i5 Bottleneck

[PlumpPear]

I was wondering whether or not an i5 would bottleneck high end gpu's such as a 680, 690, or the new titan. I was looking in to getting a titan due to the fact i am working all summer, and am currently building a system, and wondering whether or not to get an i5 or i7.

Ps i am getting an asus sabertooth z77 motherboard.

[Whaler_99]

Which i5? Sandy Bridge version is PCI-e Express v2. Ivy Bridge supports PCI-e Express v3. So you would definately want to get with the Ivy Bridge version to get full use. After that, no, the CPU shouldn't bottleneck you. Just make sure you also use quality memory and a SSD for your boot drive.

[PlumpPear]

Yes i will be getting the ivy bridge and i have corsair dominator 16gig 1600mhz memory with an ocz agility 4 256gig ssd.

[Whaler_99]

Should be good to go...

[hiyayhi]

The i5 will bottleneck the 690 and titan or any other high end dual GPU set up.

Trust me a heap of people don't believe me but I have a HD 6990 that is bottlenecked.

[PcBlackBelt]

yeah i5 will bottleneck but not very bad i have a i7 2600k oc'd 4.5ghz and dual gtx 580s and my gpus run around 60-80% playing battlefield 3 multiplayer.

but i still get no less then 80 fps... far cry it was reverse where my graphics cards were the bottleneck as far cry 3 was very well optimized for multiple threads.... so it will always be a toss up whether your cpu or graphics card will be your bottleneck.... if your gonna spend a bunch of cash on graphics cards dont cheap out on the processor.... theres not alot you can do though right now without spending a grand on a intel xtreme processor... and you would still have some bottleneck depending the game and how many threads it fully utilizes.

if far cry 3 is a taste of what is to come 4 cores with hyperthreading or 6 cores might be the way to go but if i was gonna spend that much money on a graphics card it would be wise to wait for haswell if its everything it should be you would be getting 120+ frames as much as a single monitor could need cause its realy not anything to worry about when your bottleneck is capping your frames at 150+ fps.

ive been playin fps shooters since i was 11 on pc im now 27 and just now realizing how much more fun games are with the graphics on a lower setting so theres less "lag" all post processing affects add it to wear you move your mouse to aim and stop and it takes a few extra milliseconds for the screen to catch up.

in hindsight now that i play more competitively i could have made do with a single 570 as i never play fps's online with the graphics turned up.... but it is a good feeling to be able to turn all the graphics up and take in the insane graphics they have these days without worrying bout droppin below 60 frames.

another game that relyed too much on cpu and only used a couple threads was assassins creed three it was freakin nerve wracking watching my graphics card barely goin over 50% most the time....

just my two cents. if your struggling in a fps online turn your graphics down especaily post processing affects like aa and hbao n all that cool stuff you will have a much more level playing feild as most good online players will be playing there game on lower settings so there not at a disadvantage... single player can even be harder to aim as well if everything up all the way dont take my word for it though.... go back and fourth from highest settings to lowest settings everything feels so damn responsive... you can find a happy medium as well...

[DDR3RAMpager]

i would say go for an i5 3570k an overclock that biatch

[Fordox]

an overclock is allways better but your i5 wont bottleneck. not even in pcie 2.0. these things are highly overrated.

ofcourse, a better cpu will do his job better, but it wont matter a lot.

@hiyayhi @PcBlackBelt

your gpu's are limited by the drivers. sli and crossfire won't scale perfectly in all situations. it isn't a cpu limit. try downloading the latest drivers AND profiles ;) but still after that, some of the scaling can still be rubbish.

[Maverik5124]

Also if the i5 3570k bottlenecks you then upgrading to the i7 3770k will not help at all. The only thing different is that the i7 has hyperthreading and this will not help at all in games. There are benchmarks to confirm this, too tired to google for a link right now

[armenianDRAGON]

honestly, if i were you i wouldn't get an i5. if you are really building an extreme rig (titan suggests it) than you should get an extreme class CPU. Srsly don't do things half way, if going full out, go full out.

[PcBlackBelt]

its a fact.... cpu can bottleneck a high end card! a fact.... on games more cpu intensive it will granted you will still be getting realy nice fps...

its completely irresponsible to tell someone you know for a fact that the cpu is never a bottleneck with games... thats not true in the slightest...

i5 most certainly will bottleneck some games. does the bottleneck leave you with a good framerate yes! its not that it pushes your cpu to 100% on all cores its the single thread performance that stands in the way of things and "Bottlenecks"

there is always a bottleneck and its not always the gpu and can be the cpu when using a fast gpu and multiplayer games like bf3.

[mgsstar]

It depends on what games you are playing. If you playing some games that are cpu intensive then it will bottleneck, but if you are playing some GPU intensive game like BF3, it could bottleneck your GPU. But going with an i5 3570k should be fine if you are gaming.

[DDR3RAMpager]

its a fact.... cpu can bottleneck a high end card! a fact.... on games more cpu intensive it will granted you will still be getting realy nice fps...

its completely irresponsible to tell someone you know for a fact that the cpu is never a bottleneck with games... thats not true in the slightest...

i5 most certainly will bottleneck some games. does the bottleneck leave you with a good framerate yes! its not that it pushes your cpu to 100% on all cores its the single thread performance that stands in the way of things and "Bottlenecks"

there is always a bottleneck and its not always the gpu and can be the cpu when using a fast gpu and multiplayer games like bf3.

there should be very little bottlenecking if you get a high end i5 and overclock it :)

[PlumpPear]

Most of what I will be doing is playing some high end games such as the Crysis series, but also games like League of Legends and other less graphic intensive games. However I will be doing some mild video editing, photoshop, and other adobe suite work.