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Hey guys,

 

So I've recently bought the Asus GTX 970 as my primary graphics card, however I haven't actually upgraded my CPU, mobo or ram in roughly 5 years. Infact I've got an intel i5 2500k CPU with Corsair XMS3 1333 mhz ram! I was just wondering will my Graphcis card be bottle necked purely because it's much newer than the CPU and Ram?

 

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Hey guys,

 

So I've recently bought the Asus GTX 970 as my primary graphics card, however I haven't actually upgraded my CPU, mobo or ram in roughly 5 years. Infact I've got an intel i5 2500k CPU with Corsair XMS3 1333 mhz ram! I was just wondering will my Graphcis card be bottle necked purely because it's much newer than the CPU and Ram?

 

Cheers guys :)

I don't think there would be a bottleneck. 

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Hey guys,

 

So I've recently bought the Asus GTX 970 as my primary graphics card, however I haven't actually upgraded my CPU, mobo or ram in roughly 5 years. Infact I've got an intel i5 2500k CPU with Corsair XMS3 1333 mhz ram! I was just wondering will my Graphcis card be bottle necked purely because it's much newer than the CPU and Ram?

 

Cheers guys :)

No there wouldnt be any bottleneck. RAM does not impact perfomance much, and that CPU is still fine. Some people are still using a first generation (i7 9xx) processor!

 

Nah, do a benchmark and compare it to an i5 4790 and see if there is a score difference.

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Depends on the game and settings....

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Stutters, framedrops, "lag". How to provide detailed information with your "bottleneck" question, as well as a few solutions.

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No there wouldnt be any bottleneck. RAM does not impact perfomance much, and that CPU is still fine. Some people are still using a first generation (i7 9xx) processor!

 

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The 2500k doesn't bottleneck anything in the market.

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The 2500k doesn't bottleneck anything in the market.

 

There is always a benefit to having a faster CPU, you just plain create more drawcalls. From 2500K and up there might be diminishing returns, but a difference is still there. 

 

http://pclab.pl/zdjecia/artykuly/chaostheory/2015/05/w3/charts6/w3n_ultra_cpu.png

 

You still get a good framerate, and you'll mostly saturate the card, but unless you overclock you can surely see a difference between the 4690K and the 2500K. This is even more the case with the Titan X;

 

http://pclab.pl/zdjecia/artykuly/chaostheory/2015/05/w3/charts5/w3tx_ultra_cpu.png

 

Even overclocked the deficit is still 14%. Call that what you will.

Pascal Undervolting topic, get more out of your card with less power!

Why high refreshrate monitors look better even without Freesync/G-sync in one image.
Stutters, framedrops, "lag". How to provide detailed information with your "bottleneck" question, as well as a few solutions.

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