Upgrading to R9 280x

[C#Wizard]

Hi,

 

I might buy a MSI R9 280x, however I'm not sure if my CPU will be a problem. (Bottleneck?) Unfortunately my budget isn't big enough to go for a R9 290 or a GTX 970. What do you guys think, would the CPU limit the performance of the R9 280x? I've read several posts and they say the CPU will probably bottleneck the card, however I personally doubt it because I'm using a single 1080p monitor and that's it.

 

Specs:

MSI GTX 660 2 GB OC

AMD FX-6300 Six core @ 3,5ghz

 

Card:

MSI R9 280X 3 GB (http://www.msi.com/product/vga/R9-280X-GAMING-3G.html#hero-specification)

[Aytex]

not alot

[grayblizzard]

i run a r9 280 just fine but you might have issues i dont know

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No, not at all. Only in some poorly optimized games.

[Samsterstorm]

Should be fine, maybe a very very small bottleneck is some badly optimized games! But as soon as you can I would switch it for a nice quad core i5 as they are the best price wise! 

[thatguyyouknow75]

youll be fine

[The Toaster]

Eh, it shouldn't be a huge problem. In some poorly optimized games it might be kinda bottlenecky.

Dx12 may help it though.

After you purchase your 280x, I would buy a used Zeon E3 off of Ebay, of you are comfortable with that. They offer really good Price per performance.