bottle neck ?

[Diesay]

How much will a latest gen amd gpu be bottlenecked on a Asus M4A88TD-V evo

 

(i had made a topic earlier but only got a few responses but no real answers)

 

right now i am running a xfx 6870

[Excon]

A motherboard cant/wont bottleneck a graphics card, it depends on your CPU

[Diesay]

4 core 3ghz

[Fate]

AM3 mobo so I'm assuming a Phenom II cpu which will be a huge bottleneck with current-gen GPUs in games.

[Diesay]

are the latest gpus not all pcie 3 

[Diesay]

^atholon

[Diesay]

will you not limit a gpus potential by putting a pcie3 in a pcie2 less lanes of comunication correct

[Tagiau]

will you not limit a gpus potential by putting a pcie3 in a pcie2 less lanes of comunication correct

No

[Diesay]

No

do you think you could expand on that just a bit

[Tagiau]

do you think you could expand on that just a bit

modern graphics cards can't even saturate pcie 2.0. As stated above, a motherboard can't bottleneck a cpu. 

 

For an example; lets say you can magically get a 5820k to work in this motherboard http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128423 and still have it run in pcie 2.0, you will notice no change than you would with something like an msi x99s sli. 

But say you try to use a r9 290x with a pentium e5200 that would bottleneck it, and a lot. 

[Diesay]

do you  think my current gpu is bottlenecked right now by my cpu?

 

what would you recomend

[iain]

do you  think my current gpu is bottlenecked right now by my cpu?

 

what would you recomend

I would say yes. I would see if you can get a FM2+ motherboard. and then pick-up a 760k or 860k with a nice cooler. That wont bottle neck anything and will allow you to overclock. You should also see performance boosts in other things.

Motherboard: MSI A78M-E35

CPU: AMD Athlon X4 760k

Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper TX3 Evo

cost: £111.27 From Amazon

 

[Diesay]

what would be the best cpu for am3 socket be and am i going to get any "worth it " gains by adding a good cooler and over clocking

[harrynowl]

what would be the best cpu for am3 socket be and am i going to get any "worth it " gains by adding a good cooler and over clocking

Phenom II X6 1100t overclocked to 4GHz.

[Diesay]

thanks for all your info and advise everyone

[Diesay]

so after some more reading and some testing my lowly athlon II 640 four core is running at 100% while gaming and my gpu is at about 70% (xfx 6870)  nothing overclocked

 

i am trying to find either the phenom II 1100t BE,1090T BE, 980BE, 975 and cooler to do my first over clock

 

but what about gpu. will i now have head room on cpu side for more gpu power,  should i run another 6870 (even tho the second slot is x8) or is there a diffent gpu songle or crossfire/sli that would be a good choice to match