Is the i5 4690k really a bottleneck for the GTX 1070? I just found out about this meme after I ordered pic related

Is the i5 4690k really a bottleneck for the GTX 1070? I just found out about this meme after I ordered pic related.

Am I good or should I cancel it?

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Absolutely, that's around as good as the processor I just upgraded from.

Depends on the game, and in some cases, even the location in the game. Watch Dogs, for example, runs much better with an i7 than an i5, so there are some games that benefit from hyperthreading.

for modern games, maybe

but not by a huge amount

>buying an i7 for video games
I hate this meme.

I have an i5 4690 and 1080
It's a bottleneck, but it's usually not an issue. Still getting way above 60FPS

>buying MSI

LMAO

nVIDIA you go EVGA or Zotac and AMD you go XFX.

>Is the i5 4690k really a bottleneck for the GTX 1070?
no

higher clock speeds are always welcome
hyperthreading support is becoming more relevant to gaming every day

>hyperthreading support is becoming more relevant to gaming every day
Nice meme.

nice denial

>Nice meme.
Nice denial. Have fun reaping the benefits of DirectX 12 and Vulkan friend.

even the Dragon's Dogma PC port benefits from HT
or are you just a neo-Sup Forums contrarian?
Keep in mind this isn't 2006 anymore

>2006 was 27 years ago...

really engages the frontal lobe of your cerebral cortex

ark.intel.com/products/52213/Intel-Core-i7-2600-Processor-8M-Cache-up-to-3_80-GHz

Is this any good?

>Is the i5 4690k really a bottleneck for the GTX 1070?

No, not at all.

Living in 2033 how does it feel? Well a lot like 2016

Better buy a 6950X

I have a i5-4430 and a 1070, shit doesn't bottleneck. Don't see why yours would.

I want a 1070 but the prices all seem inflated. What price are they supposed to be at and what brand would be best? Have an MSI 760 now and it seems good.

MSRP for non founders is supposed to be $379

Good fucking luck finding one for that

don't, wait a couple of months before even thinking of buying it literally no point in getting a 10XX or 480 atm

>idiot with an expensive GPU and a shit CPU thinks his opinion is worth anything
That is a nice extra chromosome you got there.

>Is the i5 4690k really a bottleneck for the GTX 1070? I just found out about this meme after I ordered pic related.

No it isn't. There are situations where the CPU won't be able to keep up with the GPU but it's gonna be rare. So I like to use the term percentile bottleneck, this CPU is 99% fine for gaming with a GTX 1070. An example of a bottleneck that will occur with that CPU is Novigrad in Witcher 3, CPU usage will be high and your FPS will tank a bit.

If you also can, overclocking your CPU and RAM helps reduce minimum FPS that occurs with CPU bottlenecking.

>He hasn't uograded to Skylake
Poorfag PC gamers need to go back to consoles.

You retards are wasting too much on a card that shits itself on DX12 and Vulkan, and can't do perfect 60FPS at 4K. If its performance is shit now wait next year, enjoy your sub 45 FPS on your 4K meme monitor.

Reminder a GTX1070 cannot even play Gears of War ultimate at constant 60 FPS at 1080p.

>He hasn't uograded to Broadwell E
Poorfag PC gamers need to go back to consoles.

This, if you guys aren't over clocking, you're literally wasting money.

I've got my old i7 920 OC'd to around 3.8 ghz and shit still works great.

Might finally start getting bottlenecked when I get a rx 480, but otherwise, I should be fine.

Skylake is a fucking meme and a way for Intel to jew out their pch chipsets to motherboard partners because of sky lakes intentionally gimped pci-e lane support.

There's no reason other than pure jewery that skylake only has 16 lanes when the 4000 series had at minimum 20

Not running your processors for 6-7 years by over clocking the shit out of them

You guys do know that Moore's law is slowing down right?

