Will an FX 8370 bottleneck my GTX 1060 6Gb?

[Salamidealer]

Hello, I have been planning to upgrade my CPU for a while now ( currently have an FX 8320 ) But to get a newer processor I would need a new mainboard and RAM, which can get a little expensive. I have 140€ and found an FX 8370 online for 100€.
If I got the FX 8370, would it bottleneck my GPU?
Would I need a strong CPU cooler?
Thanks in advance.

[⛧EyMi Mayhem⛧]

Don't think it's worth to upgrade from 8320 to 8370, just do some oc..
And bottleneck, yes/no, it depends on the game.

CPU cooler or not, what do u have atm, amd stock cooler?
You have $140..
So 2 things u could do, save the money for up2date hardware or spend some money on extra ddr3 and a decent cpu cooler.
A good low budget cooler for example the coolermaster evo.

*And no, both FX have the same socket, so no new mobo.

[Salamidealer]

Originally posted by ⛧EyMi Mayhem⛧:

Don't think it's worth to upgrade from 8320 to 8370, just do some oc..
And bottleneck, yes/no, it depends on the game.

CPU cooler or not, what do u have atm, amd stock cooler? And whats your budget?

I think I swapped it at some point. I do not remember which one I bought, best I can do atm is send you a picture https://ibb.co/fhdV95
Budget is around 140€

[⛧EyMi Mayhem⛧]

Originally posted by Schwuppel:

I think I swapped it at some point. I do not remember which one I bought, best I can do atm is send you a picture https://ibb.co/fhdV95

Looks like arctic freezer 7.

[Big Boom Boom]

Looks like

https://www.arctic.ac/worldwide_en/freezer-7-pro-rev-2.html

Looks very weak vs Hyper 212 which is a budget cooler itself.

https://img.purch.com/o/aHR0cDovL21lZGlhLmJlc3RvZm1pY3JvLmNvbS9CL1YvMjM2Mjk5L29yaWdpbmFsL2ltYWdlMDAyLnBuZw==
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/lga-1156-heatsink,2535-14.html

I would recommend grabbing Hyper 212 EVO, it's cheap and it can actually handle AMD FX 8 cores overclock. The competitor Cryorig H7 can not due to its low TDP design.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Just get better CPU Cooler and OC that 8320.
Stock to stock comparisons; 8320, 50, 70 are all roughly the same performance.

[upcoast]

What motherboard is the FX8320 on?

What's the temp on the FX8320 now with load P95 or GTA 5? If you're getting a new cooler the H7 edges out the 212evo but either will do.

Most of the FX8xxx do roughly the same 4.2-4.4GHZ overclock.

1st step before you do anything really is set Power Options in windows to High Performance then boot into bios and disable c1e/turbo core/cool n quiet, basically get it working the way it should be.

As far as your original bottleneck question some games yes but they wouldn't be unplayable most games won't show a bottleneck with that class of gpu.

[Wakobi Junior]

Ditch the fx, go for a new Ryzen or a Intel, you will probably also need to upgrade your MOBO

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Originally posted by Ugnak:

Ditch the fx, go for a new Ryzen or a Intel, you will probably also need to upgrade your MOBO

Yea that would be a must due to socket and such. Can't just except to ditch a working setup and spend hundreds for new Motherboard + CPU + DDR4 RAM. There is literally nothing wrong with AMD FX-8 if your Motherboard and Cooler aren't total crap.