6970 bottleneck?

[Pip_Buoy]

Hey, I am planning a new gaming build based around a 3570k. I was wondering if an HD 6970 would be a bottleneck, or if performance would be good enough regardless of a bottleneck.

I will be running this system on a 1080p monitor.

[LimeDk]

no you would not have any problems with bottleneck in your system

[s0nrise]

a 6970 is still a decent card.

What do you mean by bottleneck? You obviously could get more gaming performance by getting a 680, 690.

And yes, performance should be enough for that card @ 1080p

[Pip_Buoy]

Thanks for the quick response, I really needed a second (and third) opinion on this as I will hopefully run this for the next 3 years, I wanted to be sure I wasn't losing performance from day 1.

[Pip_Buoy]

By bottleneck I meant a large loss in performance from my CPU as my GPU can't run fast enough.

And I know that your CPU is almost always more powerful than your GPU.

[the_devil52]

The 6970 is still a fast card but you'd probably be better off with a 7000 series card (unless you've already bought the 6970). The 7870 is slightly better than the 6970. http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/509?vs=548

[AMD_Nemesis]

theres no such thing as bottleneck with that cpu.

[Helltech]

Bottleneck is such a nasty word, there is always a bottleneck somewhere.

Regardless of that, that will be a well rounded setup, you shouldn't worry.

[Pip_Buoy]

Thanks again everyone.

That's a much better way of describing it, I wanted if it was a well rounded configuration.