question about upgrading

[dalizardking]

Hello forums, currently I'm running a i7 8700k with a gtx 1080, and a z370-e motherboard. ive had it for a while now and now im looking to upgrade. I was thinking of getting a 4060 TI and just keeping the same CPU. A friend told me something about bottlenecking, is that something i need to worry about? do i need to upgrade my cpu too? 

[Hinjima]

9 minutes ago, dalizardking said:

Hello forums, currently I'm running a i7 8700k with a gtx 1080, and a z370-e motherboard. ive had it for a while now and now im looking to upgrade. I was thinking of getting a 4060 TI and just keeping the same CPU. A friend told me something about bottlenecking, is that something i need to worry about? do i need to upgrade my cpu too? 

Hi and welcome to the Forum, glad to have you with us

The i7 8700k is an old CPU and there will be some CPU bottleneck but not enough to cause concern.  Here is a video going over 5 generations of Intel CPU's with an RTX 3090.  The 8700k keeps up surprisingly well in gaming!  I timestamped it right at the start of the gaming benchmarks.
You can keep the 8700k for now and maybe upgrade later if you want. You will see a very nice increase in FPS with the 4060ti even on the 8700k.

 

[dalizardking]

thank you so much! i really appreciate this