Bottleneck Help.

[Lewin Reid]

I am putting a list of components together for my first pc build and wanted  to get the EVGA GeForce GTX 960 and my cpu is the AMD Athlon x4 860k 3.7GHZ and I was just wondering about bottlenecking, I know it will bottleneck a little but will it be bad? Thanks

[Speed bump]

only way to know is to find out using a graphical stress test and monitoring software.

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doesn't have to be stress test could also be the GTA5 benchmark for a real world scenario 

[TheRandomness]

What's the total budget, where are you located and do you need the OS, peripherals and a monitor?

[Lewin Reid]

1 minute ago, Speed bump said:

only way to know is to find out using a graphical stress test and monitoring software.

I don't have it yet tho... so how will I know? any tips?

[MagnusGrønstad]

4 minutes ago, Lewin Reid said:

I am putting a list of components together for my first pc build and wanted  to get the EVGA GeForce GTX 960 and my cpu is the AMD Athlon x4 860k 3.7GHZ and I was just wondering about bottlenecking, I know it will bottleneck a little but will it be bad? Thanks

It won't be too bad. I have the same chip and it only slightly bottlenecks my 950. spring for that and upgrade cpu and mobo later when you have the cash

[l_zheng101]

I don't think the GTX 960 and the X4 860k will bottleneck at all. For Linus's 2015 PC buyer's guide, he put a 960 and 860k together for the 500 dollar build. You will be fine. If it does bottleneck, you could switch to a Pentium G3258 and oc the hell out of it. 

 

[l_zheng101]

Forget what I said, many games won't run well on dual cores any more. Stick with the 860K.

[sapphirethunder]

Whether it bottlenecks or not, depends of application.

 

GTA V? Athlon will bottleneck the heck out of GTX960.

Tomb Raider and similar games? Probably no bottleneck at all.

 

 

The more cpu-heavy the game is, the more it bottlenecks.

[jc980]

 

I find this as an interesting topic on dual cores.

 

This might help you.