what should i do?

[Soap1]

Hello guys i want to upgrade my pc. atm i have an fx 8370 4.00ghz and a r9 280x and i dont know what to do.  upgrade my r9 280x to an  gtx 1070 to play all the new games like  battlefiled 1 , deus ex ..., but the gtx  will get bottleneck caused of my cpu or i buy a new motherboard with an intel i7 6700k and a cpu cooler? 

 

what do you think?

 

hope for a lot of opinions !

[Daan101]

im not shure but I think the fx 8370 has twice the core count at about the same speed as the I7 6700k, I don't know for sure but I think it means the fx 8370 is equal or better than the I7 6700k, no? anyway if the numbers mean the same as they do on the i7 it will not bottleneck.

If i'm wrong be sure to correct me

 

 

[DarkBlade2117]

4 minutes ago, Daan101 said:

im not shure but I think the fx 8370 has twice the core count at about the same speed as the I7 6700k, I don't know for sure but I think it means the fx 8370 is equal or better than the I7 6700k, no? anyway if the numbers mean the same as they do on the i7 it will not bottleneck.

If i'm wrong be sure to correct me

 

 

Nope, wrong. The IPC of the FX series is so bad that it'll compare to my OCd i3 in gaming. The 1070 bottlenecks i5's in some scenarios and will almost always bottleneck a FX8370 in almost every game.

[Daan101]

2 minutes ago, DarkBlade2117 said:

Nope, wrong. The IPC of the FX series is so bad that it'll compare to my OCd i3 in gaming. The 1070 bottlenecks i5's in some scenarios and will almost always bottleneck a FX8370 in almost every game.

that would explain my uncertanty and odd feeling about a processor thats 3 years old and better then the new ones, it does explain that too

thanks, you seem to know more about it than me.

[Soap1]

3 minutes ago, DarkBlade2117 said:

Nope, wrong. The IPC of the FX series is so bad that it'll compare to my OCd i3 in gaming. The 1070 bottlenecks i5's in some scenarios and will almost always bottleneck a FX8370 in almost every game.

so? you mean my idea with new mobo and i7 its the beter way?

[SeaPanda]

Just now, Soap1 said:

Hello guys i want to upgrade my pc. atm i have an fx 8370 4.00ghz and a r9 280x and i dont know what to do.  upgrade my r9 280x to an  gtx 1070 to play all the new games like  battlefiled 1 , deus ex ..., but the gtx  will get bottleneck caused of my cpu or i buy a new motherboard with an intel i7 6700k and a cpu cooler? 

 

what do you think?

 

hope for a lot of opinions !

 

If you're just using the pc for gaming then I would go with the 1070. If you're not playing at 4k I don't think you should run into any major bottlenecking issues. Just upgrade your cpu and mobo in the near future.

[Gonio]

9 minutes ago, Daan101 said:

im not shure but I think the fx 8370 has twice the core count at about the same speed as the I7 6700k, I don't know for sure but I think it means the fx 8370 is equal or better than the I7 6700k, no? anyway if the numbers mean the same as they do on the i7 it will not bottleneck.

If i'm wrong be sure to correct me

 

 

Nah, this is a wrong assumption. Way more things factoring in then only core count and clockspeed. You can't say that at same clockspeeds the performance is the same.

 

For OP: it's best to have a solid base to work from and since you currently already manage for a while with the 280x suggest you upgrade CPU first. Pick something good there like the 6700k can get you several years and possible GPU upgrades further.

[DarkBlade2117]

1 hour ago, Sebastian Kurpiel said:

If you're just using the pc for gaming then I would go with the 1070. If you're not playing at 4k I don't think you should run into any major bottlenecking issues. Just upgrade your cpu and mobo in the near future.

Actually quite the opposite, the bottleneck would be quite less in 4k

[Soap1]

35 minutes ago, DarkBlade2117 said:

Actually quite the opposite, the bottleneck would be quite less in 4k

i play only at 1080p i will never play at 4k guys