Rig Upgrade

[qqzzy]

So it has come to be time to upgrade my graphics card and I am stuck in a dialemma with what to go for.

 

My current rig is as follows:

Asus m5A99x evo motherboard

AMD FX 8350

Corsair H60i

16GB 1600mhz ram

120gb SanDisk SSD

Multiple hard drives

Nvidia GTX 770

 

I now run windows 10 and I really don't know whether to first go with team red or team green and even less what card to pick. On the green side I think I would most likely go for a gtx 970? Although I'm not really sure.

 

Any advice would be appreciated

[Mao_Zedong]

What games you do play? What resolution do you want to play at? What's your power supply? What's your exact budget or budget range? Also, that CPU will severely hold back a 970 or 390.

[Jintek]

Bottleneck incoming

[jimakos234]

As said before, both 970 and 390 will be bottlenecked by a fx

[qqzzy]

I am looking to be able to play upcoming titles at high and the power supply isn't a problem because I will upgrade to fit the card if I need to. At the moment I use a 600w EVGA psu though. Also, if it helps I have overclocked my cpu to 4.7 ghz. I am not entirely sure how the bottlenecking works exactly but I though my cpu was fairly high end... My budget for the gpu is about £250 or around that.

 

If I was to upgrade my cpu, what would I need (without worrying about the motherboard) to minimize the bottleneck?

 

Oh, and my resolution in 1080p.

[jimakos234]

I am looking to be able to play upcoming titles at high and the power supply isn't a problem because I will upgrade to fit the card if I need to. At the moment I use a 600w EVGA psu though. Also, if it helps I have overclocked my cpu to 4.7 ghz. I am not entirely sure how the bottlenecking works exactly but I though my cpu was fairly high end... My budget for the gpu is about £250 or around that.

 

If I was to upgrade my cpu, what would I need (without worrying about the motherboard) to minimize the bottleneck?

 

Oh, and my resolution in 1080p.

I am going to put it simply. Your gpu is going to be bottlenecked by the fx, meaning that cpu while working

at near 100% load wont be able to "feed" with data  the gpu quick enough to keep the gpu at an 90-100% load,

because the gpu will handle the data way faster than the cpu does, resulting the gpu to stay idle for some milliseconds

and further more, the seconds that the gpu will be "idling", you will experienced significantly huge fps drops, freezing and stuttering.

 i tried my best to keep it simple, i hope u will understand what i am trying to say.

 

Edited.

Some i3 variants can compete with 8350 quite well. I would recommend an i5 4430/4460 and an h97  motherboard as the cheapest and best solution.

If you want to overclock tho, the 4690k and z97 mobo is the only way

[Nena Trinity]

390 or 970 that is highest your rig should be able to take!!!

 

That will be the last GPUs you can use for that rig unless DX12 makes wonders!

[qqzzy]

Thanks everyone! I had no idea about the cpu bottlenecking really, but I will take a look into upgrading my cpu platform before any kind of GPU upgrade.

[Nena Trinity]

Thanks everyone! I had no idea about the cpu bottlenecking really, but I will take a look into upgrading my cpu platform before any kind of GPU upgrade.

Zen will be out late 2016! Unless you wanna go Intel.