Question about bottlenecking

[John Widner]

First of all I am new here so forgive me if this is in the wrong place.
I would like to know if my system has a bottle neck and if it does can i get some suggestions.

Currently have:
AMD FX 8150 4.0 ghz
8 gigs of Kingston ram
Radion HD 5770 Gpu
Seagate 1Tb 7200 rpm HDD

I would like a SATA 3 motherboard and an SSD to add. But I'm not very sure what are good compatible ones. Do I need more RAM or newer Gpu?

 

[unksol]

All systems have bottlenecks. An SSD does nothing for FPS if you are trying to play games. You have more than enough ram and anymore would be wasted.

You have a 3 generation old medium low end (at the time) card. It needs upgraded if you want to play modern games.

 

[thee_prisoner]

I assume you are gaming but since this is in the HT forum, I'm not sure.

The 5770 is still a decent card but it depends on what games you want to play, what setting and what resolution. Like unksol, said a SSD or more RAM won't help but with a lot of RAM, a RAM disk will blow away any SSD.

The cpu is fine but you might want to do some research before getting a new GPU. To see if there will be any bottlenecks between the cpu and video card. SO for more bang for the buck, a GPU upgrade is always a good route.

link to how your video card compares:http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-graphics-card-review,3107-7.html

Happy gaming, the Prisoner...