CPU Bottleneck

[DoubleNegativeInfinity]

I know that my FX 4100 will bottleneck a Tahiti 7870. My question is, how much will it bottleneck the GPU?

[Profquast]

not that much.

[Kruziik_Kel]

it wont. a core 2 quad is still yet to bottleneck any modern GPU

[tp95112]

Not alot but overclock a little bit. Even with the stock cooler a 3.8 wont be too hard.

[Nertballs]

that system has a pretty decent balance actually

[Chevaishr]

.depends on the game , the resolution you are gaming at and the level of detail you turn up. If you turn up the details,resolution on most games there will be little to no cpu bottleneck as the gpu would be loaded up heavily and will be the limiting factor.

[Jmjam]

I don't think it would bottleneck the gpu that much or not at all. An overclock would give you a little more fps but in this case it's a pretty well balanced system.

[Helltech]

There is no noticeable bottleneck here, people who say there is are the same people who turned bottleneck into the ugly overused word it is today.

[DoubleNegativeInfinity]

Not alot but overclock a little bit. Even with the stock cooler a 3.8 wont be too hard.

I have it overclocked to 4.3 already.

[TechFan@ic]

I don't see any bottleneck here, you should be able to play the majority of games with excellent frames rates .

[TheRealSlimShady]

Overclock your FX!

[BCMods]

Overclock your FX!

He already mentioned that he has...

[Wats]

4-core, you won't be holding back that video card in games, or benches. You will be able to play every game. Besides AC3 and GTA4 :P

[Jmjam]

4-core, you won't be holding back that video card in games, or benches. You will be able to play every game. Besides AC3 and GTA4 :P

AC3 is terrible with GPU optimization lol. (at least in the town of boston)

[Opsilon]

it wont. a core 2 quad is still yet to bottleneck any modern GPU

That is only true if you overclock it very high, but a stock c2q is going to be a bottleneck for any modern card that is over 200$ i saw a nice newegg video when the 660 was launched and they used an x79 setup for borderlands 2 with an 8800 gt card, and if you turn off physx the card has decent framerate, if you had used a c2q it would not be even close.

Not to mention Linus made a video with crysis 2 an took a 670 with an older core 2 extreme system, it was choppy

[Opsilon]

You will be held back a bit because it's an AMD 4 core, and it's a buldozer architecture, it will not bi visible much with games that can use all 4 cores, but if your game/application is not multi-core optimized you will see it, but don't worry, we are talking about 5% on that card since the card and the cpu are in the more or less same generation, so OC it a bit and you will be just fine...