Is my CPU a bottleneck?

[Chadders]

Hello, my friends have recently told me that my CPU is most likely heavily bottle necking my computer.

 

Specs:

Gigabyte 78LMT-USB3 Motherboard

16GB DDR3 RAM

GTX 1060

AMD FX-6350 Six Core Processor 3.90 GHz

 

So, is my CPU likely to be bottlenecking my computer, and if so, can I have recommendations for upgrades?

 

Thanks.

[Marc Degasperi]

Its not that bad ive seen worse but defenetly something to keep high on the upgrade list.

[PenPoint]

AMD platform is hard to upgrade.

You can either downgrade to Thuban such as X6-1055T or upgrade to FX-8300 and overclock it, but both suggestions have limits.

Best solution is... change to Intel platform.

[DarkBlade2117]

Let me give you some examples of where it will, GTA V, Overwatch, Far Cry 4, yes that CPU is a bottleneck. In games like Tomb Raider 2013, Witcher 3 kind of ect it isn't as bad.

I would just start saving up a bit, maybe wait out until Kaby Lake and try and pick up a LGA1151 board and a skylake CPU, like an i5-6500 or 6600k if you want on the cheaper side.

[Chadders]

1 minute ago, DarkBlade2117 said:

Let me give you some examples of where it will, GTA V, Overwatch, Far Cry 4, yes that CPU is a bottleneck. In games like Tomb Raider 2013, Witcher 3 kind of ect it isn't as bad.

I would just start saving up a bit, maybe wait out until Kaby Lake and try and pick up a LGA1151 board and a skylake CPU, like an i5-6500 or 6600k if you want on the cheaper side.

I can actually run GTA V at 60fps minimum with everything maxed, and Overwatch I can run everything on Epic at 144fps,

 

I haven't actually overclocked my CPu as I am not too confident in doing it, but will that help?

[Matias_Chambers]

Yes that CPU will bottleneck in most games. Upgrade to an i5 6500 with an H170 mobo and DDR4 RAM: 

[DocSwag]

4 minutes ago, Chadders said:

I can actually run GTA V at 60fps minimum with everything maxed, and Overwatch I can run everything on Epic at 144fps,

 

I haven't actually overclocked my CPu as I am not too confident in doing it, but will that help?

Your CPU could be bottlenecking but still be capable of pushing those framerates.

 

Also yes, overclocking will definitely help. If you want to play it safe you don't even have to raise voltages much at all-just bump up the frequency a tiny bit in your bios and run some stress tests to make sure it's stable.

[Chadders]

1 minute ago, DocSwag said:

Your CPU could be bottlenecking but still be capable of pushing those framerates.

 

Also yes, overclocking will definitely help. If you want to play it safe you don't even have to raise voltages much at all-just bump up the frequency a tiny bit in your bios and run some stress tests to make sure it's stable.

So really, is it worth upgrading my CPU at all at the moment? 

[Cryptonite]

8 minutes ago, Chadders said:

So really, is it worth upgrading my CPU at all at the moment? 

no. you can overclock it, but do not ask if it's necessary to upgrade on these forums if you are not experiencing problems because these rich kids will try to prove to you that you need the upgrade. whilst in fact your pc runs buttery smooth. if you reach 60 FPS and you desire 60 FPS do not upgrade. if you reach 50 fps and desire 50 fps do not upgrade. Personally I am fine with anything casual (single player games) over 40 fps and MMO games over 60 fps.

 

also if your OS is slow get an SSD not a CPU. I get lots of people ordering CPUs from me and then wanting their money back because their harddrives are crap.

[Imakuni]

28 minutes ago, Cryptonite said:

I get lots of people ordering CPUs from me and then wanting their money back because their harddrives are crap.

What is the problem of 2min boot time with 1min post boot of full lagginess?

 

#IDE HD converted to Sata. F my life.

[Cryptonite]

18 minutes ago, Imakuni said:

What is the problem of 2min boot time with 1min post boot of full lagginess?

 

#IDE HD converted to Sata. F my life.

it's not just that, some harddrives are just so bad that they take forever to load the application you're trying to launch, replace the HDD and then everything loads up

[mlalcevski]

Your specs are fine. Your cpu may only be a bottleneck for cpu intensive things like City Skylines, however you will not get much more performance if you upgrade the cpu on the same platform (AM3+) unless you sell it and get something like an FX-9590 it's simply not worth throwing extra money. You could get a good water cooler for the cpu and overclock it, bare in mind it is a 125W cpu

[DarkBlade2117]

2 hours ago, Chadders said:

I can actually run GTA V at 60fps minimum with everything maxed, and Overwatch I can run everything on Epic at 144fps,

 

I haven't actually overclocked my CPu as I am not too confident in doing it, but will that help?

60 minimum? No, maybe at medium settings but even my PC gets drops into the 40s at high-max settings 1080p

[DocSwag]

2 hours ago, Chadders said:

So really, is it worth upgrading my CPU at all at the moment? 

Personally I don't think it really is worth it. You aren't gonna get enough of a performance increase for the cost to be worth it. Just wondering, what monitor do you have? If you're getting higher frame rates than your monitor's refresh rate and aren't seeing any stuttering there's no point in upgrading.

[NumLock21]

Tell those who say your PC is a bottleneck, to buy the parts for you, cause upgrading parts here to get rid of bottleneck is really expensive. Can't donate for your upgrade parts, then they can just STFU about bottlenecking.

[Chadders]

2 hours ago, DarkBlade2117 said:

60 minimum? No, maybe at medium settings but even my PC gets drops into the 40s at high-max settings 1080p

Well, 99% of the time my PC doesn't.

 

1 hour ago, DocSwag said:

Personally I don't think it really is worth it. You aren't gonna get enough of a performance increase for the cost to be worth it. Just wondering, what monitor do you have? If you're getting higher frame rates than your monitor's refresh rate and aren't seeing any stuttering there's no point in upgrading.

I can't remember the exact model but it is 144hz.

[SteveGrabowski0]

If you would have said you're running an FX 6350 a year ago with a GTX 980 everyone would have said it was a massive bottleneck. Now running it with a similarly powerful gpu people say it isn't that big of one?

[DarkBlade2117]

3 hours ago, Chadders said:

Well, 99% of the time my PC doesn't.

 

I can't remember the exact model but it is 144hz.

No, it does, it will, and it has many times. Your CPU may b the slightest bit better than another FX-6350, but even people with FX 8350's have had massive stuttering, watch your frames, you may look and see "Oh at 60FPS" but if you actually use something to record the FPS, you'll notice the drops.

[Chadders]

5 hours ago, DarkBlade2117 said:

No, it does, it will, and it has many times. Your CPU may b the slightest bit better than another FX-6350, but even people with FX 8350's have had massive stuttering, watch your frames, you may look and see "Oh at 60FPS" but if you actually use something to record the FPS, you'll notice the drops.

Why are you so bothered over this?

[DarkBlade2117]

2 hours ago, Chadders said:

Why are you so bothered over this?

I'm not, just I, andmany other people in this forum have explained, in multiple threads and post that right now, 90% of AMD CPU's are dead in most places. I would bet my i3 will beat you "hexa" core CPU in 95% of benches.

[Chadders]

Could I please have some reccomendations for a new cpu and motherboard then please?

[Demonking]

1 hour ago, Chadders said:

Could I please have some reccomendations for a new cpu and motherboard then please?

Wait for Zen please.