Upgrading my current rig! :)

[Machpunch]

Hello everyone!

 

I'm a new user here on linustechtips, so please bare with my newbieness lol. Anyway, I'm currently upgrading my computer's hardware, and I was concerned about something that I've heard and researched tons of forums and YouTube videos about... and that's the saying "bottlenecking". This is my current build:

 

Motherboard: ASRock 970DE3/U3S3 AM3+ AMD 770 + SB710 w/ 2600MHz FSB, USB 3.0

CPU: AMD FX-8150 Zambezi 8-Core @3.6GHz 125W w/ 8MB L2 & L3 cache

CPU Cooler: ZALMAN 92mm 2 Ball CPU Cooler

RAM: 16GB 1333 MHz Patriot Sector 5 Gaming Series

GPU: SAPPHIRE Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition 2GB 256-bit GDDR5

PSU: RAIDMAX RX 735W ATX Semi-Modular Power Supply

Case: Azza Solano 1000R Black/Blue Japanese SECC Steel/Mesh Full ATX Case

HD: 7200rpm Seagate 1TB Drive

OS: Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit

 

And I recently bought a few upgrades, including the nVidia GTX Titan X, 16GB Ripjaws X series 1866MHz, and ASUS M5A99FX PRO R2.0 that are on there way.

 

So, what I'm getting at is, with the hardware I'm planning to replace(GPU, RAM, MOBO), will the 8150 bottleneck my Titan X, or vice versa? I plan to buy a 8370, a 1TB SSD, and a 1ms 144MHz refresh rate monitor here shortly, but in the mean time, the only CPU I have is the 8150.....

 

Any help/suggestions will be greatly appreciated!

 

 

[cheeze_tartz]

8150 + Titan X?? NOoooOOOOOOOOOoOoOOOoO

[WereCat]

Yes the FX8150 will cause some bottlenecks in most games for Titan X and no it wont help you at all upgrading it to FX 8370. You either go for i5 or Xeon or dont upgrade at all untill you save money for i5 or Xeon.

[deVIZtation]

Ummmm, so you want to destroy your 1000 dollar gpu with a cheap raidmax psu..... nice.

[techguru]

whats the budget for his upgrade

[Guest]

Get an i5 4690k and a GTX 980 Ti (980 Ti has same performance as the Titan X for $350 less and the i5 is much better than any AMD CPU).

[Exceptional OCD]

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A thumb rule to prevent bottlenecking is that your GPU and CPU should roughly cost the same.

When it comes to a Titan X this rule isn't so true and you need to do some more research which is honestly not hard at all.

[Exceptional OCD]

Get an i5 4690k and a GTX 980 Ti (980 Ti has same performance as the Titan X for $350 less and the i5 is much better than any AMD CPU).

 

The 980Ti actually out performs the Titan X when overclocked.

I think this was NVIDA's sorry for the 3.5GB of VRAM on the GTX 970.

[i_build_nanosuits]

So, what I'm getting at is, with the hardware I'm planning to replace(GPU, RAM, MOBO), will the 8150 bottleneck my Titan X, or vice versa? I plan to buy a 8370, a 1TB SSD, and a 1ms 144MHz refresh rate monitor here shortly, but in the mean time, the only CPU I have is the 8150.....

the AMD FX line of CPU's are over 3 years old now and have never been good CPU's for gaming...i had an FX-8350 running at 4.6ghz and it was not up to the task of feeding even my GTX780...now a titan X? aiming for 144FPS? no way in hell...those cpu's struggle to even reach 60FPS in many if not most games...return that board as soon as it arrives and get an i5-4690K and a Z97 motherboard instead...that's the only way to not limit the performance of your titan X...and even if you could afford an i7-4790K it would be even better for 144hz gaming.

 

Also, get a 980ti...not a Titan X.

[CPAX11]

Your cpu: Run Intel all the way. I would wait for skylake, though.

Motherboard: Go Gigabyte, the have the least number of rma returns. 

Ram: I dont even know the company Patriot. Go with Crucial.

Hdd: Go with Toshiba.  Seagate is a literal pile of dog crap. 

Case: Go with fractal design. They have thicker case and they aint some thin tin company.

Psu: Go with Seasonic. I hear there is a bad batch of Corsair psus.

[i_build_nanosuits]

Alright, I agree with everything you said about going with Seasonic over Corsair - what? Seasonic is actually not that good of a company - they've had many many recalls, and thousands of PSU burnouts and fails. Corsair however, is #2 behind Cooler Master in efficiency, and #1 in safeness. Corsair is definitely the way to go over Seasonic.

[techguru]

Alright, I agree with everything you said about going with Seasonic over Corsair - what? Seasonic is actually not that good of a company - they've had many many recalls, and thousands of PSU burnouts and fails. Corsair however, is #2 behind Cooler Master in efficiency, and #1 in safeness. Corsair is definitely the way to go over Seasonic.

LMFAO

seasonic is basically the best psu maker

I think you are confused on brand names