Recommended CPU for a 970

[woox]

I was wondering if guys could suggest for me a decent CPU for a Gigabyte GTX 970. I am trying to avoid bottlenecks as much as possible, but I am not sure if it's worth it going all the way for an i7.

 

Thanks in advance.

[Interfectorem]

Any Haswell i5 will suit you well, the best i5 being the i5-4690K which is overclock-able.

[woox]

thanks a lot!

[LiamApex]

5960x

[Mao_Zedong]

5960x

The 5930k would perform better than that and cost $500 less.

 

OT: get a 4690k, or if you need to spend less, whatever is the cheapest i5 at the time.

[woox]

5960x

riiiiight

[JoaoPRSousa]

Give us a budget for the WHOLE build.

[Opcode]

The 5930k would perform better than that and cost $500 less.

 

OT: get a 4690k, or if you need to spend less, whatever is the cheapest i5 at the time.

To be honest both would be throwing money out the window. A i5-4690k alone at stock will push a GTX 970 to it's performance wall.

[Mao_Zedong]

To be honest both would be throwing money out the window. A i5-4690k alone at stock will push a GTX 970 to it's performance wall.

I know, I was saying that a 5960x is worthless for gaming, no matter what else you have because the 5930k is better and cheaper. The 5820k is a decent value if you have sli 980s or higher or also want to do some video editing or other productivity.

[Mush Brain]

Pentium 4 HT

[Mush Brain]

I know, I was saying that a 5960x is worthless for gaming, no matter what else you have because the 5930k is better and cheaper. The 5820k is a decent value if you have sli 980s or higher or also want to do some video editing or other productivity.

5930K is not better at all.

[RicMX3]

Haswell i5 is the best choice for gaming, with 1 or 2 video card

 

 

 

5930K is not better at all.

 

 

I know, I was saying that a 5960x is worthless for gaming, no matter what else you have because the 5930k is better and cheaper. The 5820k is a decent value if you have sli 980s or higher or also want to do some video editing or other productivity.

 

 

The 5820K with 28lanes will give the same amount of performance as the 5930K in gaming with 1 or 2 or 3 card in SLI/Crossfire / 3ways Solution. The difference in performance between 8X GEN3 and 16X GEN3 are very small, not worth to speak about that on current generation of video card.

 

The 5930K with 40lanes will be a + if you have multiple video card + PCI-Express stuff like SSD or Raid card, or if you want to do 4ways configuration with benchmark / 4K performance etc

 

And the 5960X is only the choice for productivity, otherwise it's a waste of money and might not overclock as far as the 5820K/5930K, less clock speed could equal to less performance in most games.

[Raxzer]

The i5-4690K is the definite answer. Almost no need to discuss that.

 

Great price to performance, gaming performance identical/comparable to the high-end HT-processors.

 

Spending more money won't net you anything in return. You'll litterally be spending money on something you won't be able to take advantage of.

[Matt255]

i5 4690k