Bottleneck

[Ging06]

Hey there!

 

So, I'm looking into purchasing a new GPU, mainly for the reason that my gaming experience is slowly dwindling as the fps is getting lower and lower. 

My current gpu is a GTX 760, it's done wonders for the past couple years but its time for an upgrade, I was thinking of a 1070.

 

I was looking into upgrading my whole pc, but I do not have a high enough budget to purchase a graphics card along with all the other components, so I thought I might buy just the GPU.

My current build: 

 - CPU: i7 4770k @4.5Ghz

- GPU: GTX 760

- MOBO: Gigabyte GA-Z87-HD3

- RAM: 16GB Naked Kingston sticks 

 

I have concerns that it would be a dumb thing to just upgrade the gpu, I'm fairly confident that the cpu will bottleneck me to such a length that it wouldn't even be worth purchasing the gpu.

 

My questions:

Will the CPU Bottleneck the gpu to a point of making it obsolete?

Should I go for an older card like a 970, and save a couple more hundred euro to upgrade the whole PC?

Are there any other options?

 

Thank you for taking your time to read this, Ryan.

[Lurick]

No, it won't bottleneck the card 1070, not even close  

[Mick Naughty]

Depends on the game, res and settings. I use my 1080 with my 3770k and leave my 4790k to my old cards. You should be fine, if you do have an issue, could always use the frame limiter.

 

I have a few issues sometimes with capping out the cpu, some games don't care some do.

[Morgan MLGman]

No, you're fine with that CPU

[Howitz]

your cpu is all good man, have absolutely no concern. you can even get a gtx1080 and have no bottleneck in most games.

[Ging06]

Oh great! That really put my mind to ease. I really appreciate all of your comments and thanks