Bottlenecking 101

[Swas2am]

I am looking for a gaming bundle for a CPU that wont bottle neck the GPU and vice versa. And if someone can get into more depth about bottlenecking that would be great. I was looking at a Ryzen 1800X but i don't want it to bottle neck my 4GB Gtx 960. Also another thing, price isn't my issue

[TheCherryKing]

4 minutes ago, Swas2am said:

I am looking for a gaming bundle for a CPU that wont bottle neck the GPU and vice versa. And if someone can get into more depth about bottlenecking that would be great. I was looking at a Ryzen 1800X but i don't want it to bottle neck my 4GB Gtx 960. Also another thing, price isn't my issue

That CPU will not bottleneck the GPU.

[MedievalMatt]

5 minutes ago, Swas2am said:

I am looking for a gaming bundle for a CPU that wont bottle neck the GPU and vice versa. And if someone can get into more depth about bottlenecking that would be great. I was looking at a Ryzen 1800X but i don't want it to bottle neck my 4GB Gtx 960. Also another thing, price isn't my issue

 

Just now, TheCherryKing said:

That CPU will not bottleneck the GPU.

 

What he said.  also... instead of getting an 1800X with a 960.  why not get a Ryzen 5 and a used 980ti, or a 1060 6GB?  Just Curious.

[xg32]

55 minutes ago, Swas2am said:

I am looking for a gaming bundle for a CPU that wont bottle neck the GPU and vice versa. And if someone can get into more depth about bottlenecking that would be great. I was looking at a Ryzen 1800X but i don't want it to bottle neck my 4GB Gtx 960. Also another thing, price isn't my issue

just a suggestion, i'd pair a 1700 with the 960 if you want 8 cores, a majority of 1700 will hit 3.8-3.9 ghz

[emosun]

2 hours ago, Swas2am said:

And if someone can get into more depth about bottlenecking that would be great

bottlenecking isn't too complicated

it only occurs when one component is at 100% usage and cannot go any faster and is preventing other components from being utilized more. basically a weak link in the chain

few people realize that a bottleneck only happens in this type of situation. Simply pairing unbalanced components together doesn't mean there's a bottleneck. it has to do with your usage. like a quad socketed system with 4 xeons paired with a very low end 32mb onboard gpu. so long as the system is doing cpu intensive work and not gpu intensive , then there is no bottleneck. the gpu isn't preventing the cpu's from doing their job

[faziten]

It wont bottleneck even in your dreams.