I am going to disagree with everyone else and say yes with a load of caveats.
Some games are very GPU resource dominated and don't need a lot of CPU to drive them at top graphics and frame rates. Some games are the opposite and almost exclusively driven by CPU performance. The more GPU performance you have the more games you see limited by the CPU. Thus at some point with a 970 you are going to come across a game that is limited by your CPU performance.
However its not like there is a lot you can do about it, the level of performance you have is already better than most so its not like its really possible to fix the issue.
I am 100% CPU bottlenecked in arma 3, there isn't a thing anyone can do about that games single threaded implementation to change it. No matter what you so on the latest patch it's 30-50 fps with nothing happening. There are always a few of these games about. But since CPUs stopped gaining performance its not like upgrading is going to bring much extra.
I am 100% CPU bottlenecked in arma 3, there isn't a thing anyone can do about that games single threaded implementation to change it. No matter what you so on the latest patch it's 30-50 fps with nothing happening. There are always a few of these games about. But since CPUs stopped gaining performance its not like upgrading is going to bring much extra.
Absolutely, but if that is the game you want to play then upgrading to a Haswell could bring 20% extra frame rate. I said before its rare, and it is and its due to poor decisions from the development team but it happens every now and then that the game you are playing is CPU limited.
Absolutely, but if that is the game you want to play then upgrading to a Haswell could bring 20% extra frame rate. I said before its rare, and it is and its due to poor decisions from the development team but it happens every now and then that the game you are playing is CPU limited.
His 2600K is clocked at 4.8. You'd have to get a DC i7 to 4.8 to justify that move. That's an unlikely overclock on Haswell too. Unless he has an amazing water cooler, but then just push the 2600k to 5-5.2 if that's the case.
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