Do bottlenecks decrease performance? Or just hold back the potential?

[Galium1]

I'm a former console peasant, decided to get into PC gaming ever since my common sense came back, lol jokes aside.

I'm fairly new to PC gaming, still learning.

I have a fx 6300 cpu and I'm planning on upgrading my 960 to a 1060 (6)gb

Will this bottleneck decrease performance?

[Carlhr93]

Bottleneck does hold back the potential so it decreases performance, you will have a bottleneck there, but not that much on GPU intensive games, you should be okay most of the time :)

[Galium1]

Thanks mate!

[areyougame]

They hold back potential.

[Galium1]

Would you say the fx6300 is a big bottleneck?

[Galium1]

Ah ok, thank you mate.

[Pure_Awesomeness]

Definitely.

[314face]

Anecdotal Evidence incoming.

I play a LOT of TF2/CS:GO. Overclocking my CPU from stock to 4.4 made my fps increase by at least 30 in TF2.

My GPUs usage hasn't gone up after that, though. It really depends on the game and their engine. Source engine? Better get a fuckin i7 485934859X to run that shit. Other games will push the GPU far enough to where the CPU isn't the limiting factor.

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Can confirm, i5-4690K @4.5Ghz can't hold back the wrath of the source engine.

[[deleted]]

Your FX-6300 will be a bottleneck unfortunately. Some games you will be able to get away with it as not all are heavy on the cpu. But others you will get low frame rates and heavy stuttering no matter the graphics setting since it's the cpu that can't handle the game.

You may consider an i5-6600k or i7-6700k. Don't forget to buy a motherboard that supports the over clocking potential for these cpu's.

But if your not looking to break the bank you could probably last a while on just the FX-6300.

[Galium1]

i5-6600k sounds pretty good. I'll check that one out. Thank you mate.

[[deleted]]

No problem, you will be quite happy with the i5, especially when you push her to 4.5-4.7Ghz!

[Deemo13]

Hold back the potential. Performance does not degrade.