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Cpu bottleneck 1070?

dkono
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Hi everyone. I wasn't sure if I should post this here or in the cpu section, but I just have a quick question. A buddy of mine currently has an fx6300 and gtx 960. His birthday is coming up and I wanted to get him a gtx 1070. However, is that a bad idea? Will the cpu bottleneck the gpu that much? In what ways? If it is that bad, what would be a good upgrade? Other details are 8gb of ram, 600watt psu, and he games at 1080p.Thank you in advance! 

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Most likely. A 1070 will likely be redundant at 1080p as well unless it's a high refresh rate monitor. 

 

This is, of course, if we are to believe the alleged Titan X - like (or greater) performance of it.

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3 minutes ago, dkono said:

Hi everyone. I wasn't sure if I should post this here or in the cpu section, but I just have a quick question. A buddy of mine currently has an fx6300 and gtx 960. His birthday is coming up and I wanted to get him a gtx 1070. However, is that a bad idea? Will the cpu bottleneck the gpu that much? In what ways? If it is that bad, what would be a good upgrade? Other details are 8gb of ram, 600watt psu, and he games at 1080p.Thank you in advance! 

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14 minutes ago, dkono said:

His birthday is coming up and I wanted to get him a gtx 1070

I could use a buddy like you lol

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Get your friend a 1440p monitor . Break him away from 1080p.

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