What CPU to not bottleneck gtx 1080

[IdiotPenguin]

Alright so I'm upgrading in a few months from my crappy i5 4460 and gtx 750 Ti to a gtx 1080. I'm pretty much a beginner and I have been researching in the past month or so and its been going pretty well and I also have a friend who's recently built his own pc so I think I'm pretty set but I don't know what CPU I should get with the 1080. It would be nice if I could get recommendations along with motherboards and ram. I'm willing to spend 1,500 at most. Looking for Intel CPUs. My monitor is 144 hz and 1080p but I'll probably get a 4K sooner or later

[Theguywhobea]

Grab an i5-8600K and you'll be looking pretty cool my dude.

[ARikozuM]

I would grab a 4770 or going for a 4790K for the higher frequency it has compared to the non-K 4790. 

[i_build_nanosuits]

14 minutes ago, IdiotPenguin said:

Alright so I'm upgrading in a few months from my crappy i5 4460 and gtx 750 Ti to a gtx 1080. I'm pretty much a beginner and I have been researching in the past month or so and its been going pretty well and I also have a friend who's recently built his own pc so I think I'm pretty set but I don't know what CPU I should get with the 1080. It would be nice if I could get recommendations along with motherboards and ram. I'm willing to spend 1,500 at most. Looking for Intel CPUs. My monitor is 144 hz and 1080p but I'll probably get a 4K sooner or later

i7-4770 or better on intel's side

R5 1600 or better on AMD side.

[i_build_nanosuits]

14 minutes ago, IdiotPenguin said:

Alright so I'm upgrading in a few months from my crappy i5 4460

in this situation i would get an 4c/8 thread chip that fit in your current board...make sure you have 16GB of ram and you'll be good to go.

[faziten]

Haswell, skylake, kaby i7 + OC
Coffe i5/i7 + OC
Haswell-E/ Broadwell-E/Skylake-E + OC
Ryzen 1600, 1700, 1800 and their X versions + OC

OC is quite relevant for high maximum FPS, and high 1% & .1% Just like faster RAM. It wont necesary add more fps, but it will make it more consistent, so you dont go from 144 to 60, 50.

4c/4t just wont cut it anymore for 144hz.Thats why everything listed has 6 or more threads. AI, Shadows, physics, and texture streaming will eat alive any 4c/4t cpu no matter how high your OC is, and will cut your maximum fps by quite a bit.