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Will my amd a10 6700 bottleneck my new gpu?

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So I have this old prebuilt system from lenovo and I want to upgrade from the integrated graphics to a 2gb r9 380.

My cpu is an amd a10 6700 quad core clocked st 3.7ghz, 8gbs ddr3 1600mhz, lenovo mobo (I checked it's a standard micro atx mobo), 550w psu from corsair and a standard case.

I just need to know if my cpu is a bottleneck for an r9 380 for games like bf4, war thunder, KSP etc.

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1 minute ago, kirby99_2016 said:

So I have this old prebuilt system from lenovo and I want to upgrade from the integrated graphics to a 2gb r9 380.

My cpu is an amd a10 6700 quad core clocked st 3.7ghz, 8gbs ddr3 1600mhz, lenovo mobo (I checked it's a standard micro atx mobo), 550w psu from corsair and a standard case.

I just need to know if my cpu is a bottleneck for an r9 380 for games like bf4, war thunder, KSP etc.

Maybe a tiny bit, but not terribly

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It's okay.

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On 4/5/2016 at 8:37 AM, kirby99_2016 said:

So I have this old prebuilt system from lenovo and I want to upgrade from the integrated graphics to a 2gb r9 380.

My cpu is an amd a10 6700 quad core clocked st 3.7ghz, 8gbs ddr3 1600mhz, lenovo mobo (I checked it's a standard micro atx mobo), 550w psu from corsair and a standard case.

I just need to know if my cpu is a bottleneck for an r9 380 for games like bf4, war thunder, KSP etc.

It will not bottleneck at all. My Pentium G3258 dosent even bottleneck my GTX970 xD

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2 minutes ago, FrozenSpark said:

It will not bottleneck at all. My Pentium G3258 dosent even bottleneck my GTX970 xD

yeah but i bet your CPU is OC'ed to the max

 

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20 minutes ago, FrozenSpark said:

It will not bottleneck at all. My Pentium G3258 dosent even bottleneck my GTX970 xD

It depends on the situation. I have a Core i3 4160 which rarely sees over 50% usage, but when I head into the center of Novigrad in The Witcher 3, it's as high as 90%

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28 minutes ago, kirby99_2016 said:

So I have this old prebuilt system from lenovo and I want to upgrade from the integrated graphics to a 2gb r9 380.

My cpu is an amd a10 6700 quad core clocked st 3.7ghz, 8gbs ddr3 1600mhz, lenovo mobo (I checked it's a standard micro atx mobo), 550w psu from corsair and a standard case.

I just need to know if my cpu is a bottleneck for an r9 380 for games like bf4, war thunder, KSP etc.

It'll probably be alright. Try and get the 4GB version, though. 2GB of VRAM will hold you back quite a bit in newer titles- Shadow of Mordor and Dying Light use 4GB even at 1080p.

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On 4/5/2016 at 8:46 AM, GreezyJeezy said:

yeah but i bet your CPU is OC'ed to the max

yeah 4.9Ghz at 1.34V lol

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Well when I said 3.7 ghz it has a 4.3 ghz boost clock but weirdly it just seems to stay a 4.3 ghz ALL THE TIME which I checked in CPU-Z

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