i5 4690k with a 750 Ti? Bottlenecking?

[LordPugIII]

Hi there all,

 

I have one quick question that I really need answering.

 

I have an i5-4690k processor. I really want a new GPU and so have been looking at 750 Ti's. 

 

I have also been looking into the 'bottleneck' thing. Will these two components have any sort of extreme bottleneck issues or will there be minor performance issues.

 

I do apologize if this is worded really badly but the point I am trying to get across is that will a 750 Ti be ok with an i5-4690k processor or will there be very significant performance loss due to bottlenecking?

 

Cheers, all the best,

 

LordPugIII.

[don_svetlio]

Your GPU will bottleneck the CPU heavily

[Badazzz]

I wouldn't call it a bottleneck... since both pieces of hardware would be running at their full potetial. But you should probably get a better GPU.

[MEC-777]

The 750Ti won't bottleneck the CPU, it will be the bottleneck of the whole system where gaming performance in concerned. 

[Paralectic]

3 minutes ago, don_svetlio said:

Your GPU will bottleneck the CPU heavily

There's no performance loss, he was talking about a CPU bottleneck obviously.

[trufret]

Unless you only need the GPU power of a 750 TI you could go all the way up to SLI 980 TI's on that chip and still be ok.

[don_svetlio]

Just now, Paralectic said:

There's no performance loss, he was talking about a CPU bottleneck obviously.

The wording was kind of off as to what he wanted to know specifically

[FatalityDiablo]

A G3258 would be a better match for this gpu

[TheGamingBarrel]

9 minutes ago, FatalityDiablo said:

A G3258 would be a better match for this gpu

The G3258 Is a CPU No one should buy apart from benchers. X4 860K or any i3 is better. I would drop 10 FPS If the game stops stuttering and I can do things in the background.

[Jykos]

A "bottle neck" in the sense of a weak component slowing the performance of a stronger component, won't happen. -cpu will be able to operate at full performance.

A "bottle neck" in the sense of just having lower end component compared to the rest of the build, will happen. -gpu is slow so games and other gpu intensive tasks will be slow.

 

A lot of people say bottle neck when they just have a weak component (say an old hardrive in a 980ti build) but what matters is an actual bottle neck where the component doesn't allow another component to perform to its best, say some really slow ddr2 underclocked ram and an i7 4770k.

 

[Inception9269]

12 minutes ago, FatalityDiablo said:

A G3258 would be a better match for this gpu

I disagree heavily. Especially since games are getting to the point where they won't work at all with dual core cpus.

[LordPugIII]

Ok guys, thank you very much for all the help.

 

What would you say about a 960?

 

Cheers.

 

(And yea, I did mean the CPU being bottlenecked by the GPU)

[Guest]

a 4690k isn't going to bottlenecked by any single GPU on the market. 

 

26 minutes ago, Inception9269 said:

I disagree heavily. Especially since games are getting to the point where they won't work at all with dual core cpus.

the level of performance that a 750ti has, this is nearly irrelevant point. 

[FatalityDiablo]

2 hours ago, TheGamingBarrel said:

The G3258 Is a CPU No one should buy apart from benchers. X4 860K or any i3 is better. I would drop 10 FPS If the game stops stuttering and I can do things in the background.

Idk what you're talking about m8, imo the g3258 is a great placeholder and/or simply low budget cpu, which can be a little beast when you OC the hell out of it - something you can't do with i3 cpu models anymore since intel fucked everyone over with their new microcode update for z170 chipset mobos.

[TheGamingBarrel]

6 minutes ago, FatalityDiablo said:

Idk what you're talking about m8, imo the g3258 is a great placeholder and/or simply low budget cpu, which can be a little beast when you OC the hell out of it - something you can't do with i3 cpu models anymore since intel fucked everyone over with their new microcode update for z170 chipset mobos.

Except you can, you can edit microcode, certain boards even include menus to switch in the BIOS,most boards dont ship with latest BIOS, so you can just flash a new one and I run my G3258 at 4.6 24/7, pretty bad chip needs 1.34V, also has the AMAZING haswell FIVR Coupled with intels stock TIM So if you go over 1.35V You get pure lava.

[FatalityDiablo]

57 minutes ago, TheGamingBarrel said:

Except you can, you can edit microcode, certain boards even include menus to switch in the BIOS,most boards dont ship with latest BIOS, so you can just flash a new one and I run my G3258 at 4.6 24/7, pretty bad chip needs 1.34V, also has the AMAZING haswell FIVR Coupled with intels stock TIM So if you go over 1.35V You get pure lava.

I wouldn't know anything about modifying intels microcode, but I do know that I managed to OC my g3258 to stable 4.5ghz at 1.325v and for the basic moba/fps games I needed it for, and I assume the majority of people who buy this cpu play those games, just kicked ass of some i5 and amd equivalents. For the money really I couldn't complain, it is obviously not multitasking capable while gaming, but then again it is half the price of those who could barely multitask in the first place. Im no intel fanboy btw, I don't give two shits about intel, I just liked the idea of an unlocked dual core for the poor party people, despite of their greedy business model.