Will My System Bottleneck?

[Bs1234]

Hi everyone, so i'm planning on getting a new graphics card but i'm not sure which one yet. I'm currently running a gtx 960, which was doing fine until I was lucky enough to get a 144hz 1440p monitor for my birthday. So I was looking at the RTX 2060 or 2070 but i'm worried that my system will bottleneck.

 

My current build is as follows:

CPU:Intel i7 6700 3.4GHz

Ram: 8GB DDR3 (Plan  to upgrade soon)

MotherBoard: Gigabyte Technology Co. Ltd. Z170-HD3-CF

 

I'm open to any suggestions if you think I need to upgrade something else first or go for a different graphics card altogether. I have not overclocked my CPU as I don't really know what to do. Thanks.

[Yellow_]

You'll probably see a bottleneck here or there, but it shouldnt be horrible 

[eira]

There will be a small bottleneck but it's not going to be very noticeable. 1080p gaming will be fine, not 100% sure about 1440p gaming though.

[Turtle Rig]

53 minutes ago, Bs1234 said:

Hi everyone, so i'm planning on getting a new graphics card but i'm not sure which one yet. I'm currently running a gtx 960, which was doing fine until I was lucky enough to get a 144hz 1440p monitor for my birthday. So I was looking at the RTX 2060 or 2070 but i'm worried that my system will bottleneck.

 

My current build is as follows:

CPU:Intel i7 6700 3.4GHz

Ram: 8GB DDR3 (Plan  to upgrade soon)

MotherBoard: Gigabyte Technology Co. Ltd. Z170-HD3-CF

 

I'm open to any suggestions if you think I need to upgrade something else first or go for a different graphics card altogether. I have not overclocked my CPU as I don't really know what to do. Thanks.

At minimum you need a 2070 to drive 1440p with nv panel AA methods turned on and give you a crisp non jaggy experience.  You will hit 144fps but will have dips, but that is what freesync is for.  Your CPU will hold you back tho 3.4Ghz will not cut it.  Also definitely go 16GB RAM with SSD as well.

[xg32]

1 hour ago, Bs1234 said:

Hi everyone, so i'm planning on getting a new graphics card but i'm not sure which one yet. I'm currently running a gtx 960, which was doing fine until I was lucky enough to get a 144hz 1440p monitor for my birthday. So I was looking at the RTX 2060 or 2070 but i'm worried that my system will bottleneck.

 

My current build is as follows:

CPU:Intel i7 6700 3.4GHz

Ram: 8GB DDR3 (Plan  to upgrade soon)

MotherBoard: Gigabyte Technology Co. Ltd. Z170-HD3-CF

 

I'm open to any suggestions if you think I need to upgrade something else first or go for a different graphics card altogether. I have not overclocked my CPU as I don't really know what to do. Thanks.

depends on the games you play, short answer is the cpu is def a bottleneck and at current prices you wanna look at either the 2060, radeon vii or 2080, not the 2070.

 

if you are on a tight budget and the monitor isn't anything too special, sell/return it and go for a 1080p/144hz VA panel instead and run a 2060 with it. Even a 2080 will not run some AAA games on 1440p/144hz on high.

[Bs1234]

Cool thanks guys!