>If you also can, overclocking your CPU and RAM helps reduce minimum FPS that occurs with CPU bottlenecking.
I have 16GB of RAM clocked at 2400MHz and my i5 is running at 4GHz. I'm also planning to overclock the 1070 as soon as I receive it and do some testing with it.

skylake's only a slight performance increase over devil's canyon

also
>reddit-tier "le pcmasterrace" nerds like you constantly mock console players for being brand whores and addicted consumerist cucks
>proceed to be a brand whore over pc parts and blow hundreds of dollars per year on marginal upgrades

I despise the mindless consumerism element that has been infecting PC gaming in recent years.

Why in SWEET FUCK are you remotely personally offended by a mere throwaway hypothetical situation I proposed? What exactly is your malfunction here?

What the fuck is wrong with you people? How on earth have a bunch of you managed to take an innocent passing comment and completely spin it into a massive strawman and get personal over it. Just how fucking insecure are you people? Jesus, get a fucking grip.

>bottleneck
Before we begin, do you even know what a bottleneck is and how common it is in 99% of PC builds?

Bottleneck TL:DR version:
>Being this salty because you're games runs at 90FPS instead of 95 - 100 FPS.

An overclocked 5930K is the master race CPU

No, anyone who told you is a i7 shill with a buyers remorse.

Daily reminder that you can still get a playable experience from a $20 Athlon II x4 from 7 years ago

Don't know why retards are jumping on you. Games have barely started to support 4 cores, let alone 8 cores.

I know what a bottleneck is and also I am aware that right now it's not a big problem, but give it some more time and my games will run at 50 FPS instead of 60. I want something that can keep me going for at least 3 years, like my old 770.

It's strange how the hardware today is a requirement when most games seem to have the same graphical fidelity as a few years ago

I would have killed for a 1080 in 2009, but today it's not as exciting

Indeed. Requirements are going up faster than graphical fidelity.

Things are getting pretty crazy core # and VRAM wise lately. i5 is not going to cut it soon, need to futureproof with 6 core.

I have an i7 2600k and an R9 290

Doesnt bottleneck at all

Is the RX 480 good to go with a i5 4690k?

>AMD
You answered your own question. No.

no, you need at least a 6700k. Unless you don't have that it's a no go.

There's not much difference between the 4/8 cores. 6700k is not much better than the previous generations.

ah man
just fuck my shit up

I just upgraded from that CPU to an i5 6600k (my mobo fried so I figured it was time to get modern after 6 years) and it's a better investment overall to go to Skylake/DDR4 if you're building a new PC. IIRC both CPUs cost about the same, but you seriously don't need to worry about having an i7 unless you're a professional-grade video producer. My sister is a computer animation student and she hasn't run into a single issue with her current rig and it runs the same CPU. i7 is overkill unless you're going to try for 4k or 2k 144fps. Just stick with the newest hardware in general if you're going for a fresh build.

Oh, plus it overclocks like a fucking dream. I've cranked mine up to 4 mhz with a temp increase of 5-10°C. This is all in comparison to the 2600, though. Other anons might have different experiences but this is mine.

yup it's a good combo

I have an i72600k (I know), upgrading from a 770 to a 1070

How fucked am I

Less optimized ports are becoming more common since the newest console generations are running x86, plus developers feel the need to add crazy performance-chomping bells and whistles to PC releases like Hairworks.

But I already have a i7

Overclock the best you can, but that bottleneck is gonna fucking hurt pretty soon. At least you'll be able to take the 1070 to your next build.

The 2600k is showing it's age, that's all I meant to point out. Didn't mean to ramble.

>msi

just fuck off

>I've cranked mine up to 4 mhz
My Pentium 3 machine shits on your PC.

Whats wrong with msi senpai?

Games are already showing 8 thread preference and it's only going to increase from here with DX12 adoption.

pcworld.com/article/3039552/hardware/tested-how-many-cpu-cores-you-really-need-for-directx-12-gaming.html

>i7 has better single thread performance than i5

yeah, fuck i7s

i hope senpai

>XFX not Sapphire
kys

i5 6500 here, upgraded it recently to get a new GPU along the way.
Are 1070 or 1060 a bad idea?

