Bottlenecking

[DylBear802]

Hi everyone,

I currently have a Zotac Geforce 1070ti GPU and the processor is an Intel 7th gen I7700K. I was looking into upgrading my motherboard and processor as well as upgrading from 16 gigs of ram to 32. The processor i wanted to get is an I9 9900K. With my graphics card I know i will bottleneck, but how bad? Is this worth the upgrade or will I see no results?

Thank you

[MadAnt250]

Use?

[SkilledRebuilds]

23 minutes ago, DylBear802 said:

Hi everyone,

I currently have a Zotac Geforce 1070ti GPU and the processor is an Intel 7th gen I7700K. I was looking into upgrading my motherboard and processor as well as upgrading from 16 gigs of ram to 32. The processor i wanted to get is an I9 9900K. With my graphics card I know i will bottleneck, but how bad? Is this worth the upgrade or will I see no results?

Thank you

If you work with VIDEO, or any major multi-tasking CPU load,.you'll see a decent improvement to exporting time,.. that's for sure.
Gaming,.. the minimums will be boosted, while your averages as well, from the frequency and core increase, but you'll still be GPU bound, but possibly with an extra few frames on average with those better minimums.
 

The 1070Ti even GPU bound should have a smoother experience due to the CPU backend in Multicore aware games.

[DylBear802]

35 minutes ago, MadAnt250 said:

Use?

I'm new to this I guess I don't know what you mean by use and what I should be looking at

[MadAnt250]

21 minutes ago, DylBear802 said:

I guess I don't know what you mean by use

What is the use case?

[DylBear802]

19 minutes ago, MadAnt250 said:

What is the use case?

Oh okay, pretty much just for gaming which the other guy said would have some okay improvements. I stream sometimes too. I pretty much wanted to make sure their were no negatives because I will eventually upgrade the GPU

[DylBear802]

1 hour ago, SkilledRebuilds said:

If you work with VIDEO, or any major multi-tasking CPU load,.you'll see a decent improvement to exporting time,.. that's for sure.
Gaming,.. the minimums will be boosted, while your averages as well, from the frequency and core increase, but you'll still be GPU bound, but possibly with an extra few frames on average with those better minimums.
 

The 1070Ti even GPU bound should have a smoother experience due to the CPU backend in Multicore aware games.

Makes sense, i stream sometimes but mostly just game with friends. I just wanted to make sure there would be no negative drawbacks to doing this becasue I will eventually upgrade the GPU

[MadAnt250]

5 minutes ago, DylBear802 said:

I pretty much wanted to make sure their were no negatives because I will eventually upgrade the GPU

In gaming the GPU may hold your performance back but you plain on upgrading the GPU so I would not worry. But why a i9 9900k and not an i7 9700k or an i7 10700k since you are going buying a new board? IMO, You could put the money you save towards a better graphics card and other stuff.

[DylBear802]

26 minutes ago, MadAnt250 said:

In gaming the GPU may hold your performance back but you plain on upgrading the GPU so I would not worry. But why a i9 9900k and not an i7 9700k or an i7 10700k since you are going buying a new board? IMO, You could put the money you save towards a better graphics card and other stuff.

will i see better results out of the eighth generation processors than I would out of my seventh gen?
 

[Dedayog]

1 hour ago, DylBear802 said:

I'm new to this I guess I don't know what you mean by use and what I should be looking at

For gaming, the 9900K isn't much of an upgrade over the 7700K.

 

OC the 7700K and enjoy the machine for another generation.  Things are stacking at the top  end.  

 

They're all packing at the 5GHz+ level, and the 7700K can hang with the 9900K (or any of them) currently.  IMO, not worth upgrading for gaming.  Which I assume is what you're talking about, as you're worried about bottlenecking.

 

 

 

[DylBear802]

3 minutes ago, Dedayog said:

For gaming, the 9900K isn't much of an upgrade over the 7700K.

 

OC the 7700K and enjoy the machine for another generation.  Things are stacking at the top  end.  

 

They're all packing at the 5GHz+ level, and the 7700K can hang with the 9900K (or any of them) currently.  IMO, not worth upgrading for gaming.  Which I assume is what you're talking about, as you're worried about bottlenecking.

 

 

 

Thanks for the feedback, do you think that i should instead upgrade the GPU or would it potentially be worth getting a second 1070TI? This isn't anything i necessarily need I know but I'm trying to figure out how to upgrade my computer to make it more of an absolute beefy build

 

[Dedayog]

6 minutes ago, DylBear802 said:

Thanks for the feedback, do you think that i should instead upgrade the GPU or would it potentially be worth getting a second 1070TI? This isn't anything i necessarily need I know but I'm trying to figure out how to upgrade my computer to make it more of an absolute beefy build

 

First, don't do SLI until you research each and every game that benefits from it.  Read: not many.  It's not worth it in today's climate.

 

Second, if you want a beefy build, scrap the entire thing and go 9900K/3900X + 2080 Super/2080Ti.  

 

Third, if you want a machine that will rock any game in 1080p for your enjoyment and love of gaming... keep what you have.  

 

Figure out what you REALLY want, then go for it.  But for gaming... what you have is more than enough for 1080p and even 1440p.