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4 minutes ago, Koujimaru said:

I am planning to buy either a 1070/1080. I have an i5 4670k OCed to 4.5Ghz. 
Is it still good to go without performance issues or should I get a new CPU with the new GPU?

The CPU bottlenecking depends on what you're doing. A lot of games are inefficient AF these days and basically require an i7 to get the most out of them but if your games are truly optimized then the i5 is fine.

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6 minutes ago, Koujimaru said:

I am planning to buy either a 1070/1080. I have an i5 4670k OCed to 4.5Ghz. 
Is it still good to go without performance issues or should I get a new CPU with the new GPU?

your CPU is perfectly fine.

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CPU is fine for another generation or two. 

 

Edit: Son's 4690 is still getting 100+ fps 1080 Ultra in most games with his 1070.

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8 hours ago, Koujimaru said:

I am planning to buy either a 1070/1080. I have an i5 4670k OCed to 4.5Ghz. 
Is it still good to go without performance issues or should I get a new CPU with the new GPU?

It will bottleneck a 1080 at some degree. Only the Intel's skylake line i7 is capable of pushing most of the juice out of a gtx 1080, but even that will bottleneck a little bit in some demanding areas in some games.

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