How to try avoid a CPU bottleneck?

[fastfishy2]

So, my specs sheet used to be rather balanced. i3 4170, GTX 950, 8gb of ram. Then the 950 broke a fan *slow clap* and after going to the shop they offered a R9 380X for barely any more money which of course I could not bear to turn down. I'm aware I could run into some bottlenecks so I am thinking of upgrading to a higher resolution screen as I heard increasing the demand on the graphics card helps to reduce the extent of bottlenecking (something to do with number of draw calls the CPU can make vs. how many the GPU can actually make use of)

 

i'm currently on a 900p screen but I was thinking of upgrading to a larger 1080p screen or maybe a bit higher (but not 1440) and using the 900p one as an extra monitor for Facebook or emails etc.

 

and no, a CPU upgrade is not possible any time in the near future.

 

any recommendations would be appreciated, I'm not too familiar on how bottlenecking works other than a few scraps of info.

[FPS-Russia]

I think you will be ok? i3 is good with that card.

[PRTI]

i3's are still decent for budget rigs

[Xaring]

Last gen i3 with last gen GPU, its fine.

[JJVGaming]

You should be good for most games, but ones like gta v or cpu intensive games could be some bottleneck but so terrible.

[Yttrizy]

How to avoid it? Get better cpu than your Gpu lmao

[ForsakenLive]

On some games you are going to run into bottlenecks, but it's fine, most games you play are going to be taking advantage of the nice GPU, and the other minority are still going to be running better than what they did with the GTX 950 anyway.

 

[FPS-Russia]

19 minutes ago, Yttrizy said:

How to avoid it? Get better cpu than your Gpu lmao

Please take this serious and respect the person asking.

[DarkBlade2117]

1080p will alleviate it, plus, turning settings up will also help in some scenarios.

I've got a i3-6100 ( granite it's overclocked ) and an R9 290 stock, runs just fine, slight bottleneck in GTA V but I still get 50-70FPS. In games like Shadow of Mordor, my GPU is and CPU are fine. Anything like Rocket League, overwatch, CSGO, doesn't matter, you'll have 100-200FPS in those at all times anyways.

[fastfishy2]

Righto, thanks people for the help and suggestions. I'll definitely be looking at getting maybe a 1920x1200 screen or something along those lines.