amd phenom II x4 will it bottleneck a gtx 660ti?

[Bowser]

so i bought a 660ti and it came here and i dident get eny preformence incease is it becouse my cpu is bottlenecking it or maby my ram?

not the best at this shizzel ;)

[tengarp]

umm, unless you have less than 8 gb of ram, I would say upgrade your cpu to at least an intel core i5 3570k, or an amd fx8350 if you have an am3+ motherboard and you do not want to upgrade it.

[Bowser]

well i got 8 gb of ram so thats ok, if i go with i5 3570k what will a good mobo be?

[Draex]

Short Answer: Yes, it will bottleneck the 660TI

Long Answer needs more information to determine to what amount you are bottlenecking the videocard , We need to know the exact model of the CPU, amount of ram, screen resolution, is the CPU Overclocked? SSD or Mechanical Hard Drive?

[Money]

You'll see a big performance increase, but your CPU will be holding it back.

[Bowser]

oki i got a nvidia gtx 660ti top edition 1137 boost clock 3,1 ghz amd phenom II B45 some pice of shit ram 1080p mechanical hard drive 1 tb

[Bowser]

You'll see a big performance increase' date=' but your CPU will be holding it back.[/quote']

ok so what mobo do you recommend for a i5 3570k?

[Draex]

oki i got a nvidia gtx 660ti top edition 1137 boost clock 3' date='1 ghz amd phenom II B45 some pice of shit ram 1080p mechanical hard drive 1 tb[/quote']

The link below is done with 7970 but should give you a rough idea as to the scaling with a similar CPU to yours, I would expect to see atleast 30% increase in framerate swaping your CPU in most recent titles with the 3570K

As far a decent board goes that depends on budget, for a cheaper board I swear by the MSI Z77A-G45 (http://www.ncix.com/products/?sku=69231&vpn=Z77A-G45&manufacture=MSI%2FMicroStar&promoid=1360) for a mid level board I recommend a ASUS P8Z77-V Pro(http://www.ncix.com/products/?sku=69883&vpn=P8Z77-V%20Pro&manufacture=ASUS&promoid=1366)

[Bowser]

Thank you will look into this :)

[Andriko]

Upgrading your cpu is not worth the minor performance increase you will get in games, you will see maybe 5 fps more when you upgrade to sandy/ivy bridge, or anything else better for that matter.

[Andriko]

Upgrading your cpu is not worth the minor performance increase you will get in games, you will see maybe 5 fps more when you upgrade to sandy/ivy bridge, or anything else better for that matter.

Plus the additional costs for the motherboard, will probably cost you around 280-500 dollars depending on what you buy

[cheti]

It will most probaly bottleneck in GPU-heavy places where you need the CPU power to support the GPU.

Id suggest upgrading to an IB solution (3570k) if youre into gaming.

Best wishes

- cheti

[191x7]

I't easy to check if your cpu bottlnecks your gpu at the settings you are using. Simply install PlayClaw and use the overlay to see how high your cpu and gpu usage goes while playing. or run MSI afterburner in the backgroud to see how high the % of gpu usage goes. A Phenom II x4 should not be a game-breaking bottleneck for a 7870/GTX660Ti range card, maybe a little.

[Cameron]

Ram won't make your fps lower unless you don't have enough of it, the type of hard drive you have has no effect on fps. Your cpu with no doubt is bottlenecking you, If your board is an AM3+ socket I recommend picking up a fx-8350 which would eliminate your bottleneck.

[Bowser]

ok on

Call of duty black ops 2 MP = maxed out i get 68% gpu usage

Battlefield 3= 83%gpu usage and i only dip 10 fps from low to ultra

Far cry 3= 93%gpu usage - when i played on low i only had 10 fps more then on ultra

[Bradley_Whelan]

for a 660 ti I would upgrade to like they are saying a newer AMD or an i3 3220 if you're on a budget, look at task manager CPU usage, I bet it's constantly on 100% during those gaming sessions

[Luke]

so i bought a 660ti and it came here and i dident get eny preformence incease is it becouse my cpu is bottlenecking it or maby my ram? not the best at this shizzel ;)

You didn't get a performance increase for what game And what video card did you have before?

[Reslivo]

Yes, you are slightly bottlenecked by the Phenom II x4. Slightly.

But saying that, the Phenom series have never been the best gaming CPUs, so the logical solution would be to switch to Sandy Bridge/Ivy Bridge/Piledriver as soon as you can.

@Previous answers:

- HDD/SSD makes no difference to FPS

- RAM speed and latency can affect minimum FPS

- Battlefield 3 has always had lower GPU usage than other games

[Bowser]

so i bought a 660ti and it came here and i dident get eny preformence incease is it becouse my cpu is bottlenecking it or maby my ram? not the best at this shizzel ;)

You didn't get a performance increase for what game And what video card did you have before?

i diident get realy eny performence increase in eny game, i had a gtx 560 se overclock to and unhealty speed at 850 when default was 736 mhz and it was a zotac card

[jmfg187]

I wouldn't think you would have a bottleneck with that cpu, my wifey's 6970 doesn't bottleneck on her 550 Black Edition unlocked to a 3 core and OCed to 3.65 Ghz.

[Bowser]

I wouldn't think you would have a bottleneck with that cpu' date=' my wifey's 6970 doesn't bottleneck on her 550 Black Edition unlocked to a 3 core and OCed to 3.65 Ghz.[/quote'] but why doesent i have eny preformens increase?

[Bagus]

I have a 955 @3.6 and an Asus 7870, I upgraded from a gts 250 and can now max out every game except GW2 on 1920x1080.

Maybe overclocking would be a good idea even slightly should help. If you are willing to buy a new CPU I would try and overclock your current CPU as high as you can, and see if you are happy.

[mvitkun]

theres a huge performance difference between the gtx 560 se and the 660 ti

http://community.futuremark.com/hardware/gpu/NVIDIA+GeForce+GTX+560+SE/review

http://community.futuremark.com/hardware/gpu/NVIDIA+GeForce+GTX+660+Ti/review

so if you don't see a performance difference it's most likely caused by a bottleneck in the system.

I would try to overclock the phenom x4 by 500mhz or more if possible and see if theres a significant performance increase,atleast 10fps,to do so just do a benchmark run with fraps and benchmark the fps,it'll export it into a excel file showing average fps,max fps,min fps.and just do this before and after the overclock.

if you see a significant increase in fps then you hit a bottleneck with the cpu and should upgrade.

if you do not see a significant increase then something else is holding it back.

It could be the power supply throttling the GTX 660 ti down due to it being unable to supply enough power to it.

it could be a ram bottleneck if you still use DDR2 ram,though I'm not sure that I would bottleneck it.

it could be that something is wrong with your system,virus or something.