Is My GPU Being Bottlenecked?

[BestSpeling]

Hello everyone once again,

  Would my current Intel Pentium G3258 overclocked at 4.2 GHz bottleneck a MSI GTX 970 Gaming GPU? 

[DocSwag]

Possibly in some games, though I'd be more worried about some games not even launching on a dual core.

[musama18117]

Yes, how much? 

 

I don't know.

 

Definitely gets bottlenecked though.

[BestSpeling]

3 minutes ago, DocSwag said:

Possibly in some games, though I'd be more worried about some games not even launching on a dual core.

Why would you say that?

[DocSwag]

1 minute ago, BestSpeling said:

Why would you say that?

There are some games, like Far Cry 4, that refuse two launch on two threads. I'd say your more likely to find that as an issue than your CPU bottlenecking a 970.

[BestSpeling]

2 minutes ago, DocSwag said:

There are some games, like Far Cry 4, that refuse two launch on two threads. I'd say your more likely to find that as an issue than your CPU bottlenecking a 970.

Would there be significant bottlenecking in other games such as  Overwatch and H1Z1? If it is, would it be worth it to downgrade to a r9 390x 4GB?

[Guest lilbman]

2 minutes ago, BestSpeling said:

Would there be significant bottlenecking in other games such as  Overwatch and H1Z1? If it is, would it be worth it to downgrade to a r9 390x 4GB?

Get a quad core.

 

Some games won't even open on a dual core.

[PCMasterDebater]

System setup at the time was

G3258 @4.2ghz

EVGA 970 SC

16gbs DDR3 @ 2133mhz

SSD

 

I ran this setup for 6 months or so. Worked great @ 1080p with games like LoL, Heroes of the Storm, CSGO, 7 days to die, GTAV, Spin Tires, Osiris, Sims 4, SimCIty. Each game took some tweaking to achieve the 60-120fps goal but it did work.

 

Now that CPU has a 680 classified tied to it.

 

Ignore the people that tell you to upgrade. There is no need unless you're already considering it.

 

 

 

[DocSwag]

15 minutes ago, BestSpeling said:

Would there be significant bottlenecking in other games such as  Overwatch and H1Z1? If it is, would it be worth it to downgrade to a r9 390x 4GB?

I'm not too familiar with those two games so I don't know if they're more CPU intensive or not, but I know Overwatch isn't hard to run so even if the g3258 bottlenecks you should still get 1080p 60fps. H1Z1 might run a little lower but you should be fine for the most part. And I don't think you should ever downgrade your GPU, I don't think it should have any benefits to downgrade but I'm not completely sure.

[BestSpeling]

4 minutes ago, PCMasterDebater said:

System setup at the time was

G3258 @4.2ghz

EVGA 970 SC

16gbs DDR3 @ 2133mhz

SSD

 

I ran this setup for 6 months or so. Worked great @ 1080p with games like LoL, Heroes of the Storm, CSGO, 7 days to die, GTAV, Spin Tires, Osiris, Sims 4, SimCIty. Each game took some tweaking to achieve the 60-120fps goal but it did work.

 

Now that CPU has a 680 classified tied to it.

 

Ignore the people that tell you to upgrade. There is no need unless you're already considering it.

 

 

 

Oh okay that is some really good advice. What do you mean by  "Now that CPU has a 680 classified tied to it." ?

[BestSpeling]

3 minutes ago, DocSwag said:

I'm not too familiar with those two games so I don't know if they're more CPU intensive or not, but I know Overwatch isn't hard to run so even if the g3258 bottlenecks you should still get 1080p 60fps. H1Z1 might run a little lower but you should be fine for the most part. And I don't think you should ever downgrade your GPU, I don't think it should have any benefits to downgrade but I'm not completely sure.

I am sorry for the wording what I meant was, should I downgrade my future purchase of the 970 to a r9 280x

[PCMasterDebater]

I swapped the EVGA 970 for a EVGA 680 classified for reasons. The 970 got moved over to the FX8350 for reasons.

[BestSpeling]

3 minutes ago, PCMasterDebater said:

I swapped the EVGA 970 for a EVGA 680 classified for reasons. The 970 got moved over to the FX8350 for reasons.

Oh okay bro, that must of been some interesting reasons lol.

[DocSwag]

1 minute ago, BestSpeling said:

I am sorry for the wording what I meant was, should I downgrade my future purchase of the 970 to a r9 280x

Oh you don't have the 970 yet. Honestly a 970 should be fine, afterall in some games I think a g3258 would be fine so you'd be getting some more performance, so unless it's quite a bit more I'd get a 970. Outta curiousity, why aren't you getting a newer card like a 1050 ti or rx 470? Are they more expensive where you live?

[JohnTheDawn]

35 minutes ago, BestSpeling said:

Hello everyone once again,

  Would my current Intel Pentium G3258 overclocked at 4.2 GHz bottleneck a MSI GTX 970 Gaming GPU? 

yes that does bottleneck it, i would suggest buying an i5 4670k or 4690k, that wont bottleneck a gtx 1070 

[PCMasterDebater]

I have to many computers. They all have a purpose but ya can't say to much on this website or you get lynched. There is little understanding on this forum. Everyone says "I would just upgrade to so and so, cause money grows on trees!!!!" Or "why would you do that, I would have done this xxxxx because XXXXX reasons!"

 

Typical though. Everyone has an opinion but few people have the experience.

[BestSpeling]

3 minutes ago, DocSwag said:

Oh you don't have the 970 yet. Honestly a 970 should be fine, afterall in some games I think a g3258 would be fine so you'd be getting some more performance, so unless it's quite a bit more I'd get a 970. Outta curiousity, why aren't you getting a newer card like a 1050 ti or rx 470? Are they more expensive where you live?

Well my choices for my GPU exchange is either a r9 380x or a GTX 970

[BestSpeling]

2 minutes ago, PCMasterDebater said:

I have to many computers. They all have a purpose but ya can't say to much on this website or you get lynched. There is little understanding on this forum. Everyone says "I would just upgrade to so and so, cause money grows on trees!!!!" Or "why would you do that, I would have done this xxxxx because XXXXX reasons!"

 

Typical though. Everyone has an opinion but few people have the experience.

Oh okay that sucks, I am new to these forums so I would not know

[DocSwag]

4 minutes ago, BestSpeling said:

Well my choices for my GPU exchange is either a r9 380x or a GTX 970

Yeah just get the better one (970).

[BestSpeling]

10 minutes ago, DocSwag said:

Yeah just get the better one (970).

What it be worth the hassle for exchanging my mobo + cpu for an intel Intel Core i3-6100 SkyLake 3.7 GHz and a LGA 1151 mobo? (would there be an significant performance difference with it)

 

sorry for all these questions, I am just deciding between several things right now

[DocSwag]

2 hours ago, BestSpeling said:

What it be worth the hassle for exchanging my mobo + cpu for an intel Intel Core i3-6100 SkyLake 3.7 GHz and a LGA 1151 mobo? (would there be an significant performance difference with it)

 

sorry for all these questions, I am just deciding between several things right now

It might make a bit of a difference but you'd have to exchange the RAM too; going to Skylake would just be too much of a hassle. If you wanted to upgrade your CPU I'd just upgrade it to another Haswell CPU like the i3-4160 or i5-4460.