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So i have a friend that wants to upgrade his pc.

I was thinking about dropping in a gtx1060 3gb since its more power efficient and overall abit better than a rx480.

But he has a intel i5-3470 and i was wondering if this would bottleneck the cpu by alot?

I have read forumposts that say yes, and i've read ones that say no...

 

He has 8Gb of ram and a 600w psu so he should be fine there.

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Well Id stick with the 480 for a start, the 3gb 1060 is not a better card.

 

The bottleneck would be there, but it still provide a decent FPS

 

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4 minutes ago, maxime_vhw said:

So i have a friend that wants to upgrade his pc.

I was thinking about dropping in a gtx1060 3gb since its more power efficient and overall abit better than a rx480.

But he has a intel i5-3470 and i was wondering if this would bottleneck the cpu by alot?

I have read forumposts that say yes, and i've read ones that say no...

 

He has 8Gb of ram and a 600w psu so he should be fine there.

It shouldn't bottleneck the CPU much. Keep in mind no matter how good the system is, there will always be a bottleneck somewhere.

 

Also, since it looks like he's staying with budget parts (and therefore keeping parts for a little while longer) I'd recommend an AMD GPU because drivers.

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5 minutes ago, maxime_vhw said:

So i have a friend that wants to upgrade his pc.

I was thinking about dropping in a gtx1060 3gb since its more power efficient and overall abit better than a rx480.

But he has a intel i5-3470 and i was wondering if this would bottleneck the cpu by alot?

I have read forumposts that say yes, and i've read ones that say no...

 

He has 8Gb of ram and a 600w psu so he should be fine there.

the rx 480 4gb performs better with enough vram for 1080p.

skip to 15:06, 5fps better on average while the rx 470 is around the same performance.

there shouldn't be much bottlenecking with that i5, it's still decent enough for gaming.

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I had a similar setup with a R9 390x on the i5 3470 @ 4.2 and it wasn't so much as a bottleneck, but it affected minimum frame rates a lot, constant dips to 40fps, and occasional stuttering. On upgrading to an i7 3820 @ 4.5 I never dip under 90fps on BF1 with Ultra everything and 125% resolution scale on a 1080p 120HZ monitor.

 

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28 minutes ago, maxime_vhw said:

So i have a friend that wants to upgrade his pc.

I was thinking about dropping in a gtx1060 3gb since its more power efficient and overall abit better than a rx480.

But he has a intel i5-3470 and i was wondering if this would bottleneck the cpu by alot?

I have read forumposts that say yes, and i've read ones that say no...

 

He has 8Gb of ram and a 600w psu so he should be fine there.

Honestly, I wouldn't consider bottle-necking a big problem, I know people go crazy over it but look, I have an i3 2100 and a GTX 980. Most games run just fine, there is stuttering but I really don't mind it because it's not that bad. Your friend has a quad core, so I really don't think there will be a big bottleneck there. But it depends, I honestly am a ghetto pc enthusiast, I really DGAF about bottlenecks, it depends on your friend, if he cares about every single fps or a few lower than possible is fine, with me that is the case, I really don't mind, having a 980 makes a big difference than not, and I am not complaining.

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41 minutes ago, maxime_vhw said:

ow fuck i typed 480 xD had to be 470. But hey im also open for 480.

 

But still here i dont see too much diffrence between rx480 and 1060. in some games the rx480 wins, in some the 1060 wins...

Lets check the prices

 

It's true, that those 2 cards perform the same today, but GCN (AMD's Core Architecture) is better geared for new low level APIs. We should expect the RX 480 to pull ahead in games based on dx12 and vulkan (properly implemented, as clearly demonstrated in DOOM).

Remember, the GTX1060 3GB is a cut-down/crippled chip, while the RX480 4GB is not.

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1 hour ago, maxime_vhw said:

ow fuck i typed 480 xD had to be 470. But hey im also open for 480.

 

But still here i dont see too much diffrence between rx480 and 1060. in some games the rx480 wins, in some the 1060 wins...

Lets check the prices

 

RX480 wins in some but 1060 wins in others.

That statement is true, and will stay true.

 

If you want to play DX11 or lower games, the 1060 will win there, almost always.

For newer games (and future games) that use newer APIs (DX12, Vulkan) the 480 is almost always a guaranteed winner.

 

Want to know which mobo to get?

Spoiler

Choose whatever you need. Any more, you're wasting your money. Any less, and you don't get the features you need.

 

Only you know what you need to do with your computer, so nobody's really qualified to answer this question except for you.

 

chEcK iNsidE sPoilEr fOr a tREat!

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