GTX 1070 or i7 4790K

[markoBiceps]

Hi, I am planning to upgrade my computer in june/july and i thought if i should upgrade my GTX 960 to GTX 1070 or my i5 4460 to i7 4790K. I mostly play games like The Witcher 3 and other AAA-Games on 1920x1080 Resolution. I also thought that would i5 4460 bottleneck GTX 1070. This is my computer and setup atm: http://pcpartpicker.com/user/markoBiceps/saved/4rmcCJ

[Tedster]

1 minute ago, markoBiceps said:

Hi, I am planning to upgrade my computer in june/july and i thought if i should upgrade my GTX 960 to GTX 1070 or my i5 4460 to i7 4790K. I mostly play games like The Witcher 3 and other AAA-Games on 1920x1080 Resolution. I also thought that would i5 4460 bottleneck GTX 1070. This is my computer and setup atm: http://pcpartpicker.com/user/markoBiceps/saved/4rmcCJ

Welcome to the Forum!

 

If you're mainly going to be gaming, upgrade the GPU.

[VeeTeePee]

How about we wait until benchmarks for the 1070/1080 are released? That sounds like a good idea.  

[markoBiceps]

1 minute ago, VeeTeePee said:

How about we wait until benchmarks for the 1070/1080 are released? That sounds like a good idea.  

You could be right.

[Tedster]

1 minute ago, VeeTeePee said:

How about we wait until benchmarks for the 1070/1080 are released? That sounds like a good idea.  

I think we're mostly confident that they're pretty awesome already.

[mikat]

the 1070 looks like a good idea, the i5-4460 should be able to handle it (maybe not on GTA V) but we don't know for sure yet

[adamsjus1]

I would jump on a 1070. That would be a large improvment. but for cpu for gaming i would wait tell you could get a whole new board and ram to get the 6600k. 

[79wjd]

2 minutes ago, Tedster said:

I think we're mostly confident that they're pretty awesome already.

It would still be silly not to wait for Polaris to be announced to see what it is. (especially if one already has a working setup)

[Alexzz_]

definitely wait for the benchmarks of both pascal and Polaris. then i would choose the best gpu because you are mainly going to be gaming

[DioOmicida]

The i5, even a 4460 is a great chip.
IMO upgrading your gpu will benefit you more than the cpu.
But, as stated, we really need to see true benchmarks of the 10xx cards.

[markoBiceps]

And what do u guys think of my PSU? Could it handle GTX 1070 with all that other crap i have in my pc?

[DarkRuskov]

the cpu will probably not even bottleneck a 1080 in games, so definetly go for the gpu upgrade. BUT first of all you might want to wait for the benchmarks even if the cards seem good and secondly if you're playing in 1080p the 960 is already very good, so think, are you really ready to spend hundreds of dollars for a very small gain (unless you get a much better monitor).

[Kryptyx]

Get the 1070, you don't really need benchmarks to know that it will be much better than the 960. The 4460 will be good for some time, I wouldn't worry about a bottleneck. Also remember that with the newer cards there is less and less of a CPU bottleneck. Of course this depends on the type of game but for the most part you should be good.

[markoBiceps]

51 minutes ago, DarkRuskov said:

the cpu will probably not even bottleneck a 1080 in games, so definetly go for the gpu upgrade. BUT first of all you might want to wait for the benchmarks even if the cards seem good and secondly if you're playing in 1080p the 960 is already very good, so think, are you really ready to spend hundreds of dollars for a very small gain (unless you get a much better monitor).

I am actually planning on getting 1440p monitor or atleast higher than 1080p.

[DarkRuskov]

On 10/5/2016 at 4:36 PM, markoBiceps said:

I am actually planning on getting 1440p monitor or atleast higher than 1080p.

I would suggest that you get the monitor first or at the same time.

[Marine8907]

If you plan on gaming on a larger resolution then go with the new GPU when it comes to the market. Otherwise, go with the 4790K. You will not go wrong with that CPU. And just saying, anyone who plays at 1080p with a 9xx GPU or later, you are screwing yourself out of your money. Those GPUs run better at 1440p or higher compared to other cards and can easily handle the higher resolutions. Why not go for it since panels are relatively cheap now for 1440p and 4K UHD.