Bottleneck possible?

[IceTalian]

So my friend want's me to build his PC and he ordered an AMD FX 6300 w/ a GTX 770, is this a bottleneck?

[Enderman]

yeah a little

depends on the game though

 

some will be fine, others you will have quite a bit lower fps compared to an i5

[Aniallation]

So my friend want's me to build his PC and he ordered an AMD FX 6300 w/ a GTX 770, is this a bottleneck?

Nope. FX-6300 is still quite a decent of power.

[GhostWindGamer]

It'll be fine

[MasonIsPurple]

It's fine, but not ideal.

[Faceman]

So my friend want's me to build his PC and he ordered an AMD FX 6300 w/ a GTX 770, is this a bottleneck?

What kind of games does he play?

[IceTalian]

What kind of games does he play?

nothing major like bf4 i dont think, but if he were to play bf4 would it bottleneck? or dayz maybe?

[Ialyrn]

Dayz I am not sure about, but BF4 should run ok with the FX-6300.

In that video the i7-3770k is overclocked, the FX-6300 isnt. Well, according to the video description. It is digital foundry, so it should be somewhat legit.

I would suggest buying a good cooler and motherboard, and then overclocking the chip.

[Faceman]

nothing major like bf4 i dont think, but if he were to play bf4 would it bottleneck? or dayz maybe?

DayZ, you absolutely need to get an Intel processor if you want halfway decent performance.  Strong cores are what games rely on, and FX does not provide that.  Consider switching to an i5.

[Vrbas]

Yes/no. Every CPU "bottlenecks". All Depends on the game.

 

DayZ you want to go intel but you will never get constant 60fps in that game so don't expect that. Though I know people that have AMD play it just fine.

In bf4 it will most likely be GPU bound.

[capawesome9870]

http://www.ocaholic.ch/modules/smartsection/item.php?itemid=1185&page=9

in DX10 and DX 11 games your friend should be fine

in DX9 games, Skyrim or Borderlands 2/Pre-Sequal, the the frame rate will dip a little in intense areas. 

 

i'm currently playing Skyrim on the Ultra High Preset with a 75hz monitor, and i rarely go below the 75 of my monitor, when i do is in areas with about 30 or so NPCs and i am looking in their direction.  Most time i do not notice the dips, except that i have a FPS counter on my screen i look at every now and then. 

i did notice that in the times of lower FPS the CPU or GPU usage doesn't go up noticeably so i do not really know what is going on.