bottle-necking

[joshua chiquot]

i have an a10-7850k and i am planning on upgrading my 750ti. is a gtx 970 a good choice or will it be held back by my cpu

[FloRolf]

Yeah it'll probably be held back a little. But just get the GPU first and later update your CPU.

[thatguyyouknow75]

That shouldn't stop you from upgrading. You'll still see massive improvements and the cpu won't be holding it back by any noticeable amount 

[Unhelpful]

7 minutes ago, joshua chiquot said:

i have an a10-7850k and i am planning on upgrading my 750ti. is a gtx 970 a good choice or will it be held back by my cpu

The 7850k is a bottleneck, but I'd still recommend upgrading, you'll still see an improvement. The 390 is better than the 970, almost across the board. I'd grab it, or wait for the RX 480 and the 1060 (whichever wins).

[Zyndo]

I'm not familiar with the exact specs of the A10-7580k, but the concept bottlenecking is largely irrelevant. I have a 980ti Xtreme Gaming (@1455MHz) in my system, and in order to bottleneck that I needed to turn my CPU down to the equivalent of a Pentium G4400 (and even then my 980ti was running at 80-100% utilization depending on the game). Mind you this was in games that weren't all that CPU intensive, so that could make it suffer a bit more.

Your CPU seems to be roughly equivalent to an I3-6100... with that in mind you would likely experience absolutely no bottleneck unless you're in the most ridiculously CPU intensive games on the market today, and even then it would only be a marginal one.

[Thony]

There will be slight bottleneck. 

 

I can't recommend u to upgrade now. This is terrible time for 2 reasons:

 

1. AMD (RX 480 $200, better than 970) and Nvidia are releasing new GPUs

 

2. Prices will drop, stock will have to be cleared so sales will happen

 

970 is a great card, but ATM it isn't the golden choice like it was since release up until end of spring.

 

Your 750ti is doing perfectly fine, so just watch the scene and see what happens. U are not in a hurry, there is potential to spend your money better

 

 

[joshua chiquot]

22 minutes ago, Thony said:

There will be slight bottleneck. 

 

I can't recommend u to upgrade now. This is terrible time for 2 reasons:

 

1. AMD (RX 480 $200, better than 970) and Nvidia are releasing new GPUs

 

2. Prices will drop, stock will have to be cleared so sales will happen

 

970 is a great card, but ATM it isn't the golden choice like it was since release up until end of spring.

 

Your 750ti is doing perfectly fine, so just watch the scene and see what happens. U are not in a hurry, there is potential to spend your money better

 

 

do u really believe the rx 480 will be that good. i wonder how good it will be. do u think it will destroy the gtx 980 ti ?

 

[TheHappyJarhead]

1 hour ago, joshua chiquot said:

do u really believe the rx 480 will be that good. i wonder how good it will be. do u think it will destroy the gtx 980 ti ?

 

it will nowhere near beat a 980ti, 2 or 3 yes but not 1

[Thony]

4 hours ago, joshua chiquot said:

do u really believe the rx 480 will be that good. i wonder how good it will be. do u think it will destroy the gtx 980 ti ?

 

It doesnt destroy 980ti, neither comes even close to the performance. 2 of them in crossfire perform same as GTX 1080.  I can guarantee u 2x 970 doesnt perform as well. That makes it a better card than 970. 

Its $200, even 970 costs lot more not to mention 1070...

Your CPU would probably kill itself if u put 980ti in it so dont even think about that until u upgrade your CPU.

[joshua chiquot]

22 hours ago, Thony said:

It doesnt destroy 980ti, neither comes even close to the performance. 2 of them in crossfire perform same as GTX 1080.  I can guarantee u 2x 970 doesnt perform as well. That makes it a better card than 970. 

Its $200, even 970 costs lot more not to mention 1070...

Your CPU would probably kill itself if u put 980ti in it so dont even think about that until u upgrade your CPU.

thanks for the responce. lol im planning on upgrading my cpu to something like an fx 8320, do u think that will be good enough

[Thony]

2 minutes ago, joshua chiquot said:

thanks for the responce. lol im planning on upgrading my cpu to something like an fx 8320, do u think that will be good enough

For 970 it will be okay. For any upgrades after that it wont keep up. It is very old architecture at this point.

[joshua chiquot]

1 minute ago, Thony said:

For 970 it will be okay. For any upgrades after that it wont keep up. It is very old architecture at this point.

oh ok what cpu do u recommend since i want one that i will not have to change for some time.