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Will GTX 960 be bottlenecked?

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I'm broke and want better gaming performance. If i get the GPU now, i'll see better performance and can upgrade the rest later. The alternative being upgrade the rest of the system and be held back by a weak GPU and 1 GB of VRAM. Will my CPU and RAM bottleneck the GTX 960? Specs are in the signature and on my profile page

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It will be bottlenecked , however I would still get it and upgrade the rest of the system in the future.

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I'm broke and want better gaming performance. If i get the GPU now, i'll see better performance and can upgrade the rest later. The alternative being upgrade the rest of the system and be held back by a weak GPU and 1 GB of VRAM. Will my CPU and RAM bottleneck the GTX 960? Specs are in the signature and on my profile page

 

BOO! 960 sucks! Seriously, though, go for a 970 or Radeon 290X or 295X.

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BOO! 960 sucks! Seriously, though, go for a 970 or Radeon 290X or 295X.

If i had the money, had a decent PSU, and AMD didn't fuck my brother and my friend at a driver level, i'd get one of those cards

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BOO! 960 sucks! Seriously, though, go for a 970 or Radeon 290X or 295X.

For the price its pretty good in my opinion. It has really low power consumption and does not give off a lot of heat which for some people that might be what they want. 

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BOO! 960 sucks! Seriously, though, go for a 970 or Radeon 290X or 295X.

"Yeah, this 220 dollar videocard sucks, you should go for something that is 350, 300 or 450 dollars at least! And it will be bottlenecked even worse!"

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"Yeah, this 220 dollar videocard sucks, you should go for something that is 350, 300 or 450 dollars at least! And it will be bottlenecked even worse!"

 

 

For the price its pretty good in my opinion. It has really low power consumption and does not give off a lot of heat which for some people that might be what they want. 

 

 

If i had the money, had a decent PSU, and AMD didn't fuck my brother and my friend at a driver level, i'd get one of those cards

 

*hidden sarcasm*

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I think it will be fineish, maybe a little bottleneck, but not too huge.

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I'm broke and want better gaming performance. If i get the GPU now, i'll see better performance and can upgrade the rest later. The alternative being upgrade the rest of the system and be held back by a weak GPU and 1 GB of VRAM. Will my CPU and RAM bottleneck the GTX 960? Specs are in the signature and on my profile page

To answer your question: your CPU will bottleneck it a bit.

But I would still go for it.

 

*hidden sarcasm*

*clearly visible shitpost*?

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*hidden sarcasm*

Sarcasm isn't helpful, mate.

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