Literally less than $50 away from a 6600k, why did you buy a locked chip? Did you cheap out and not buy a Z170 motherboard?

My monitor only goes to 900p, does 1080p requires much more performance than 900?

Woah, really makes you think...

What is the best graphics card to post on reddit and render tumblr posts? (on 1080p)

1060 or FX 480?

HD 5450

rx 480

1600x900 ~1.44million pixels
1920x1080 ~2.050 mill. pixels

You'll lose about 10-30 fps

Anything amd because thats where amd users belong.

lmao gaming on a computer

Oh thats nice
I'll probably run anything in 900p with a 8gb RX480 then

No

Not really sure what z170 is. I got MSI H110M PRO-VD for a motherboard. Coupled with the RAM I got it was all I had on me when I got them.

The fuck are you talking about.
You'd need to go for a second gen i3 to start bottlenecking your CPU.

Yes, summerfriend. We play video games on computers. Is there a problem?

>medium

Consdering the i5 2500k holds up perfectly today, not at all.

Z97 or H97
Think fast

Depends on what it's clocked. My brother's 390 + stock FX 8350 build holds like 40fps in half the areas in Dark Souls 3. His 390 in my build with a 4670k at stock clocks would still drop into the low 50s but was overall way, way better. With my 4670k running at 4.4 GHz it never dipped below 60. Any 4670k should be able to hit 4.4 GHz under 1.3v which is pretty easy to sustain 24/7 with a decent air cooler or AIO. I have a 4670k @ 4.6 and a 980 Ti and I haven't run into a single thing so far that has made me feel like upgrading. I play most things at 1440p with a few settings and AA turned down to keep my minimum framerates close to or above 60.

literally the worst possible example you could ever come up with, it's embarrassing that you took the time to make this awful post

x99

>t-t-t-that doesn't count

ebic. I even took it from the shitty article you linked.

overclocking is for cucks

It's the only example that was an actual game and not some benchmarking tool

Where i live that motherfugga costs more than the rest of the setup combined

I just came into the thread to greentext friend

it was just a joke anyway

z97 supports overclocking
h97 doesnt

h97 also doesnt support crossfire/sli

so depends on what you want
h97 if you never plan on overclocking or crossfire/sli
z97 if you plan on overclocking or crossfire/sli

Between the z97, any major difference that could fuck up my plans between the tons of models like Z97 GAMING 3, Z97-DELUXE, Z97X, Z97-M MICROATX and the rest?

So a Z97 will ALWAYS be better than a H97 right?

what are you stupid?

im the guy thinking of buying a 480X
elaborate friendo

that game in particular is a buggy mess and locked to the UWP platform which is known to have its own share of issues, most people disregarded it at launch because of how fucking awfully optimized it was. it doesn't surprise me that the developers weren't competent enough to take advantage of multiple cores even on DX12 and using it to argue a point is like using Arkham Knight at launch to argue that "having a better GPU doesn't matter". I still believe that an i5 is more than enough for gaming but having an i7 DOES make a difference and the improvements are most visible when you look at minimum framerates which contribute a lot to overall smoothness. whether or not it's worth it to shell out the extra dosh over an i5 is up to the individual, I personally don't think so but that's just me.

how does it feel to game the wrong way?

a 4790k will outperform a 4690k most of the time even if its not a game which supports 8cores/hyperthreading but only by a few FPS.

Then again there's stuff like ARMA where you would expect the 4790k to shine yet 4690k does better (again just slightly)
h = budget mobos

its fine, a 2500k runs 980ti without much bottleneck

All strategy games coming out on PC prefer 4/8 cores. If you want ultra settings you want i7.

nice

I meant to reply to these two
Dumb dumb dumb