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Unless you're planning on playing your games past 180 FPS, you'll be just fine. You might be at a disadvantage of a couple FPS versus a faster i5-6500, but Haswell i5's are still perfectly capable of pulling their weight. With the 1070, you'll probably be playing at 1440p, anyway.

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I understand that bottlenecking is not as big of a deal as many people make it out to be. However, I am currently using an i5 4440 and planning to upgrade to the 1070, and I'm curios to see how much this would impact performance. Does anyone know about how much performance might be lost, if any at all? Just looking at benchmarks, there would be no performance improvement by upgrading to the top of the line haswell to remain on my current mobo/ram, so in order to upgrade I would need to change some other components as well.

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Nah, no need to upgrade, it probably won't bottleneck but if it does then no more than 5% I would say as the 4440 is clocked a tiny bit low but perfectly suitable :) 

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no it should be fine 

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Unless you're planning on playing your games past 180 FPS, you'll be just fine. You might be at a disadvantage of a couple FPS versus a faster i5-6500, but Haswell i5's are still perfectly capable of pulling their weight. With the 1070, you'll probably be playing at 1440p, anyway.

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There is 0 possibility of this GPU bottle necking your CPU. Whilst your CPU MAY hinder performance in comparison to your GPU, it wont force your GPU to utalize less than 100% of its potential.

Jay has an amazing video on this if you want to understand more about what i'm saying

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23 minutes ago, Zyndo said:

There is 0 possibility of this GPU bottle necking your CPU. Whilst your CPU MAY hinder performance in comparison to your GPU, it wont force your GPU to utalize less than 100% of its potential.

Jay has an amazing video on this if you want to understand more about what i'm saying

I saw it m80, I just was not sure of the difference in performance between generations, rather than within the same generation like he was testing

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