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I currently have a r9270x 2gb graphics card I want to upgrade to a gtx970 4gb will it bottleneck with my current cpu its a amd fx6300 and how much better performance will I get with the new graphics card?

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There will be an increase in performance however there will also be a fairly large bottleneck.

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What cpu do you reccomend I get to not have a bottleneck?

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I currently have a r9270x 2gb graphics card I want to upgrade to a gtx970 4gb will it bottleneck with my current cpu its a amd fx6300 and how much better performance will I get with the new graphics card?

 

If you're upgrading GPU, frames will never go down in games, they'll either stay the same or increase. For the upgrade. I suspect you will see some bottlenecks in places, but it wont be too bad - it will depend on game and scene.

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If you're upgrading GPU, frames will never go down in games, they'll either stay the same or increase. For the upgrade. I suspect you will see some bottlenecks in places, but it wont be too bad - it will depend on game and scene.

i want to have the gtx 970 being used to its full extent I don't want bottlenecks and games I want to be playing is gta5 on high settings
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i want to have the gtx 970 being used to its full extent I don't want bottlenecks and games I want to be playing is gta5 on high settings

If you have a low budget go for the Intel Core i5 4460. If you want to spend around $230 go for the Intel Core i5 4690K. Keep in mind you also need to get another motherboard for those two cpu's.

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low budget - 4460

otherwise 4690k, 6600k

 

and get R9 390, same price, faster, double VRAM

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I have an i5 4590 myself (and a GTX970) and I can play at almost ultra settings at 60fps :D

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Gaming laptop: ASUS GL552VW: i7 6700HQ - GTX960M 2GB - 8GB DDR4 2166Mhz RAM - 1TB 7200RPM HDD

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