will a i7 3770k bottleneck a gtx 1070 ti

[tophercrunch]

was looking at a couple different options a Zotac gtx 980 ti or a Zotac gtx 1070 ti and wanted to know with a 3rd gen i7 bottleneck my system

[Mira Yurizaki]

It depends on whether the game performs better with more cores or is sensitive to single core performance. If the games you're planning currently peg the CPU at 100%, there's a good chance of a bottleneck.

[Sir0Tek]

That depends on the game and your preferences for resolution and so on. You can expect reduced fps to some degree generally but usually it does quite well.

I7 3770... that's usually 3.5ghz to 3.9ghz, but you do use OC, I assume?

[tophercrunch]

I hear games that bottleneck the cpu, what kind of games are really cpu demanding ? @Mira Yurizaki

[Mira Yurizaki]

Just now, tophercrunch said:

I hear games that bottleneck the cpu, what kind of games are really cpu demanding ?

Modern open world games, large scale real-time strategy games, and games that use a bad implementation of Denuvo come to mind.

[tophercrunch]

1 minute ago, Sir0Tek said:

That depends on the game and your preferences for resolution and so on. You can expect reduced fps to some degree generally but usually it does quite well.

I7 3770... that's usually 3.5ghz to 3.9ghz, but you do use OC, I assume?

Yes, with air cooler i got it to 4.6, i don't want to go to high to kill off my cpu faster

[tophercrunch]

3 minutes ago, Sir0Tek said:

That depends on the game and your preferences for resolution and so on. You can expect reduced fps to some degree generally but usually it does quite well.

I7 3770... that's usually 3.5ghz to 3.9ghz, but you do use OC, I assume?

i'm looking at a 1080p 144 hrz monitor 27''

[Boyohan]

8 minutes ago, tophercrunch said:

was looking at a couple different options a Zotac gtx 980 ti or a Zotac gtx 1070 ti and wanted to know with a 3rd gen i7 bottleneck my system

Depends on type of game and what monitor you are playing on. 

 

My kids have a 3770K with a RX580 and that does easily 1080p/60hz in all games on high but Im not sure if it could do 1440p/60hz

Edit... I have OCed their CPU to 4,4ghz all core.

[tophercrunch]

1 minute ago, Boyohan said:

Depends on type of game and what monitor you are playing on. 

 

My kids have a 3770K with a RX580 and that does easily 1080p/60hz in all games on high but Im not sure if it could do 1440p/60hz

its a 1080p 144hrz 27''

[tophercrunch]

9 minutes ago, Boyohan said:

Depends on type of game and what monitor you are playing on. 

 

My kids have a 3770K with a RX580 and that does easily 1080p/60hz in all games on high but Im not sure if it could do 1440p/60hz

Edit... I have OCed their CPU to 4,4ghz all core.

how do you like the Acer Predator ?

[Sir0Tek]

4 minutes ago, tophercrunch said:

Yes, with air cooler i got it to 4.6, i don't want to go to high to kill off my cpu faster

My non-k is at <4.5ghz on air, only +0.05v increase in voltages so it does stay quite cool.

Higher resolutions are more demanding to the gpu but 1080p should work quite well anyways, with both cards mentioned. But, having a 144hz display isn't very useful here I guess, you'd like to reach or exceed 144fps as well?

[Boyohan]

2 minutes ago, tophercrunch said:

its a 1080p 144hrz 27''

From my experience the 3770K is still decent (especially with a medium level OC).

I believe a 3770K + 1070ti could easily do +100fps in a lot of games at 1080p. 

You may struggle to get +100fps in the most modern games so that is to be expected with a 8yo CPU and a 3yo GPU. 

[tophercrunch]

5 minutes ago, Sir0Tek said:

My non-k is at <4.5ghz on air, only +0.05v increase in voltages so it does stay quite cool.

Higher resolutions are more demanding to the gpu but 1080p should work quite well anyways, with both cards mentioned. But, having a 144hz display isn't very useful here I guess, you'd like to reach or exceed 144fps as well?

your cpu is locked, how are you overclocking it ? What are you using ?

[tophercrunch]

Just now, tophercrunch said:

your cpu is locked, how are you overclocking it ? What are you using ?

Also 144hrz will improve refresh rate while running at 1080p 

[Boyohan]

3 minutes ago, tophercrunch said:

how do you like the Acer Predator ?

It works

It performs as I expected it would so I don't really have much to say about it but it is pretty great. 

My old monitor was a 27" 1080p/60hz PLS monitor so it was a huge improvement while gaming.

I could never go back to 60hz while gaming.

I still use my old monitor as a secondary screen for Spotify, Youtube while im gaming . 

[Sir0Tek]

 

4 minutes ago, tophercrunch said:

Also 144hrz will improve refresh rate while running at 1080p 

144hz is the very refresh rate.

[Boyohan]

9 minutes ago, Sir0Tek said:

My non-k is at <4.5ghz on air, only +0.05v increase in voltages so it does stay quite cool.

Higher resolutions are more demanding to the gpu but 1080p should work quite well anyways, with both cards mentioned. But, having a 144hz display isn't very useful here I guess, you'd like to reach or exceed 144fps as well?

 

2 minutes ago, tophercrunch said:

your cpu is locked, how are you overclocking it ? What are you using ?

I was thinking the same...

 

[Sir0Tek]

7 minutes ago, tophercrunch said:

your cpu is locked, how are you overclocking it ? What are you using ?

P8P67. It got 103.5mhz fsb and partial overclock, max multiplier is 43.

[tophercrunch]

1 minute ago, Boyohan said:

It works

It performs as I expected it would so I don't really have much to say about it but it is pretty great. 

My old monitor was a 27" 1080p/60hz PLS monitor so it was a huge improvement while gaming.

I could never go back to 60hz while gaming.

I still use my old monitor as a secondary screen for Spotify, Youtube while im gaming . 

Nice, i was looking at that one, but a little out of my price range. I found a nice Asus model though

[Boyohan]

Just now, tophercrunch said:

Nice, i was looking at that one, but a little out of my price range. I found a nice Asus model though

I think you did the right choice to go for a 1080p/144hz instead of 1440p/60hz 

[tophercrunch]

3 minutes ago, Boyohan said:

I think you did the right choice to go for a 1080p/144hz instead of 1440p/60hz 

Thanks ! I did a little bit of researching it yesterday. Should get longer life out of card, which i might give to my older son when i can do another build or go with a gaming laptop.

[Mick Naughty]

Almost any modern title in the past couple years would be too much for that cpu and that card. Even at 3k. 

[Sir0Tek]

7 minutes ago, Mick Naughty said:

Almost any modern title in the past couple years would be too much for that cpu and that card. Even at 3k. 

This is a somewhat unnecessary and wrong remark. Imho it doesn't add anything substantial to the thread, far from.

[tophercrunch]

5 minutes ago, Mick Naughty said:

Almost any modern title in the past couple years would be too much for that cpu and that card. Even at 3k. 

Really, my current setup is that cpu and a gtx 670 and i run metro exodus on medium settings at 1080p . You really think a gtx 1070 ti and my cpu overclocked won't handle it

[Mick Naughty]

1 minute ago, tophercrunch said:

Really, my current setup is that cpu and a gtx 670 and i run metro exodus on medium settings at 1080p . You really think a gtx 1070 ti and my cpu overclocked won't handle it

Depends on what you mean by handle. 
If all cores of the cpu are maxed and the game is a little laggy and get less frames, are you ok with that?