecking. I hate the word. what you should ask is if your framerates will be CPU bound or GPU bound. if you think your CPU is bottlenecking your GPU, then your framerates are CPU bound. if you think your GPU is bottlenecking your CPU, then your framerates are GPU bound(usually the case)

we should all stop using the word bottleneck because it gives the idea the something is being held back, when the case is really that something is ALWAYS held back. that's the nature of things. 

[OfficialJsP]

bottlenecking. I hate the word. what you should ask is if your framerates will be CPU bound or GPU bound. if you think your CPU is bottlenecking your GPU, then your framerates are CPU bound. if you think your GPU is bottlenecking your CPU, then your framerates are GPU bound(usually the case)

we should all stop using the word bottleneck because it gives the idea the something is being held back, when the case is really that something is ALWAYS held back. that's the nature of things. 

 

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[Peter Vaughan Truslow]

i apologize for the rant. I couldn't help it. with that CPU you shouldn't have much issue in most games.

the A8 on the other hand I wouldn't know. not much of an AMD expert but it wouldn't be significant enough to make a CPU upgrade necessary

[Majestic]

Bottlenecking is a perfectly fine word to describe the phenomenon. However, it is utterly pointless to talk about without context.

I haven't been here long, but this question gets recycled quite allot here.

[Clear17Mud]

first yes it is getting "bottle necked"

second don't get an A8-3500k (thats not a cpu) but get the 760k its the a8 but without the graphics inside so you will have a descrete card anyways it sounds like.

 

A8-3500k its not a CPU must have a typo I googled it

[Yoann Craniumz]

Never buy an apu with a gfx card. Get yourself a 6300 or 8320 or an i5 if you fear any CPU limitations.