As of right now I plan on buying these as soon as I have the money,
AMD FX 8350 CPU
MSI 990FZA-GD80 Motherboard
Kingston Hyper X 8gb (2x4gb) DDR3 2133 XMPT1
I will be reusing everything else from my current PC until I have enough money to upgrade the GPU. Now having said all that, how bad will my 260 bottleneck the system?
I don't really want to do the research, not only that but i have no clue which processor you're asking about (mind you i will if you really dont want to) so consider this a lesson for future bottlenecking questions.
Step 1. Find a NONBOTTLENECKED benchmark of your cpu.
Step 2. Find a NONBOTTLENECKED benchmark of the 280, note these benchmarks needs to be identicle so an example would be Battlefield3 on stock ultra.
Step 3. Take the maximum amount of frames rendered in the CPU test, subract the max from the GPU test and you'll have a rough estimate.
Typically a really good site will not use high graphical fidelity on a CPU benchmark, but if the do it will most likely be with a highend card. Also if you take anything away from logans cpu comparision video it's that the 7870 has the perfect amount of horsepower for the 8350.
"not only that but i have no clue which processor you're asking about"
That is why I replied the way I did. It wasn't meant to be insulting or anything. I'm sorry if I upset you. I thought maybe you skipped over something in my first post accidentally. Plus I am really bad at math but I am going to see if I can find any info with google. Thanks :)