Will a Q9650 bottleneck a GTX 970

[AnalogCanavity]

My friend is Reconstructing a LGA 775 PC and I was wondering if a Q9650 bottleneck a GTX 970

 

Thanks

[MrJarhead]

short answer- yes.

[Megah3rtz]

Yes. The performance is behind a pentium g4560. 

[NTDaws]

Yes.

[WkdPaul]

Yes, my old 775 was actually bottlenecking my HD7870, though not by much (less than 10% if I remember right)

[Ordinarily_Greater]

1 minute ago, wkdpaul said:

Yes, my old 775 was actually bottlenecking my HD7870, though not by much (less than 10% if I remember right)

I think that OP's Friend would play BF1 as the heaviest game will be on his PC. Is it enough? And I think he won't bottleneck it because most games he play are GPU Bound

[MrJarhead]

3 minutes ago, Ordinarily_Greater said:

I think that OP's Friend would play BF1 as the heaviest game will be on his PC. Is it enough? And I think he won't bottleneck it because most games he play are GPU Bound

is this a troll or a serious question? battlefield 1 bottlenecks i5s, never mind cpus from 2008

[Ordinarily_Greater]

Just now, MrJarhead said:

is this a troll or a serious question? battlefield 1 bottlenecks i5s, never mind cpus from 2008

Seriously, I've never tried troll before in this forum. So it will bottleneck even games are GPU bound?

[MrJarhead]

Just now, Ordinarily_Greater said:

Seriously, I've never tried troll before in this forum. So it will bottleneck even games are GPU bound?

the cpu would probably be maxed out in the majority of games, he could probably get away with games like csgo, possibly.

[Ordinarily_Greater]

1 minute ago, MrJarhead said:

the cpu would probably be maxed out in the majority of games, he could probably get away with games like csgo, possibly.

What if racing games? Need for Speed Most Wanted (2012) and other racing games (NFS Shift, Hot Pursuit (HP)

[MrJarhead]

Just now, Ordinarily_Greater said:

What if racing games? Need for Speed Most Wanted (2012) and other racing games (NFS Shift, Hot Pursuit (HP)

he would probably pull 60fps on older titles like that.

[MrJarhead]

im actually suprised at the cpu in all fairness, 60fps on bioshock, 90fps on doom with high-ultra settings.

 

with the same gpu.

[chexor]

There will be bottleneck, but if you already have good deal on GTX 970, get it, then save some money to upgrade to some i5 7500 or even g4560

[Ordinarily_Greater]

2 hours ago, chexor said:

There will be bottleneck, but if you already have good deal on GTX 970, get it, then save some money to upgrade to some i5 7500 or even g4560

OP said that his friend got that GTX 970 for $202 used