GTX 970 Possible Bottleneck

[Rynell]

This is probably a myth but I'm here to ask to confirm if this is true. Before I get to the topic of the discussion, here is my current build.

Motherboard: MSI 970 GAMING 

CPU: AMD FX-8350 Black Edition 

GPU: EVGA GTX 750TI

RAM: DDR3 8GB(4GB x 2) 1866MHz  Kingston Hyper X Fury Black

PSU: Cooler Master GXII 650W 

HDD: Seagate Barracuda 500GB 7200RPM(Will get an SSD later when I have the budget)

Chassis: NZXT Phantom 410(Might get an InWin chassis later)

 

I heard that the AMD FX-8350 gets bottlenecked by by the GTX 970, this is probably a myth but I can see it being very possible. I would like to know from you guys before I invest in this bad boy. 

 

[froot]

I think thats a myth that cpu should be fine.

[Godlygamer23]

It's actually the other way around, and it depends on the games being played.

[Rynell]

1 minute ago, Godlygamer23 said:

It's actually the other way around, and it depends on the games being played.

I don't play too demanding triple A games. It's most centered around League of Raging and MMOs, sometimes Battlefield 4 and of the like. 

[Godlygamer23]

Just now, Rynell said:

I don't play too demanding triple A games. It's most centered around League of Raging and MMOs, sometimes Battlefield 4 and of the like. 

I mean, you might get a bottleneck, but at the same time, it's probably not worth spending money on a new CPU and motherboard.

[ybriK]

OC the 8350 to 4.5-5 GHz and you're good to go, no point spending money on an intel build just to gain FPS for now...

 

http://www.techspot.com/review/1006-the-witcher-3-benchmarks/page5.html

http://www.techspot.com/review/991-gta-5-pc-benchmarks/page6.html

If you truly believe your 970 is being bottlenecked, use a hardware monitoring tool like MSI Afterburner and see on demanding titles at demanding scenarios if your 970 can keep a consistent 90-100% GPU Usage (this is without any form of FPS syncing).

 

[Rynell]

1 minute ago, ybriK said:

OC the 8350 to 4.5-5 GHz and you're good to go, no point spending money on an intel build just to gain FPS for now...

 

http://www.techspot.com/review/1006-the-witcher-3-benchmarks/page5.html

http://www.techspot.com/review/991-gta-5-pc-benchmarks/page6.html

is OCing it to 4.5GHz-5.0GHz okay with my Cooler Master Hyper TX3 Cooler?

 

 

[ybriK]

1 minute ago, Rynell said:

 

I have no idea how well that cooler performs, but I assume it performs significantly better than the stock cooler. Try OC'ing to 4.0GHz, play BF4 and monitor temperatures. Also from doing a quick research 4.0GHz with a voltage of 1.2-1.3 seems to be the norm.

[Rynell]

3 minutes ago, ybriK said:

I have no idea how well that cooler performs, but I assume it performs significantly better than the stock cooler. Try OC'ing to 4.0GHz, play BF4 and monitor temperatures. Also from doing a quick research 4.0GHz with a voltage of 1.2-1.3 seems to be the norm.

It runs 4.0GHz at stock. If I increase the clock how much do I crank the voltage?

[ybriK]

3 minutes ago, Rynell said:

It runs 4.0GHz at stock. 

Oh I didn't know, try 4.5GHz? @ 1.3-1.4volts?

[Rynell]

Just now, ybriK said:

Oh I didn't know, try 4.5GHz? @ 1.3volts?

Allright! I just hope to not kill my machine haha. 

[Godlygamer23]

1 minute ago, Rynell said:

Allright! I just hope to not kill my machine haha. 

Just overclock it by 100MHz at a time, and stress test using AIDA64 or P95. Monitor temperatures using HWMonitor, CoreTemp, or RealTemp. If you start getting crashes, increase voltage by a little bit. Not sure what the stock voltage is.

[ybriK]

Just now, Rynell said:

Allright! I just hope to not kill my machine haha. 

Well if you really want to be safe you should just raise the frequency only without applying any voltage to see if you won the silicon lottery.

[Rynell]

6 minutes ago, ybriK said:

Well if you really want to be safe you should just raise the frequency only without applying any voltage to see if you won the silicon lottery.

LOL.