6700 XT paired with a i7 4770?

[doomsriker]

I am looking at getting a used 6700 xt for $235 USD but I wanted to make sure that my i7 4770 won’t be too much of a bottleneck at 1440P until I can upgrade my CPU. Thank you for your help!! 

[Blqckqut]

it will be a massive bottleneck

[Blqckqut]

5 minutes ago, doomsriker said:

I am looking at getting a used 6700 xt for $235 USD but I wanted to make sure that my i7 4770 won’t be too much of a bottleneck at 1440P until I can upgrade my CPU. Thank you for your help!! 

get the gpu anyways, 235 is the deal of a lifetime, like getting a 3080 for 400 bucks

[191x7]

7 minutes ago, doomsriker said:

I am looking at getting a used 6700 xt for $235 USD but I wanted to make sure that my i7 4770 won’t be too much of a bottleneck at 1440P until I can upgrade my CPU. Thank you for your help!! 

A huge bottleneck, making the 6700XT work as an RX 580. 

Do it if you're going to upgrade your platform soon. If not, spend the money on the platform first.

[doomsriker]

10 minutes ago, Blqckout said:

get the gpu anyways, 235 is the deal of a lifetime, like getting a 3080 for 400 bucks

Yea, I was thinking it seems like a good buy. I think it will make sense. As long as I wont be bottlnecking things down to a slide show I think I’ll be happy. 

[Somerandomtechyboi]

10 minutes ago, Blqckout said:

get the gpu anyways, 235 is the deal of a lifetime, like getting a 3080 for 400 bucks

^^^

btw what mobo and what rams? You can alleviate cpu bottleneck by overclocking

 

 

if you got a Z board then theres bclk and ram clocking

 

A B board just flash that to a Z board, same for Hx7 boards, if you use gigabyte you are out of luck cause no spi header

 

An Hx1 not sure, did get a z87m plus bios working on my h81m-e but dont got an unlocked cpu to test if i can raise multi

[doomsriker]

12 minutes ago, Somerandomtechyboi said:

^^^

btw what mobo and what rams? You can alleviate cpu bottleneck by overclocking

 

 

if you got a Z board then theres bclk and ram clocking

 

A B board just flash that to a Z board, same for Hx7 boards, if you use gigabyte you are out of luck cause no spi header

 

An Hx1 not sure, did get a z87m plus bios working on my h81m-e but dont got an unlocked cpu to test if i can raise multi

It’s a ASUS Maximous vi extreme. The ram is a bit of a mixed bag. 2 matched 8gb sticks running at 1600 and then 2 mismatched running at 1333 so it is all clocked down to 1333. Honestly I got the extra ram for like 5$ a piece so I decided to go for the 32GB at the lower speed. 

[Somerandomtechyboi]

16 minutes ago, doomsriker said:

It’s a ASUS Maximous vi extreme. The ram is a bit of a mixed bag. 2 matched 8gb sticks running at 1600 and then 2 mismatched running at 1333 so it is all clocked down to 1333. Honestly I got the extra ram for like 5$ a piece so I decided to go for the 32GB at the lower speed. 

I was definitely not expecting a maximus vi to be your board thats for sure

 

Could you take a thaiphoon burner screenshot of all your different rams? Might be able to overclock them still, you are running quad rank so i wouldnt expect much more than 2400 even if you max out vccsa/io (1.45v)

 

Also whats the average price that your board and cpu go for locally? Might be worth selling them off and buying used ryzen instead, ddr4 8gb bare pcb 2133-2666 go <15$ nowadays even in indo so buying one with good ram ics such as micron rev e (d9vpp - c9bjz) or samsung k4a8g085wd (d die) and will do 4000+ with ease

[xAcid9]

Depend on game and game settings.

 

Guild Wars 2? LoL? Dota 2? CS:GO?

Huge bottleneck.

 

Atomic Heart? COH3? Hunt: Showdown? Kingdom Come? Forza Horizon 4/5?

Not so much especially at higher quality setting. 

 

Just get the 6700 XT if you think the card is in good condition. 

[aledsav1]

good price get the card regardless

[8tg]

This will depend a lot on what game you’re playing because a lot of games won’t have any issue with the 4770, though super cpu bound games will.

Cyberpunk 2077 as an example should see minimal impact from the 4770, it will hold the gpu back a little but nothing extreme.

CSGO you’re going to see the cpu pegged at 100% with the gpu barely doing anything.

 

As for how much it matters? Ehh, not a lot. If you get the performance you want out of the system you’re fine. And later you can upgrade to a new platform with a new cpu and ddr4 and an nvme SSD and all that stuff and have a more balanced experience. But for now if you’re just down to do the gpu upgrade, that’s a decent deal on that card.

[ewitte]

One thing to note is AMD cards have less CPU driver overhead.  The big issue is anything written for 8 threads.  

[SteveGrabowski0]

18 hours ago, 191x7 said:

A huge bottleneck, making the 6700XT work as an RX 580. 

Do it if you're going to upgrade your platform soon. If not, spend the money on the platform first.

Disagree, I ran a 1660 Super with a Xeon E3-1231v3, which is an i7-4770 minus 100 MHz, until last May and it ran quite a bit better than benches for RX 580 with modern cpus for most games even at 1080p much less 1440p. It's a bottleneck for sure but it's not like RX 6700 XT is a 1440p 100+ fps gpu for hard to run games.

[SteveGrabowski0]

I think it's almost sure that you won't see a $250 card this year than can touch the 6700 XT's performance, and AMD is definitely where you want to go when cpu bound since their DX12 drivers have a lot less overhead than Nvidia's (funny because it was reversed on DX11). Though still I'd want to upgrade that cpu as soon as you can. I ran a Xeon E3-1231v3 which is virtually the same cpu as the i7-4770 and it bottlenecked even my GTX 1660 Super really hard in Elden Ring at 1080p to the point of getting slowdown, though that was at launch and maybe it's better now? Cyberpunk it bottlenecked my 1660 Super at 1080p to force me to turn crowds to medium for example. But for the most part it was still pretty solid for 60 fps gaming.

 

Still, a platform upgrade is really cheap right now if you have the money to do it too. Ryzen 5 5600 for $130 and a 2x16GB DDR4-3200 kit for $65 is ridiculously good value and would give you a nicely balanced system with a 6700 XT. And the 6700 XT is pretty nice for 1440p, loving using mine (but with an i5-12400F now) for gaming on a 4k monitor, usually using 1440p or 1800p FSR/RSR. Enormous upgrade that felt night and day better than the 1660 Super I was using before for 1080p gaming on that 4k monitor.