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Will my cpu botteneck a GTX970?

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#1 ·
Hello,

I was considering to buy the Gigabyte GTX970 gaming, but I wondered if buying that card would even profit my pc or if it won't be a usefull upgrade.

This PC is mainly used for high end gaming btw

My specs are :

PSU: Corsair AX860
Mobo : Asus Maximus V Formula (with watercooling installed on it)
CPU : Watercooled Intel Core I7 2600K @ 4,8GHZ
GPU : MSI GTX580 Twin Frozr ii/OC Edition.
RAM : Corsair Vengeance 1600mhz

Will it be worth it to upgrade to a 970?

One major point is the TDP of the 970 in comparison to my 580

Would like to hear what yo think!
 
#8 ·
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.
 
#10 ·
Lol even a stock 2600k won't bottleneck any single gpu out there. You have a strong overclock on it too, you're fine for a long time
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#12 ·
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Originally Posted by Duality92 View Post

I hate how this bottleneck thing has blown out of proportion that makes everyone reconsider they're CPUs. /endrant
Agreed, you have to go a while back to find a cpu bottleneckin, I'm guessing when dual cores were the bee's knees. Just a guess though.
 
#13 ·
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.
 
#14 ·
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Originally Posted by BrightCandle View Post

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.
Your CPU isn't the problem, the game is. Nothing can solve bad coding.
 
#15 ·
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Originally Posted by Liranan View Post

Your CPU isn't the problem, the game is. Nothing can solve bad coding.
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.
 
#16 ·
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Originally Posted by BrightCandle View Post

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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